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Following Gov. Nathan Deal’s veto of the “religious liberty” bill that would allow religion as a reason to discriminate against LGBT people, a conservative Texas group is fearing the worst for their values.

Texas Values, an affiliate of Focus on the Family, released a statement from president Jonathan Saenz slamming big businesses such as Disney and Apple for pressuring Deal to veto the bill.

“Will Disney now ban you from wearing a cross outside your shirt at their parks?” Saenz writes. “Will a Catholic priest be forced to remove his white collar when he takes a picture with Mickey Mouse? This is how extreme the attacks now are on religious freedom, it’s a zero tolerance policy for religious freedom.

“It’s striking that the day after Easter, churches in Georgia are told their freedoms are not that important to protect,” the statement continued. “It’s clear that corporate giants like Apple, Disney, NCAA, Intel have finally come out of the closet and declared public war on the religious freedom of clergy and religious schools, as was the protection in Georgia’s very modest HB 757 that they worked to bring down.”

Deal says corporation pressure wasn’t the reason for the decision.

“Georgia is a welcoming state,” Deal said after veoting the bill. “It is full of loving, kind and generous people. And that is what we should want. I intend to do my part to keep it that way.”