Now that right-wing pastor Rodney Howard-Browne has been arrested and charged with unlawful assembly and violating health emergency rules — both second-degree misdemeanors — his friend and fellow pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth plans to hold a “Woodstock”-sized event.
Shuttlesworth, who himself has been flouting rules set up by health officials to keep the virus from spreading, is angry about Howard-Browne’s arrest.
“We’re gonna hold an outdoor Easter blowout service — not online,” he said. “A national gathering. You come from all over — like Woodstock. And we’re gonna gather and lift up Jesus Christ. I’m not ashamed that Dr. Rodney got arrested — I’m ashamed that when they wanted to arrest preachers for having church, that in an entire state there was only one they came for.”
Watch, via Right Wing Watch.
Right-wing evangelist Jonathan Shuttlesworth, a close friend of Rodney Howard-Browne, says he intends to hold a large Woodstock-like Christian gathering in defiance of stay-at-home orders. pic.twitter.com/sn5Pvt1NA5
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 31, 2020
