HISTORIC BLACK CHURCH, METROPOLITAN AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) CHURCH IN WASHINGTON, D.C., IS AWARDED OWNERSHIP OF THE NAME AND TRADEMARK OF THE “PROUD BOYS”
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DANIEL WHYTE III, PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL LIGHT SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL, HAS BEEN WARNING OF A COMING SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR FOR YEARS NOW. WHAT THE PROUD BOYS DID TO THIS HISTORIC BLACK CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT DOES NOT HELP MATTERS. BELOW IS WHAT WHYTE HAS SAID ABOUT THE COMING SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND WHY HE HAS CALLED THE BLACK AND WHITE CHURCH TO A 60-DAY DANIEL FAST LEADING UP TO THE 2024 ELECTION, AND NOW IS IN THE 23RD DAY OF A 100-DAY DANIEL FAST THIS YEAR. THE MAIN REASON HE HAS CALLED THE FAST IS TO AVOID A SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, WHICH IS NOT GOING TO HELP ANYBODY:
THE GOSPEL LIGHT SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL 20TH ANNUAL DANIEL FAST COMMENCES AT 11:59 P.M. JANUARY 10TH, 2025. DANIEL WHYTE III SAYS THIS TIME INSTEAD OF CALLING FOR A 40-DAY DANIEL FAST, HE IS CALLING FOR AN UNPRECEDENTED “GET-ON-GET-OFF/REVOLVING/SHIFT STYLE” 100-DAY DANIEL FAST FOR MEN TO BE MEN AGAIN AND TAKE THEIR GOD-GIVEN LEADERSHIP ROLE IN THE FAMILY AND THE CHURCH, TO CAST THE SATANIC SPIRIT OF JEZEBEL OUT OF GOD’S CHURCH, TO CRUSH THE SATANIC JUDAS STRANGLE HOLD THAT POLITICS HAS ON PASTORS AND CHURCHES, TO AVOID A SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, AND TO COPE WITH AND ENDURE THE PREDICTED WORLD WAR III, WHICH IS UPON US THAT THE SINS OF THE CHURCH HAS CAUSED. FINALLY, THIS UNPRECEDENTED 100-DAY DANIEL FAST IS ABOUT PASTORS AND CHURCHES FOCUSING ON WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THIS NEW YEAR INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON WHAT THE NEW PRESIDENT IS GOING TO DO IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF HIS TERM. THIS UNUSUAL 100-DAY DANIEL FAST HAS A DIVERSIONARY INTENT TO HELP PASTORS AND CHURCHES GET THEIR MINDS OFF UNFRUITFUL POLITICS AND BACK ON GOD, JESUS CHRIST, AND OBEYING OF THE GREAT COMMANDMENT AND THE GREAT COMMISSION.
- LET’S BE CLEAR: WE DO NOT WANT ANYBODY TO DO THE DANIEL FAST PAST 40 DAYS.
- DANIEL WHYTE III WILL ONLY FAST FOR 40 DAYS. HIS WIFE WILL ONLY FAST ONE DAY A WEEK.
- THIS 100-DAY DANIEL FAST IS A GET-ON-GET-OFF FAST WHEN YOU ARE LED OF THE LORD; IT IS A REVOLVING FAST; IT IS A SHIFT FAST. SOME WILL TAKE THE FIRST 40-DAY SHIFT. SOME WILL TAKE THE SECOND 40-DAY SHIFT. SOME WILL TAKE THE LAST 20-DAY SHIFT.
- PEOPLE CAN GET IN WHERE THEY FIT IN AS THE LORD LEADS THEM.
- WHYTE IS CALLING ON ALL YOUNG PASTORS AGE 40 AND YOUNGER, WHO HAVE NEVER FASTED FOR 40 DAYS TO DO SO.
- WHYTE IS CALLING ON ALL YOUNG PASTORS AGE 40 AND YOUNGER, WHO HAVE ALREADY FASTED FOR 40 DAYS TO JOIN US IN THE DANIEL FAST FOR HOWEVER LONG THEY ARE LED TO FAST.
