Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson sent the RFRA bill back to the legislature to be amended to look just like the longstanding federal RFRA.

"This is a bill that in ordinary times would not be controversial. But these are not ordinary times," he said. He wants Arkansas to be known as "a place of tolerance."

�What is important from an Arkansas standpoint is one, we get the right balance,� he said, �and secondly, we make sure that we communicate we�re not going to be a state that fails to recognize the diversity of our workplace, our economy and our future.�...

Several businesses and tech companies, including the state�s largest employer, Walmart, as well as the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, the Arkansas Municipal League and other civic groups have spoken out against the legislation.

Meanwhile, in Indiana, under time pressure from � of all things � basketball, the state legislature is working on amending the language in its RFRA.