Citrus Taliban: Benjamin Horbowy

He is running for a Florida
state senate seat

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He was in Tallahassee with his mom to watch live as Trump walked from the White House to St John’s. “My mother just shouted out, ‘God give him strength! He’s doing a Jericho walk!’” 

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“My mother started crying. She comes from a Pentecostal background, and she started speaking in tongues. I haven’t heard her speak in tongues in years,” he said. “I thought, look at my president! He’s establishing the Lord’s kingdom in the world.”

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The Tallahassee Democrat newspaper quotes him as saying that where he comes from, LGBT stands for “liberty, guns, Bible, and Trump.” HERE

Citrus Taliban: Mark Grenon

Mark Grenon wrote to Trump saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment

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Grenon styles himself as “archbishop” of Genesis II – a Florida-based outfit that claims to be a church but which in fact is the largest producer and distributor of chlorine dioxide bleach as a “miracle cure” in the US. He brands the chemical as MMS, “miracle mineral solution”, and claims fraudulently that it can cure 99% of all illnesses including cancer, malaria, HIV/Aids as well as autism. HERE

Tampa Pastor Spreads Wild Conspiracy Theories During Easter Sermon

After being arrested for continuing to hold in-person church services at The River church in Tampa, Florida, Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne is using his (now live-streaming) pulpit to preach conspiracy theories.

Florida's Right Wing Infestation

As the state’s coronavirus curve rises, Ron DeSantis sticks up for anti-science preachers—and keeps churches open for Easter Sunday. HERE

Tampa Right Wing Pastor Arrested

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister arrested the pastor after he intentionally and repeatedly violated orders that no gatherings of 10 or more people he held in order to stop of the spread of COVID-19 by holding services 
at his megachurch. HERE

Marco Rubio's urgent pastor briefing

Sen. Marco Rubio participated in an “urgent pastor briefing” last Thursday that was hosted by the Florida Family Policy Council, a religious right organization headed by anti-LGBTQ activist John Stemberger. Rubio, who has long supported Stemberger
 and his organization.

 When Stemberger asked if there were any plans to provide assistance to churches during this crisis, Rubio stated that he had been tasked with drafting a package that would
 do precisely that. HERE

Tampa Right Winger Rodney Howard-Browne Mocks The Pansies

Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne of Florida’s River Tampa Bay Church. mocked the “pansies” who are scared of the coronavirus — as he insisted his packed church will only shut its doors “when the Rapture is taking place.” HERE

Soul Winning - Ybor City

Ybor City Camp

Terry Kemple is back

He will challenge a new sex education policy Hillsborough County is currently testing in its schools. HERE

Citrus Taliban Rick Wiles

 The far-right fundamentalist Christian radio host and peddler of conspiracy theories, claims he has figured out the administration insider who wrote the tell-all book about President Donald Trump, A Warning—and it's Barack Obama. HERE

Hillsborough County, Rligious Exemptions

Tampa Hoods

Ybor City

Florida Pastor Adam Fannin Attacks Sarah Silverman

The Citrus Taliban: Andy Tuck

The new Florida Board of Education Chair: 

“I won’t support any evolution being taught as fact at all in any of our schools.” HERE

The Citrus Taliban in Ybor City

7th Ave

Tampa Right Wing Church

Last month, Paula White, a televangelist who is a key spiritual adviser to and supporter of President Trump, preached at The River Church in Tampa, Florida, which was founded by fellow right-wing pastor and radical conspiracy theorist Rodney Howard-Browne. During her sermon, White proclaimed that she is making the White House “holy ground” simply 
by her presence. MORE

June Preaching Ybor

Tampa Hoods

Jehovah's Witnesses

Trinity Christian Academy in Volusia

Received $1 million in taxpayer funded vouchers in 2018. Students who say "I am gay" or "I am transgender" will be expelled. Others like Merritt Island Christian School teach students that being gay/transgender (a Class I infraction) is WORSE than lying, cheating or destroying school property.

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Do Florida private schools who teach hate deserve our taxpayer money? Read the story in the Orlando Sentinel: 

https://bit.ly/2InEVgp