Christian Philly Group Going to Bat for Jesus Again This Year
Ministry Members Plan to Display Banner at Phillies' Homosexual Promotion
By Jim Brown
August 18, 2005

(AgapePress) - A Philadelphia-based Christian ministry plans to protest the third annual "Gay Community Night" hosted by the Phillies Major League Baseball team.

Members of the group Repent America (RA) will be displaying signs and distributing literature tonight (Thursday) at Citizens Bank Park, notifying fans that the Phillies continue to promote the homosexual agenda by hosting Gay Community Night. RA members have been ejected from the ballpark two consecutive years for holding up a banner declaring: "Homosexuality is sin. Christ can set you free."

Repent America president Michael Marcavage says he plans to take the banner into the ballpark again this year and to peaceably display it, with no intentions of provoking any disorder. But Marcavage says a major difference this year is that RA's attorney has contacted the attorney for the baseball team.

According the RA spokesman, the Phillies' attorney has conveyed in a letter his belief that the wording of the banner would not violate the content requirements of signs brought into the stadium because it does not constitute "fighting words, per se." However, the team acknowledges the wording may "provoke breaches of the peace."

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