- ON THIS 100-DAY FAST, PEOPLE WILL FAST BASED ON HOW THE LORD LEADS THEM. FOR EXAMPLE, SOME PEOPLE WILL FAST FOR 1 DAY, 3 DAYS, 7 DAYS, 10 DAYS, 12 DAYS, 14 DAYS, 21 DAYS, 30 DAYS, 40 DAYS. WHYTE DISCOURAGES PEOPLE FROM GOING ON A FAST LONGER THAN 40 DAYS. DO AS THE LORD LEADS YOU, AND LISTEN TO THE BODY GOD GAVE YOU.
DANIEL WHYTE III, PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL LIGHT SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF BLACKCHRISTIANNEWS.COM, CALLS ON AL SHARPTON AND FRANKLIN GRAHAM, FREDDIE HAYNES AND ROBERT JEFFRESS, AND OTHER PASTORS TO JOIN US IN FASTING AND PRAYING FOR THE CHURCH, THE COUNTRY, AND THE WORLD, TO REPENT OF FOLLOWING THE “BAALZEBUB” OF POLITICS AND NOT THE GOD OF HEAVEN TO SAVE AMERICA. WHYTE CALLS FOR A 100-DAY DANIEL FAST AND TIME OF PRAYER AND REPENTANCE TO BREAK THE JUDAS STRANGLE HOLD THAT POLITICS HAS ON THE CHURCH AND TO AVOID A SECOND U.S. CIVIL WAR STARTING 11:59 P.M. FRIDAY, JANUARY 10TH, 2025 THRU 11:59 P.M. SUNDAY, APRIL 20TH, 2025.
DANIEL WHYTE III, PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL LIGHT SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL, CALLS ON BORN-AGAIN-SAVED CHRISTIANS, WHETHER THEY LABEL THEMSELVES CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICAL OR LIBERAL PROTESTANT TO CONFESS AND REPENT OF THEIR SIN OF FORSAKING THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, AND JESUS AND TRUSTING IN THE “BAALZEBUB” OF POLITICS TO SAVE AMERICA, TO FAST AND PRAY FOR 100 DAYS UTILIZING THE DANIEL FAST FROM 11:59 P.M. FRIDAY, JANUARY 10TH, 2025 THRU 11:59 P.M. SUNDAY, APRIL 20TH, 2025.
MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT FAST FOR THE ENTIRE 100 DAYS, AND MANY SHOULD NOT FAST FOR THE ENTIRE 100 DAYS. THIS IS A GET-ON-GET-OFF FAST AS THE LORD LEADS YOU AND AS YOU WILL. FOR EXAMPLE, DANIEL WHYTE III’S WIFE, WHO IS STILL RECOVERING FROM HER ILLNESS WILL ONLY FAST A FEW DAYS EACH MONTH. OTHERS WHO ARE FACING HEALTH ISSUES OUGHT TO DO LIKEWISE.
THIS FAST IS TO HELP PEOPLE WHO TRULY BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST TO HUMBLE THEMSELVES, PRAY, SEEK GOD’S FACE, CONFESS THEIR SINS, TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, REPENT OF THEIR SINS, AND GET BACK TO THEIR FIRST LOVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND TO STOP BEING A JUDAS-JEZEBEL-LAODICEAN CHURCH, WHICH BOTH SIDES ARE GUILTY OF.
THIS FAST ALSO CALLS FOR THESE SAME PEOPLE TO PRAY TO GOD TO KEEP THIS COUNTRY FROM GOING INTO ITS SECOND CIVIL WAR, THIS TIME NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE OF BLACK AND WHITE RACE ISSUES, BUT THIS TIME BECAUSE OF LIGHT AND DARK SIN ISSUES.
