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1.   Why are these types of Religious Freedom Restoration Acts controversial?

2.  What do Section 4  and Section 5 of the Georgia RFRA allow businesses to do?

3.  How would Georgia's laws and Atlanta's laws potentially conflict in this case?

4. Why do legal scholars doubt that these RFRAs would have a large impact?

5. Which protections exactly are given by RFRAs and how do those limit the government's powers?

6. Which types of groups typically benefit from RFRAs?

7. How do RFRA laws apply to the provisions of ACA (Obamacare)?

8. Why might the real legal issues be civil rights issues instead of civil liberties issues?

1. The controversy in religious freedom restoration acts is that they permit a certain level of discrimination against the LGBT community to take place. Many say that they are a threat to LGBT rights.
2. Sections 4 and 5 allow religious nonprofits to deny service based on their religious beliefs and protects the rights of these nonprofits to be able to only hire people who support and practice their faith.
3. Atlanta has a law that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace, which conflicts with the bill in Georgia.
4. These RFRAs wouldn't have a large impact because having a large impact would hurt business interests in the state. Many businesses don't want to be associated with such states and will move out, thereby decreasing funding to the state. 
5.  RFRAs allow businesses and nonprofit organizations to provide certain services to certain people. It limits the government because the government cannot interfere in a person or religious organization's religious rights.
6. Religious minorities and groups are typically the ones that benefit from RFRAs.
7. They apply to contraception and the birth control mandate of Obamacare. Some religious groups do not want to provide birth control through company insurance plans.
8. The issues seem to be more about anti-discrimination. The real controversy is whether RFRAs allow people to discriminate against those in the LGBT community.