“Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy,”
Not entirely.
“Legal” respect for religious beliefs, as in “freedom of religion” is “a cornerstone of American democracy”, but it does not automatically obtain social respect - one is free to disrespect another’s religion, socially, in the exercise of our own freedom of speech and religion.
If “legal” respect could command by law “social” respect, then there would not be true “freedom of speech and religion”.
But leave it to Clinton and Obama to smear “freedom of religion” to mean what it does not, and subvert it to Islamic law which bans blasphemy - something that has lost any secular commitment to it in the West over the last 200 years.
Islam in the US is sedition.