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Yeah, they were. E.g. Advance America » Blog Archive » VICTORY AT THE STATE HOUSE!
AFA of Indiana was also at the bill signing. You can google them if you want their views on SSM, and their support of this bill.
And as someone else pointed out above, when Utah passed their version of this bill, they engaged with the LGBT community and wrote into the law protections for them in employment and housing, and there was little controversy when that bill passed. Obviously, Utah refused to include measures that would address some of the other "hard" issues, like when does a restaurant have to host a reception for a SSM or when does a florist have to provide services etc. But there was a compromise.
Indiana did none of that. The business community warned them of the message they were sending, they gave opponents the finger, and are unsurprisingly paying a price. Boo hooo.....
I see you could not find a link to such a statement by any responsible official. Your claim remains unsupported. And no, businesses in Indiana will pay no price. That's because there's no more discrimination possible now than there was a week ago.