Young Woman Rebukes Gay Artist at Gospel Concert, Gets Her Mic Cut: 'You're Going Against the Word of God!'

As reported by Protestia, a young woman stood up at a gospel concert at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and did something most preachers in America won't do anymore. She opened the Bible and told a room full of professing Christians that they were cheering for sin. Before she could finish, her microphone was cut off.

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The event was the 2026 Homecoming Gospel Concert, and the lineup included Tye Tribbett, Preston Jonzell, and B. Slade. B. Slade, whose real name is Anthony Charles Williams II, used to perform as Tonéx. He is a Grammy-nominated, award-winning gospel artist and a former pastor. He left his wife and came out as gay in 2009, and he now regularly performs in effeminate costume, including a long wig. According to Protestia, some people walked out during his set, but most stayed.

When he finished, the young woman took the stage. She said the Lord had given her something to say, then read 1 Corinthians 5:9-12. In that passage Paul tells the church not to keep company with anyone who calls himself a brother but lives in fornication. Then she spoke straight to the crowd and the organizers. She asked how people who call themselves Christians could approve of a man getting up on stage in a wig and calling it praise to Jesus. She explained that being effeminate means a man dressing like a woman, and she said that if they accepted that, they were "going against the word of God." Partway through, the sound crew cut her mic and played Mary Mary's "Go Get It" over her.

She Was Right

You may not like her timing or her setting, but you can't argue with her Bible. God says plainly, "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God" (Deuteronomy 22:5). Paul lists "effeminate" right alongside fornicators and idolaters as those who "shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). And the passage she read says, "But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator... with such an one no not to eat" (1 Corinthians 5:11).

That's the heart of it. Paul wasn't talking about lost people in the world. He was talking about people inside the church who claim the name of Christ and live in open sin. A gospel concert that puts an openly gay, cross-dressing man on stage to lead "worship" is doing exactly what Paul told Corinth to stop doing.

Cutting the Mic Says It All

Notice what happened when Scripture was read out loud at a "gospel" concert: they shut it off and turned the music back up. That tells you everything about the modern gospel music industry. The beat is welcome. The Book is not. "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears" (2 Timothy 4:3).

This is also an industry that has made peace with scandal for years. Protestia points out that Tye Tribbett, who also performed that night, admitted to an affair in 2009 with a member of his own choir. Repentance and restoration of a marriage is a wonderful thing, but the bigger picture is an entertainment culture that treats holiness as optional as long as the music is good.

The Church Needs More of This

A lot of grown men with pulpits have stayed silent on this for years, and God used a young woman with a Bible to say what they wouldn't. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil" (Isaiah 5:20). The answer for B. Slade, and for anyone caught in sin, is not applause. It is repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, who still saves. "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus" (1 Corinthians 6:11). Loving someone means telling them the truth before it's too late.

Source: Protestia. Video: Protestia on X. Cover image: AI-generated illustration of the scene, not an actual photo of the event.

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