Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges is asking the Minneapolis City Council to prohibit city-funded travel to Indiana in the wake of that state’s new “religious freedom” law that allows discrimination by religious business owners. The mayor also requested that the Minneapolis Fire Department cancel plans to attend conference in Indianapolis in late-April. Minneapolis Fire Chief John Fruetel, according to a press release, is backing Hodges position and the fire department announced on Wednesday it will not be attending the Indiana conference.

“Minneapolis is a welcoming, inclusive city that respects and values the contributions and the safety of everyone who lives, works, and visits here, and the City of Minneapolis as an employer respects and values the same in our employees,” Hodges said in a statement. “I cannot in good conscience support any official travel to Indiana in light of its enacting a law that makes discrimination legal, particularly against LGBT people.”

Hodges continued, “I am pleased to support Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and the Indianapolis City–County Council, who have called on Governor Pence and the Indiana General Assembly either to repeal the discriminatory law or to enact statewide legal protections for LGBT people. I send our best wishes to them, and to the residents and LGBT community in Indianapolis and across Indiana who are working to build inclusive, welcoming, and prosperous communities. Until the Governor and the Legislature repeal the law, enact protections for LGBT people, or both, I don’t think we should betray Minneapolis residents’ values by spending public dollars in Indiana, or put Minneapolis public employees at risk there.”