West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio enacts city-funded travel ban to Mississippi

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West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio has placed a travel ban on city-funded trips to Mississippi.

The decision was made in the wake of Mississippi's new law allowing government employees, religious groups and some private businesses to cite their own religious beliefs to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people.

Mayor Muoio is the first mayor in Florida and the second in the nation to enact such a travel ban to Mississippi.

Some Mississippians say the law is needed protection for Christians who adhere to traditional views of marriage and gender roles.