I pored over the numbers articles about the infamous RFRA in Indiana. I kept asking myself... "What can a person do after the act that he or she couldn't do before?"
The answer as nearly as I can tell is turn down money from gay people (or really anyone if they feel offended by the person on a religious level), without fear of some sort of legal retribution.
So we can make this about religion. But at the heart of it is the free market. People are offering goods and services, and for some reason, don't want money from people who might do something gay with it. This flies in the face of the workings of capitalism. People are supposed to make people WANT their products and services. Something is amiss when certain people's money isn't welcome.
Well, there are plenty of people in Indiana and elsewhere rolling their eyes at the idea that a law is needed to protect people from having trouble sleeping at night knowing that the flowers they arranged or the food they cooked was served to people attending a gay wedding.
So, let's fix this act. If your business has any reservations about providing services to people who might be gay, know gay people, or even get gay-married, post a sign in a conspicuous place indicating "Gay money not accepted." Feel free to list all the other things that offend you.
(If you've ever read the Bible and take it seriously, you'll shun divorced people. "Jesus said 'I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.'" Matthew 19 verse 8. Not that I believe that there's any shame in moving on from a relationship that wasn't working, of course. But hey, crazy anti gay "Christians," be consistent. Start trying to ban straight divorce.)
If you're a business owner who likes money more than you dislike gay people, post a sign in a conspicuous place, maybe a dollar bill sign with rainbow stripes.
Then, people of conscience, stop going to the shops owned by the insane bigots and frequent the businesses that like money more than they dislike the possibility that their food will feed gay people or that their flowers will adorn the altar of two women or two men who are making an important personal and public commitment to each other because they love each other.
In other words, "let the free market handle this." These business owners are not religiously oppressed victims. They are a lunatic fringe. Make them state as much publicly so that we can stop patronizing them.