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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.
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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.