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The remarks in question were made by Brown at a Christian gathering called “Fire and Glory” in Ocala, Florida, back in March 2023. Reflecting on his early Washington career, Brown stated bluntly:
“What most people don’t understand is that many of the Republican members have homosexual staff, and the reason that they do is because the homosexuals usually, unlike me, I had two kids at home. I had a wife at home,” Brown said.
He went on to describe the work ethic he observed:
“I had responsibilities at home, and I needed to spend time with my children. And they don’t. They didn’t.”
Brown added a provocative detail about those staffers’ after-hours lives:
“They literally worked for the member 24/7 and then went out to Adams Morgan and had their gay sex, and then came back to work the next day.”
Adams Morgan, a well-known D.C. neighborhood, became a shorthand for Brown’s pointed criticism of Capitol Hill culture.
After his firing, Brown spoke out on “The Lance Wallnau Show” last weekend. Wallnau, who co-hosted the Ocala event with evangelist Mario Murillo, explained the political focus of their sessions, which included candid conversations about election integrity and Washington’s inner workings.
Brown’s comments at the event aimed to explain why Christians, despite voting for candidates who claim traditional values, often find themselves marginalized in the halls of power. He bluntly laid out a culture clash between Christian family values and the lifestyles tolerated or even embraced by many political staffers.
When CNN’s inquiries triggered the Kennedy Center’s response, Brown was told to renounce his remarks if he wanted to keep his job. He refused, standing by his words and his Christian faith:
“I just described a situation, and I just described it accurately,” Brown said. “I wasn’t going to disavow it, and I wasn’t going to disavow any of my Christian beliefs around traditional marriage.”
Brown pointed to the biblical foundation of his beliefs, quoting Jesus from the New Testament, citing Genesis about marriage between a man and a woman:
“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?”
He noted that multiple Bible passages identify homosexual acts as sin, reinforcing that his statements were rooted in his faith, not a personal attack.
Brown also suggested that the Kennedy Center’s interim director Richard Grenell, who is openly homosexual and in a same-sex relationship, was part of the decision to dismiss him. Yet Brown stressed his comments were made years ago, to a Christian audience, and had no bearing on his professional duties at the Kennedy Center. He expressed willingness to work with Grenell and others to restore the institution’s former prestige.
“I was more than willing to work closely with Ambassador Ric Grenell and the others that were there in order to achieve that mission,” Brown said.
Wallnau agreed, underscoring that Brown exemplifies the true Christian statesman:
“Exactly. The point is you’re a statesman and a Christian, and just like all of us, we can work with anyone because we love all people. We have a great sense of ambassadorial etiquette, that we don’t bring things up. We don’t needlessly or divisively bring up our differences in worldview.”
This firing fits a troubling pattern in America today—where Christian beliefs and traditional values are often punished in the public sphere. President Trump recognized this early in his administration and issued an executive order aimed at “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias” within government agencies.
Floyd Brown’s removal from the Kennedy Center sends a chilling message to conservatives: speak your truth, and lose your livelihood. This unjust decision must be reversed immediately. Brown deserves reinstatement and a public apology from the Kennedy Center, especially from Richard Grenell.
America needs more principled leaders like Floyd Brown, not censorship by woke elites determined to silence the Christian voice in the nation’s capital.
