Content creator Whitney Lynn (Photo: Screen capture)
The content creator who bragged that she likes to preach on planes when people are trapped and must hear her message has now been kicked off a flight.
Whitney Lynn, a self-described singer and producer, posted a video of the incident online in which she appears to attack the flight attendant for waging "spiritual warfare," reported The Mirror.
"Demons don't like the name of Jesus," she said when staff began escorting her off the plane. She then lashed out at one of the people taking her off the plane, asking if he was from Puerto Rico because she "can't really understand" him.
"God bless everybody, if you know Jesus today, make him lord of your life and continue to spread the gospel. We are in the last days. We are being persecuted, persecuted to be a Christian," Lynn broadcasts to the trapped passengers.
While leaving the plane she lashed out at one flight attendant walking behind her saying, "you totally pushed my bag."
When she spoke this week to The Washington Post, she claimed that they're the perfect audience because, “They have no choice but to hear the truth. When I have a gift, and I have a life raft, if you’re drowning, I want to give you that life raft so you can be saved.”
In another video from early July, Lynn "preached" at passengers waiting to get off of the plane in San Diego, speaking about Jesus and the weather to all passengers who looked disinterested.
In a separate video posted earlier this month, Lynn delivered a post-flight preaching session as passengers waited to disembark in San Diego. As she spoke for a little over a minute about the weather, Jesus, sin, hell, redemption and heaven, all other passengers remained disengaged and did not look around.
“I just love a captive audience," Lynn boasted in the clip description.
There are no bans on preaching on airplanes, but passengers must remain seated and buckled into their seat belts unless the seat belt sign is off.
Flight attendants have strict rules about following directions from the flight crew. Anything that interferes with a crew's duties or anything considered "disruptive behavior" is a violation of federal law, says FAA regulations. One federal law (49 U.S.C. § 46504) outlines punishments of a fine or imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both. The FFA outlines that passengers must follow crewmember instructions "at all times" while on board.
Speaking about Lynn to The Post in its profile of her, Pastor Rodney Kennedy said that he's not a fan of the non-consensual preachers.
“I don’t have any problems with people articulating their faith,” he said. “But I think it requires a relationship and level of trust and a level of permission."
He worries that force-feeding unwilling participants a message about Jesus can send people in the opposite direction.
“I think that ultimately it’s a turnoff and it kind of reinforces the ideas that they already had about Christians,” he said.
Most of her videos struggle to get more than 1,000 views on YouTube, but the recent videos appear to be close to 5,000 views.
On Friday, she posted her video of her chatting with police.
"Hi! You guys are looking for me! Hello. I'm the wanted one. I'm the wanted one for telling people about Jesus. It's a crime. It's a crime. Oh my gosh. Okay. So, I preached the gospel and I, you know, I'm a content creator, but everywhere I go, so I'm on my way to San Diego to street preach and do outreach and, um, so I preached the gospel while we were waiting. I said, 'Oh, we're waiting. Perfect opportunity.' Yeah," she said in the video.
The police explained that you can't have arguments with flight attendants, noting it's one of the ways people get kicked off planes frequently. The officer said many people are removed "for much less."
Lynn didn't respond to their comments; she began to quote the Bible again.
She did mention that the flight attendants wouldn't engage or say anything to answer her questions. She said that she films everything because "people want to see this."
"Well, let's get you to the main terminal, that way we can, you know, get you situated," the officer is heard saying.