123everton – Your quote - “People of faith have the right to be treated with the same respect and courtesy as anyone else, whether you like them or agree with them”
In that statement you're suggesting that all beliefs are equal and therefore no matter what someone claims they believe, their belief should be respected.
Questioning someone's belief is not showing disrespect. This is a common misconception within the religious community who typically don't think very clearly about reality and logic. And why should they? They have their minds on other, more spiritual, esoteric matters... possibly.
Actually, what happens is that the religious people who cling to the most absurd, unlikely, unprovable, and irrational world-view are the first people to jump down the throat of the sceptical enquirer. People of faith, as you put it, have a reputation for metaphorically throwing their toys out of the pram at the merest hint of quizzical enquiry as to the validity of their belief.
In the real world, people who believe in a supernatural, all-powerful deity take 'offence' at anyone questioning:-
that a virgin can give birth;
talking snakes;
that a human being can walk on water;
that a man can heal another by wafting his hands in the general vicinity of the afflicted;
etc.