There are some parts of your argument here that make sense to me. I think we should certainly each be allowed a freedom of thought, and protection from hate crimes and violence.

But I don't believe that all religions are the same thing. There are religions whose scripture is explicit about committing murder and genocide. Islam teaches that infidels should be stoned to death, and there are no small amount of Muslims today who believe that's the word of God. Should these sorts of beliefs be given a pass? Where do you draw the line?

I think Christianity is less heinous in a lot of regards, but the belief that all non-Christians are going to hell isn't one that deserves a pass either. What Christians would do if they had full power in this country scares me a lot. The separation of church and state isn't something that many of our elected politicians believe in. And if law is dictated by Christianity, we end up in a really precarious place as a society. I don't think we should discriminate against the religious, but so many religions preach discriminatory practices themselves. It's not something we can just excuse as "religious freedom" when people hold up "God hates fags" signs and fight against the freedom of others.

There's an extent to which our personally held thoughts should be protected, but when we publicly act on them problems emerge. Religion is unscientific to its very core and shouldn't have any place being taught in schools whatsoever.