Pop singer Bryan Adams has cancelled a gig in Mississippi in protest at its new religious liberty law.
The Canadian, famous for writing Summer of ’69, pulled out of a show at the 15,000-seater Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi four days before a show there.
Announcing the snub on Facebook, the singer said the law discriminates against LGBT people by protecting Mississippians from reprisal if they refuse to serve them based on their faith.
He is the latest star to lobby state governments over contentious laws by axing shows, after Bruce Springsteen made a similar protest over a contentious law in North Carolina.
Adams wrote: “I find it incomprehensible that LGBT citizens are being discriminated against in the state of Mississippi.
“I cannot in good conscience perform in a State where certain people are being denied their civil rights due to their sexual orientation… Using my voice I stand in solidarity with all my LGBT friends to repeal this extremely discriminatory bill.”
Some noted that Adams’ moral stance only seems to apply in the United States.
In recent years he has played shows in India, Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates, where it is illegal to be gay and offenders are regularly imprisoned for it.
His website also lists upcoming dates in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, all of which have bans on same-sex marriage.
