Reply #3: IMO, I don't think it was the church thing at all. I think it was the bit that said

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that people who didn't like gay marriage, but who owned, say a restaurant or a gathering venue, could not be allowed to discriminate against people celebrating gay marriages out of a "sincerely held personal or religious belief."

For example, you own Rosa's Catering Hall, and Fred and Joe want to hold their wedding reception there. You don't "approve of" gay marriage, because you are a Roman Catholic, but still you HAVE to give them your list of open dates and rent the hall to them if they select one of your open dates, otherwise you're behaving in a discriminatory manner and you could be both fined and jailed.

THAT, I believe, is the sticking point. The rewrites that the governor's people crafted already gave the the churches an "out." They didn't give the same "out" to businesses.