(Screenshot via Twitter)

Third Eye Blind angered Republican attendees at a benefit concert in Cleveland on Tuesday night by taunting the crowd with pro-LGBT comments.

The ’90s alternative rock band, best known for its hits “Semi-Charmed Life” and “Jumper,” performed at a benefit concert for Musicians on Call, an organization that provides music to patients in healthcare facilities.

The audience was largely Republican due to the Republican National Convention nearby. Lead singer Stephan Jenkins trolled the audience by shouting statements such as “Raise your hand if you believe in science!” Third Eye Blind also refused to play fan favorite song “Semi-Charmed Life.”

However, the band did play “Jumper,” a soft-rock ballad about a gay man committing suicide. The antics caused the crowd to boo and many to tweet their disappointment with the show.

Speaking with Rolling Stone, Jenkins says the band played “Jumper” to highlight how it conflicts with Republican ideology.

“To engage with that song means that you are participating in the belief system that all people are equal and deserving of dignity and protection, which is not what the Republican platform is,” Jenkins told Rolling Stone. “They think my gay cousin should be in conversion therapy.”

Jenkins continued that he doesn’t understand the Republican viewpoint on LGBT issues.

“The fact that I’m onstage 19 years after I wrote [“Jumper”] and we’re still talking about equal dignity for the LGBTQ community is absurd,” Jenkins says. “But we are. And to yell ‘Who believes in science?’ and have half the room boo is… their ideology is crumbling.”

Third Eye Blind also played its 2009 politically-charged song “Non-Dairy Creamer,” which includes the lyric “young gay Republicans” echoed three times.

The band released a statement on Twitter explaining that even though the show was in Cleveland at the same time as the RNC, they disagree with the Republican platform and wanted it to be known they were only there to support the charity.

“Given that the benefit was held in Cleveland, we suspect that convention types might show up and we let it be known we were there to support Musicians on Call and that we in fact repudiate every last stitch of the RNC platform and the grotesque that is their nominee,” the band wrote. “Science is science. Coal is not clean. Black Lives Matter. LGBTQ = equal. Separation of church and state (still a good idea).”

Third Eye Blind tonite at #RNCinCLE event: We believe in tolerance, acceptance ?? (Followed by boos) pic.twitter.com/WPRIEMZmEp

— Tina (@tinpant) July 20, 2016