Tag Archives: Rodney Howard-Browne

Creative Loafing Tampa reports: This morning, a Tampa pastor with a well-documented history of spreading dangerous conspiracy theories— like mass shootings are false flags and the COVID-19 pandemic was planned by Bill Gates—was awarded a commendation by the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners for his community service. Kicking off Wednesday’s regular meeting, District 5 Commissioner Donna Cameron Cepeda presented the …

“That’s why they’re trying to push this thing with COVID-19. They’re trying to drag it out so they can put masks on every single person because that is the forced compliance that will come, and then everybody will have to get a vaccine. “If you go and get the vaccine, you’ll be dead within a couple of years. This is …

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: Hillsborough County Council just met and voted to reverse its order from law last Friday. At the recommendation of County Attorney Beck, the council voted to recognize churches as “essential.” Mayor Castor wanted to impose the 10 person and six-foot social distancing restriction on churches, but the council voted against her …

Via press release from Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne: My attorneys at Liberty Counsel will vigorously defend me against this unlawful arrest. I have also authorized my attorneys at Liberty Counsel to file a federal challenge to the Hillsborough County Executive Order. As I said earlier, this order violates the First Amendment and is unconstitutional. I have authorized this constitutional challenge for …

The Daily Beast reports: The controversial Florida pastor arrested this week for holding massive services in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic said Wednesday he will not do it again this weekend. “I actually have no choice at this juncture but to shut the church down this Sunday,” Rodney Howard-Browne of The River at Tampa Bay said on his livestream …

The Christian Post reports: Family Research Council President Tony Perkins slammed churches that have continued to gather as the coronavirus pandemic explodes across the county, calling their action a “defiance of common sense.” Reacting to a recent report by The Christian Post about 43 members of The Life Church of Glenview in Illinois falling ill and at least 10 of …

The Christian Post reports: Hours after he was arrested for holding worship services during the coronavirus pandemic in violation of a “safer-at-home” order Monday, leader of River at Tampa Bay Church in Tampa, Florida, pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, said he’s now getting death threats and shots were fired at the church’s sign. Howard-Browne made the claims during a Facebook Live broadcast …

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: Liberty Counsel has agreed to represent Pastor Howard-Browne, who was taken into custody today. As the arrest was unfolding, the Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister held a press conference announcing the arrest. During the press conference, State Attorney Andrew Warren quoted the Bible in Mark 12:31 (“There is no more important …

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Worshipers gathered at a Tampa megachurch for services on Sunday, drawing a warning from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office about violating the safer-at-home order in place to limit the spread of coronavirus. A live stream on the River at Tampa Bay Church’s Facebook page showed congregants gathered for its Sunday morning “Main Event” service led …

“I believe that this is a time of supernatural sustenance. Every day, there will be multiplication. What you have in your hand will multiply. “You’ll look at your toilet paper, and you’ll think, I’m gonna run out of toilet paper, but you have another roll where that other one was! You don’t know. How did that even take place? Are …

“The Lord has helped us to secure our congregation. We bought in 13 machines that basically kill every virus in the place. If somebody walks in the door, it’s like, it kills everything on them. If they sneeze, it shoots it down at like 100 mph. It’ll neutralize it in split seconds. So we have the most sterile building in, …

The Friendly Atheist reports: Yesterday, one of the first deaths of a Virginia resident from COVID-19 was a Christian musical evangelist who, believing the pandemic response to be anti-Trump “mass hysteria,” took his family to New Orleans to “wash it from its Sin and debauchery.” Landon Spradlin, 66, was an accomplished blues musician who pastored several different churches over the …

The Associated Press reports: Not every house of worship is bowing to government guidelines designed to help snuff out the virus. Rodney Howard-Browne, a Florida-based charismatic Christian pastor who prayed over Trump in the Oval Office in 2017, vowed not to stop services and encouraged worshippers to shake hands. In Louisiana, pastor Tony Spell was warned by police Tuesday after …

“All these churches that are allowing themselves to come down to 250 [congregants], guess what? When you try to meet again, you ain’t gonna be able to meet again. They are going to keep you at 250 because you gave up ground. You gave up ground. Whatever ground you give up because of fear, you will give up permanently. “Because …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Right-wing pastor and radical conspiracy theorist Rodney Howard-Browne posted a series of tweets yesterday in which he said that Jesus would have “beat the crap out of” former national security adviser John Bolton for writing a book that reportedly reveals that President Donald Trump told Bolton that he wanted to continue withholding aid …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: During the final night of the week-long “Celebrate America” revival event that he recently held in Washington, D.C., Rodney Howard-Browne issued a “restraining order” to the Antichrist and the secret cabal that controls the world, spiritually binding their efforts to destroy America. Howard-Browne, a right-wing pastor and radical conspiracy theorist who laid hands …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Rodney Howard-Browne, a right-wing pastor and radical conspiracy theorist who laid hands upon and prayed over President Trump in the Oval Office last year, is currently hosting a week-long “Celebrate America” event in Washington, D.C, that is designed to prepare for “the Great Awakening that is soon to come.” During Monday’s service, Howard-Browne …

“At the highest level, the people that rule the planet worship Lucifer. These people perform human sacrifices and drink blood. I don’t care what you believe. We’ve got all the documentation on it. Bohemian Grove in the redwoods of northern California, it’s a men’s only club founded out of San Francisco. That’s why homosexuality is at an all time high …

“The dogs want war. Our American men and women are being used as cannon fodder for the globalist agenda. We’re not in Afghanistan because we’re killing terrorists. The ISIS bases are in 49 states in America that the CIA brings them and trains them here and then ships them out to the areas of the world where they want there …

“They sacrifice children at the highest levels in Hollywood. They drink blood of young kids. This is a fact. That is why the next thing to be exposed will be all the pedophilia that is going to come out of Hollywood and out of Washington, D.C. The human sacrifice and the cannibalism has been going on for years. Some of …