A content creator who openly boasted about preaching on airplanes to audiences she described as "captive" has been removed from a flight after an incident involving the cabin crew.

Whitney Lynn, a self-described singer and producer, posted video of the encounter online in which she accuses a flight attendant of waging "spiritual warfare," as reported by The Mirror.

"Demons don't like the name of Jesus," Lynn said as staff began escorting her off the aircraft. She then turned on one of the individuals assisting in her removal, asking whether he was from Puerto Rico because she "can't really understand" him.

Addressing the remaining passengers as she departed, Lynn declared: "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." She also accused a flight attendant walking behind her of pushing her bag, saying, "you totally pushed my bag."

Speaking to The Washington Post earlier in the week, Lynn had defended her approach to in-flight preaching, calling passengers the ideal audience. "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," she said.

This was not Lynn's first instance of preaching aboard a commercial flight. In a video from early July, she addressed passengers waiting to deplane in San Diego, speaking about Jesus and the weather to visibly disinterested travelers. In another clip posted earlier this month, Lynn delivered a post-flight sermon of just over a minute covering the weather, Jesus, sin, hell, redemption, and heaven as passengers waited to disembark—again in San Diego. None of the other passengers appeared to engage. "I just love a captive audience," Lynn wrote in the description of that clip.

There is no specific prohibition against preaching on commercial aircraft. However, federal aviation regulations require passengers to remain seated with their seat belts fastened unless the seat belt sign is turned off. The Federal Aviation Administration stipulates that passengers must follow crewmember instructions "at all times" while on board. Any conduct that interferes with a crew's duties or is deemed "disruptive behavior" constitutes a violation of federal law. Under 49 U.S.C. § 46504, such violations can carry a fine, imprisonment for up to 20 years, or both. The FAA adopted a zero-tolerance enforcement policy for unruly passengers in 2021 after recording nearly 6,000 incident reports that year, and has since referred hundreds of the most serious cases to the FBI for potential criminal prosecution.

Pastor Rodney Kennedy, interviewed by The Post for its profile of Lynn, expressed reservations about non-consensual public preaching. "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 added that imposing a religious message on unwilling listeners often produces the opposite of its intended effect: "I think that ultimately it's a turnoff and it kind of reinforces the ideas that they already had about Christians."

Most of Lynn's videos on YouTube attract fewer than 1,000 views, though her recent uploads have drawn closer to 5,000.

On Friday, Lynn published a video of her subsequent conversation with airport 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.

The responding officer explained that disputes with flight attendants are a common cause for passenger removal, noting that many people are taken off flights "for much less." Lynn did not directly respond to the officer's remarks and instead resumed quoting the Bible. She told the officers that the flight attendants had refused to engage with or answer her questions, and said she films all of her encounters because "people want to see this." The officer was heard on the video saying, "Well, let's get you to the main terminal, that way we can, you know, get you situated."