THE SECOND CIVIL WAR WOULD BE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE FOR THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY AND THOSE WHO WANT TO SEE THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY DESTROYED. THE PROBLEM IS IF THE CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICAL CHURCH AND THE LIBERAL PROTESTANT CHURCH, WHO BOTH CLAIM TO BE BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST HAD OBEYED THE GREAT COMMANDMENT OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE GREAT COMMISSION OF JESUS CHRIST AS WELL AS THE GREAT PARABLE OF JESUS CHRIST TO THIS END THAT “MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY AND NOT TO FAINT” IN THIS LAND CALLED AMERICA, WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS SITUATION IN THE FIRST PLACE. BOTH GROUPS HAVE BECOME JUDAS-JEZEBEL-LAODICEAN CHURCHES WITH THEIR OWN POLITICAL AGENDA AND NOT THE LORD’S AGENDA BECAUSE THE LORD SAID “NO MAN THAT WARRETH ENTANGLETH HIMSELF WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THIS LIFE; THAT HE MAY PLEASE HIM WHO HATH CHOSEN HIM TO BE A SOLDIER” BUT TO GIVE THEMSELVES CONTINUALLY TO PRAYER AND THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD, WHICH BOTH SIDES KNOW IF THEY WOULD HAVE DONE THAT HEARTS WOULD HAVE BEEN WON OVER BECAUSE AMERICA IS A DEMOCRACY AND MOST PEOPLE WOULD BELIEVE THE SAME WAY ABOUT MORAL ISSUES BECAUSE OF THE INFLUENCE OF CHRIST IN THEIR HEARTS. THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT, WHICH IS A GORGEOUS GIFT FROM GOD, DID NOT FAIL THE CHURCH AND AMERICA; THE CHURCH AND AMERICA FAILED THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT. FOR ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE SAID IT BEST:
“I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers—and it was not there. . . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forests—and it was not there. . . . .in her rich mines and her vast world commerce—and it was not there. . . . in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution—and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
-THE SECOND CIVIL WAR WOULD BE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST THE ABOMINATION OF SODOMY/HOMOSEXUALITY AND THOSE WHO ARE FOR THE ABOMINATION OF SODOMY/HOMOSEXUALITY;
-THE SECOND CIVIL WAR WOULD BE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST MEN COMPETING AGAINST WOMEN IN SPORTS AND THOSE WHO ARE FOR MEN COMPETING AGAINST WOMEN IN SPORTS;
-THE SECOND CIVIL WAR WOULD BE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST “TRANSGENDERISM” AND THOSE WHO ARE FOR “TRANSGENDERISM”;
-THE SECOND CIVIL WAR WOULD BE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST THE MURDERING OF BABIES INSIDE THE WOMB (ABORTION) AND THOSE WHO ARE FOR THE MURDERING OF BABIES INSIDE THE WOMB AND EVEN OUTSIDE THE WOMB (ABORTION) ;
-THE SECOND CIVIL WAR WOULD BE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST ADULTS HAVING SEX WITH CHILDREN AND THOSE WHO ARE FOR ADULTS HAVING SEX WITH CHILDREN;
-THE SECOND CIVIL WAR WOULD BE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST DRAG QUEENS IN LIBRARIES READING TO CHILDREN AND AT OTHER EVENTS WITH CHILDREN AND THOSE WHO ARE FOR DRAG QUEENS IN LIBRARIES READING TO CHILDREN AND AT OTHER EVENTS WITH CHILDREN — THUS BRAIN-WASHING, SPIRIT-WASHING, AND SOUL-WASHING THE CHILDREN;
-THE SECOND CIVIL WAR WOULD BE BETWEEN CHURCHES THAT ARE AGAINST THE ABOMINATION OF SODOMY/HOMOSEXUALITY AND CHURCHES AFFIRMING SODOMY/HOMOSEXUALITY;
-THE SECOND CIVIL WAR WOULD BE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI) AND THOSE WHO ARE FOR DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI);
-THE SECOND CIVIL WAR WOULD BE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO LOVE AND SUPPORT ISRAEL AND THOSE WHO HATE AND DO NOT SUPPORT ISRAEL.
