I don’t know how the bill is worded, but I think it should be a “conscience” bill directed at the protection of a spectrum of religious conscience, not specifically aimed at LGBTs. For instance, any caterer, window blind maker, kitchen installer or plumber should be able to decline to render services to a brothel, a gambling establishment, a liquor store as well as for an LGBT wedding, if it is for conscience reasons. Likewise, a muslim butcher should not have to provide pork, and a Hindu butcher should not have to provide beef.
(In fact, a business owner should not have to provide a reason, but that’s another whole thread.)
Legislators need to make it clear that a religion is not an inborn status like race. It is pretty well accepted in this country that racial discrimination is unacceptable if the persons behavior is socially acceptable — you should be able to throw a black person out of your store if he or she is cursing or disrobing in public, but not deny service simply because they are black. This is a comparable thing — religious persons should not have to violate their own religion to serve a person of a different religion. That’s not racist or bigoted.
Most of the providers cited in these human rights cases do already serve persons of other religions, except where their beliefs are in direct conflict, such as regards food taken into the body, participation in the rituals of marriage or providing for sleeping together under someone else’s roof outside of religious marriage (which the state shouldn’t get to define).
There's no mention of gays, homosexuals, LGBT or any such thing in the bill.
Here's the actual bill: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2016/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1523PS.htm