It's about establishing homosexuals as a "protected class" and making their opponents walk in the shadow of "enemies of the State". And if you don't think that'll be a gold mine of repression, just ask anyone in the border-watcher community or the Ku Klux Klan about the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is all about suing people like them into nonexistence. They'll be happy to take on churches for preaching Leviticus, they were running out of Klansmen to sue. Their buddies in Canada already have taken on religion -- I refer you to our friends at FreeDominion.com.
Sorry, but when it comes to a question between the Ku Klux Klan and the Southern Poverty Law Center, I will stand with the latter.
And again, I must state that I am opposed to the portion of the bill that protects a certain class of people via a hate crime provision.
Instead, under current law, people who attack gays should be convicted of assault and tossed in prison where they are sure to receive a certain type of sensitivity training from fellow inmates who are doing a long stretch in prison.