THIS FAST IS ALSO CALLING FOR PASTORS AND PASTORS’ WIVES TO REPENT OF THEIR SINS, SUCH AS ADULTERY, FORNICATION, DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE, HOMOSEXUALITY, SWINGING, ASHLEY MADISON, CHILD MOLESTATION AND CHILD RAPE;
-PASTORS AND PASTORS’ WIVES NEED TO STOP HAVING SEX WITH BISEXUAL PERSONS IN THEIR MARRIAGE BEDS;
-PASTORS NEED TO STOP HAVING “SIDE PIECES” OR CHURCH CONCUBINES;
-PASTORS NEED TO STOP PAYING PROSTITUTES;
-PASTORS’ WIVES NEED TO STOP HAVING BOYFRIENDS IN THE CHURCH AND CUCKOLD PASTOR HUSBANDS NEED TO STOP ALLOWING IT
REMEMBER THE WORDS OF ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE:
“I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers—and it was not there. . . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forests—and it was not there. . . . .in her rich mines and her vast world commerce—and it was not there. . . . in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution—and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
“IF MY PEOPLE, WHICH ARE CALLED BY MY NAME, SHALL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, AND PRAY, AND SEEK MY FACE, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS; THEN WILL I HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN, AND WILL HEAL THEIR LAND” (2 CHRONICLES 7:14)
WASHINGTON — A historic Black church in D.C. now controls the “Proud Boys” trademark after a judge found Monday the far-right group had failed to pay a multimillion-dollar judgment for vandalizing the property in late 2020.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier granted default judgment against the Proud Boys in a long-running civil case brought by the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Metropolitan AME was one of two historic Black churches whose Black Lives Matter banners were vandalized by the Proud Boys in December 2020 following a rally in support of President Donald Trump in the city. Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio eventually pleaded guilty to one of the banner burnings and served five months in prison.
Methodist AME filed a civil suit against the Proud Boys in January 2021 and, in June 2023, after the group failed to respond to any motions in the case, a D.C. judge granted default judgment and awarded Methodist AME $2.8 million in damages.
In his order, D.C. Superior Court Judge Neal E. Kravitz said a substantial award was essential to punish the Proud Boys and deter further such actions.
“The hateful and overtly racist conduct exhibited by the defendants on December 12, 2020 was repugnant not only to the laws relied on by the church but to every norm of a civilized community,” Kravitz wrote.
But the Proud Boys failed to pay the $2.8 million judgment and, according to court filings, took steps to try to conceal who owned the organization’s trademark. In July of last year, Metropolitan AME again filed a lawsuit seeking a court order either establishing the owner of the mark or, in the alternative, awarding the church control of the Proud Boys name.
On Monday, after the Proud Boys and Tarrio again failed to respond to court filings, Jones Bosier granted the church’s request and awarded Metropolitan AME control of the Proud Boys trademark. She also imposed a lien against the organization permanently barring it from “selling, transferring, disposing of, or licensing the trademark ‘Proud Boys’ without the consent of Plaintiff Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.”
The Proud Boys, which had been largely absent from D.C. after helping to incite the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have reappeared in the District since President Donald Trump’s inauguration last month. As one of his first acts in office, Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of dozens of members of the far-right organization convicted in the riot, including Tarrio and other Proud Boys lieutenants convicted at trial of seditious conspiracy. Prior to his pardon, Tarrio had been serving his 22-year sentence – the longest handed down in any Capitol riot case – at a federal penitentiary in Kentucky.
A Historic DC Black Church Now Owns the Proud Boys’ Name
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church can seize any money the far-right group makes from selling merchandise.
A DC judge awarded the Proud Boys’ trademarks to downtown’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church Monday. The ruling means that the far-right group can no longer use its name, and “clears the way for the church to try to seize any money that the Proud Boys might make by selling merchandise like hats or T-shirts emblazoned with their name or with any of their familiar logos, including a black and yellow laurel wreath,” the New York Times reports.
The church, where Frederick Douglass, Oprah Winfrey, and former President Obama have worshipped, sued the Proud Boys in January 2021 after they destroyed Black Lives Matter signs in during the mayhem that ensued around a December 2020 rally for President Trump. Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio pleaded guilty to the act that July. The Proud Boys were ordered to pay the church more than $1 million in 2023 but the group failed to do so, leading to Monday’s ruling.
Trump pardoned Tarrio, who also pleaded guilty to bringing a high-capacity magazine into the District, when he returned to office last month, and members of the group marched in DC on Inauguration Day. Tarrio called the ruling a “betrayal of justice,” the Times reports.