Annoying "Sky Evangelist" kicked off airline after scaring everyone with her preaching

Days after getting media attention for her on-flight bursts of Christian gibberish, Whitney Lynn was temporarily banned from flying Alaska Air.

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Whitney Lynn, the “Sky Evangelist” who has made it her life’s work to annoy as many captive plane passenger as possible through her preaching, has been at least temporarily banned from one airline chain.

I mentioned Lynn last week because she was part of a growing trend in which Christians get on planes and begin preaching as soon as they know they have a captive audience. Because they’re not directly making threats to anyone, it’s hard to know where to draw any sort of line. It’s annoying in the same way a crying baby on a plane is annoying; you hate it but you know you might have to deal with it.

After the sudden boost from a Washington Post profile about her, Lynn decided to keep preaching on a plane last Thursday before a flight from Orlando to San Diego took off. And as people were still boarding, a flight attendant asked her and her cameraperson to come with him (off the plane) because “the crews don’t feel safe with you.”

Lynn pretended to be shocked by this information—how could anyone feel unsafe by Jesus Christ?!—before trying to argue she had free speech rights and proclaiming this to be “spiritual warfare.” In other words, as annoying as she is while preaching, she was even more annoying afterwards while cosplaying as a victim. (As she walks off, not a single passenger appears to be upset by this turn of events.)

One commenter even told her her treatment should have been expected because flight attendants “demand control and order.”

In subsequent videos—because she’s going to milk this as much as she can—the flight attendant gives her some paperwork so she can rebook her flight. Then she meets with airport police and desperately tries to convince them she has done no wrong, and that the attendant must have kicked her off because he’s a “homosexual,” and then (naturally) she tries to convert the officers. (They humor her with eyes wide open.) The cops, of course, are there to deescalate the situation and get her away from the gate, so their tactics work.

Before she felt fully, though, she decided to scream Jesus Gibberish inside the terminal one more time (talking over potentially important airline announcements). No one in the terminal seemed interested in listening to her.

Her whining also carried over to the tram away from the gate.

Anyway, she claims she later called the number to rebook her flight, which she was scheduled to take later that night… but before she could do that, Alaska Airlines sent her an email saying she was banned from flying with them (and corporate partners Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air) for the foreseeable future—at least until an investigation was concluded.

Dear Whitney,

I am writing to inform you that we have placed a hold on your ability to travel on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and Horizon Air flights. This decision was made based on reports we received regarding your recent travels with us. While we investigate this matter, you will be unable to travel on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and Horizon Air. Upon conclusion of our investigation, we will reach out to you once again with a final decision…

According to the Washington Post follow-up, “She received a flight credit but said there is no way for her to use it now.”

Whether or not she plans to sue is an open question. But she’s made it clear she’s not going to stop disrupting flights—and that, by the way, is how this should be framed.

The Post headline is “Preflight sermon gets plane preacher kicked off Alaska Airlines flight,” making it sound like the sermon’s content was the issue, when the issue is really how a disruptive arrogant preacher was making the flight worse for everyone involved. And the thing about religious zealots is you never know what they’re capable of doing. A Christian loudmouth like Lynn could very easy feel justified hijacking the plane and crashing it so that everyone goes to Heaven immediately. After all, she does believe the End is near and she’s just rescued people from hellfire. Am I going too far in saying that? I don’t think so. She’s not helping her case when she plainly sees every person on that plan as a target to begin with.

It’s ironic that, for someone who claims to see God everywhere, she’s incapable of understanding that maybe getting kicked off planes was God’s way of telling her to follow Matthew 6:5.

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