You clearly believe you are smarter than anyone who believes in any religion ever?

Not a chance. The director of the Human Genome Project is a believer, and he's undoubtedly more knowledgeable and smart than I'll ever be. He just happens to have an unjustifiable belief outside of his area of expertise.

Being religious doesn’t mean you must hate gay people

No, but being a member of a religious organization that does is being an accomplice.

and you must hate people who don’t think like how you think.

Nice non-sequitur you got there.

You clearly have some very deep prejudice against people who believe in religion

If thinking they're mistaken and deluded about their god is a prejudice, then I do.

I imagine that you feel very smart and superior to someone who goes to church once a week

Only about my better use of time.

I would rather have a friend that is a christian or a muslim, a hindu or a jew, who also believes in things that are modern and western like acceptance of people of all faiths and sexualities.

Wait until you cross one of their internal, religiously imposed "uncrossable" limits. Let's see how much the friendship lasts.

You have quite literally stereotyped every religious person ever.

Most of them make it very easy.

Yet I do believe it’s right for me yo stand up for the beliefs of others, even if they do not reflect my own.

Congratulations. You're an accomplice of religions destroying many countries in the world.