What law says you can discriminate?
I'll wait.....
Several states still allow homosexuals to be fired, evicted, or denied housing simply for being gay. 2 such states- Arkansas and Tennessee- have state laws preventing municipalities from passing laws to strengthen LBGT protections.
Seven states prohibit atheists from holding public office.
The Federal RFPA was passed during the Clinton presidency to nullify a SCOTUS decision penned by Antonin Scalia that ruled that imprisnoned Native Americans could be denied the use of their religious consumable, peyote, because it was a prohibited drug under Federal law. Said decision completely ignored that Catholic inmates were permitted wine as part of services during Prohibition- something he and the 4 other Catholics on the court at the time should well have known. The Federal RFPA prohibits the government from interfering in religious practices at such a micro level...
unless said interference results in protection from discrimination against a protected class.
Several of the recently passed & proposed State RFPAs we’re modeled on the Federal one, but
by design most conspicuously and explicitly lack language such as I italicized, leaving the door open for discrimination against anyone as long as you can justify it for religious reasons. Some have been challenged by the public, with mixed results. Indiana’s version, signed by then Gov. Mike Pence, was a lightning rod for a bunch of businesses (including GenCon). Along with the concerned locals, those businesses managed to get it “watered down” with those eliminated protective words after Pence grudgingly admitted the law could possibly be used to discriminate, though he personally didn’t think it would ever happen. He said that with a straight face, without blushing.