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I think you need to go back and review what protected classes are and how they work.
The laws are not well written, I think we can agree on that. If you have a position that you can not do or will not do because of your religion you should not take it. But people do and the laws are poorly written so that they are hurting others. 
Businesses should be required to staff so that people can receive the services they need. Fine. Keep your conservative pharmacist. But then you are obligated as a business to provide the required service. 
I have significant doubts if the current political climate can write competent legislation.
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If religion is not a protected class, landlords can say "no atheists allowed", employers can say "must be Christian", and restaurants can say "no Jews".
I feel like at a time when tensions between religions and between the religious and the non-religious are increasing, the last thing we should do is make it easier to foster division. >

I think there is a difference between between being able to say 'I'm a Muslim/Jew/Christian/etc' without fear of discrimination, and being able to say 'I hate gays as a matter of faith'. Seems to me we can protect the former without allowing for the latter. >


I think there is a difference between between being able to say 'I'm a Muslim/Jew/Christian/etc' without fear of discrimination, and being able to say 'I hate gays as a matter of faith'.   

The former is how a "protected class" works for any other group (race/sex/age/etc), religion has rights above and beyond any other protected class, and that's the problem.   
People may say "I hate x because I'm old", but you've never heard of somebody arguing in court that they're allowed to hate x because being old is a protected class. >

I think the issue is OP's use of protected class in their CMV instead of the more broad freedom of religion concept. People very much do try to say they are allowed to discriminate against others because of freedom of religion. People refusing services for gay weddings is the obvious example.