Rocker and former Vancouver resident Bryan Adams has made a powerful statement opposing a controversial law.

He's cancelled a scheduled concert on Thursday (April 14) at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Mississippi.

In an Instagram post, Adams says it's in response to a religious-liberty bill, which permits businesses and people to discriminate against the LGBT community.

"I cannot in good conscience perform in a State where certain people are being denied their civil rights due to their sexual orientation," Adams wrote.

It comes after Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band cancelled a concert in Greensboro, North Carolina, where the state legislature has passed a similar law.

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On April 8, the Nation described the Protecting Freedom of Conscience From Government Discrimination Act as the "most dangerous" of anti-LGBT bills passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures.

The law states that "sexual relations are properly reserved" within marriage between a man and a woman, according to the publication.

"One of the more disconcerting sections of the law is that which discusses people who provide foster-care services," wrote the Nation's Katherine Stewart. "The government, we are told, will no longer be allowed to take action against any foster parent that 'guides, instructs, or raises a child…in a manner consistent with a sincerely held religious belief.' If you want to know what that could mean, check out Focus on the Family’s 'spare the rod' philosophy of child rearing."