I don't support the law because it "restores religious rights" so much as I support it because it is a step toward affirming property rights. If I had my way, I'd get rid of any law that restricted a business owner from denying service to anyone he wanted for any reason except race (I do like the 14th amendment in spite of the fact that it has been used to justify massive government overreach).
The law is a step in the right direction. Would I like it to be more? Certainly.
See, we're all willing to create exemptions to the greater ideological truisms we hold dear. Blacks can't help being black anymore than old people can help being old and women can help being women, but you seem willing to discriminate based on age and gender, but not based on race.
Here's a thought.
As Scalia and Rehnquist argued in
Smith statutes as broad as Indiana's conceivably create
de facto exemptions to all anti discrimination laws and statutes since there is no carve out in the law which supports the State's anti-discrimination laws, and since individuals do not have to seek the State's approval of their religious beliefs, or even justify them, anyone can refuse to render any service to anyone else and claim an exemption from anti discrimination laws based upon this statute.
Muslims don't have to sell anything to Christians and Christians don't have to sell anything to Muslims, so religious people can actually be discriminated against based on this law.
It may also be the case that atheists can refuse service to anyone they believe is a Christian. I don't know, but it seems logical.
I like Cyber Liberty's idea that a bakery could actually decide not to bake any wedding cakes for anyone, and I also like the thought that was floated yesterday in Indiana that no one could be compelled to physically participate in any event or rite that would be contrary to their religious values, meaning that photographers would not be forced to attend a same-sex wedding ceremony, and that a wedding chapel would not be forced to rent their space to a same sex couple if their belief systems were opposed to doing such things.