Repent America, A Philadelphia-based Christian group, showed up on Thursday night to display an anti-gay banner in protest of the third annual Gay Day at Citizens Bank Park.

A Philadelphia-based Christian group is claiming victory over the Phillies after displaying an anti-gay banner at the team’s annual Gay Day game.

Thursday night was the third annual Gay Day at Citizens Bank Park — and the third time that members of Repent America showed up to protest the event, the Philadelphia Daily News reported Saturday.

Larry Felzer, the Philadelphia attorney who began organizing the annual Gay Day in 2003, told the newspaper he wasn’t sure the Phillies were following their own policy by allowing members of RA to display a banner that read: “Homosexuality Is Sin. Christ Can Set You Free.”

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