"Brother Micah" and "Sister Elizabeth" at UF

Meet "Brother Micah" and "Sister Elizabeth" Armstrong, originally of the Open Air Preaching Ministry of Miami. Micah was born April 20, 1967, and he's been an a$$hole ever since.

Micah and wife descended upon UF to spew forth their fear, ignorance and hatred for about 5 hours on 1/29 and 1/30, from 12-5, in Turlington Plaza. They may be back today. I'm quite unsure. Unfortunately, it looks like they're going to be regulars on the circuit now -- they teamed up with Jed and have already done a lot of touring of Florida campuses. See some Youtube videos of them on-campus at UF today (1/30) and yesterday here. Props to Adam for those.

The most noteworthy thing Micah has accomplished recently is getting an air horn set off right beside his ear by a strip club owner in Tampa last November. You can see the news article and videos here, and see video update (all it confirms is that Micah and Larry didn't press charges). How big of them [eye roll]. He and some Larry Keffer of the "Biblical Research Center" were the ones involved in the incident.

You can view lots of Micah's recent activities here, and this funny note by some rotten heathen that got posted to his site. Although the old webpage of the "ministry" is broken, you can see plenty of cached material via Google if you so desire, including Micah's views on judgment, run-ins with the homeless, run-ins with the Miami PD, and preaching at a Madonna concert last July. And, if you're interested, contact the owner of the domain moami.org -- Vera Berry, or visit the Miami Open Air Mission (or write them snail mail) at:

Miami Open Air Mission
14266 SW 176th Terrace
Miami, FL, 33177-0000
(305) 232-4173

Recently, Micah was assaulted at USF. I can't say I'm surprised. He's quite an asshole. Of course, I don't condone violence, but I am amazed that this man hasn't been beaten more severely already. I'm sure it would feed his martyr complex if it did happen.

While I enjoyed and was entertained by the spectacle of Brother Jed, and had decent rational dialogue with Tom Short, this Micah is just a bastard. (See my review of UF Campus Preachers: Part 1, Part 2) What I now realize is that my interactions with him just augment the crowd, and so I've decided not to stop by for long if I see him out there again. I don't mind having a big crowd when there's a real dialogue -- like with Tom or Jed. This loudmouth ass just uses volume control to drown out refutations, questions and corrections.

He made the UCF paper last semester, and there's a really good Myspace of him at UCF here. So that's USF, FAU, UCF and now UF. FSU, you're next!

You can see lots of their other Youtube videos here, most of them from FAU. My favorite part in that former (UCF) vid was when the girl told him, "Your preaching makes me so horny..." and put her tongue between her fingers. I about died laughing when he told her she was trying to seduce him. I wish I could embed it, but Myspace won't let you. Check it out here.

The second best of the Youtubes is prolly this one at FAU, which even got Digged. A young professor of literature there at FAU, Brian Spears, wrote this and this about Micah on FAU campus.

Here's my favorite video of Micah from UF -- the "It's not okay to be gay" song:

I saved the best one from the other campuses as a Youtube below:

Micah has now joined the "hall of shame" in my review of UF Campus Preachers: Part 1, Part 2.
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