loving them if you don t want to serve them? you can still love someone. i mean even though you don t serve them. reporter: a flower shop down the street the exact same opinions. from the florist and her son, who is studying to be a southern baptist pastor. i would respectfully tell them i m sorry, i just don t want to do it because of my beliefs. reporter: but right now, while georgia is considering a law to make it legal for you to do that you can get in trouble for doing that. i understand that. reporter: you would be willing to take that ris snk. yeshe died on the cross for me. it s the least i can do for him. it s called the judge of the universe and i don t care what anybody else says. reporter: no matter what a law or not, you would not bring your flowers to a gay commitment ceremony? no. reporter: there are five florists we found in this area. the employees of three of them did not want to appear on camera. they all told us the same thing. they want the la
georgia. advocates say it revealed precisely the type of discrimination they say these laws encourage. more on that from gary tuchman. reporter: head out to world jeff davis county georgia. you don t have to look hard to find proponents of the religious freedom act. if you had gay customers in here to buy flowers and said we want you to come to the commitment ceremony would you do it? no. i couldn t. reporter: jennifer williams is an associate of the flower shop an observant baptist and believes the bible has guide book for her life. you talk about the bible. the bible talks about love and loving. it is and i don t love them less. i pray for them. reporter: if you don t serve them i don t hate them. but reporter: but you re not
i would respectfully tell them that i m sorry i just don t want to do it because of my beliefs. reporter: right now, while georgia is considering a law to make it legal to do that, it is not and you can get in trouble. i understand that. he died on the cross for me, so that s the least i can do for him. i serve a god higher than any supreme court judge. reporter: so even if it s a law, you would not bring your flowers to a gay commitment ceremony? no. reporter: there are five florists we found in this area. the employees of three of them do not want to appear on camera, but they told us the same thing, that they want this law to pass in georgia. that they want the right to turn away business from gay people. their sentiments are very offensive to many. a demonstration taking place at the georgia capital this week. we now see that this bill is clearly a vehicle to be used to
restoration bill is stalled in the legislation committee. sparked a bitter debate in georgia. advocates say it revealed precisely the type of discrimination they say these laws encourage. more on that from gary tuchman. reporter: head out to rural geoff davis county georgia, and you don t have to look hard to find proponents of the religious freedom act. if you had gay customers in here to buy flowers and said we want you to come to the commitment ceremony, would you do it? no. i couldn t. reporter: jennifer williams is an associate of the flower shop, an observant baptist and believes the bible has guide book for her life. she believes that it would be a
not willing to provide flowers in a public marketplace for my commitment ceremony, even though gay marriage is legal in indiana, what this law does, unlike any other law in any other state and unlike the federal government is it allows somebody to have a defense to a discrimination claim. and so before he starts to fix it, i suggest that the governor reads it, kate and john. ross, i want to bring you in here because before you were saying there was a misunderstanding on the law. that was the point that governor pence just made at length. he said right now there is a perception problem and he wants to fix that. but you write a very interesting column today where you say that society has moved so fast that that s playing into this. you just had the governor say on a podium he doesn t support discrimination of any kind yet he also supported a measure that would have declared marriage to be just between a man and a woman and there are people who will say that s discrimination. so you see