Dubious Achievements

Dearest WOLT: You are messing with the wrong woman

Today is International Women’s Day, and as a woman raised in an extremist sect of ‘The Message’ led by William Branham, I was known as “The Weaker Sex.”

I was indoctrinated to believe I was born incapable of making rational and just decisions. The men, from my father to Elder Eric to my husband, had the right to the final say. Months before I married, Elder Eric sat me down and said, “If your husband dislikes a southern gospel music group you do like, he has the right to remove it from your home and prohibit you from listening.”

After I got dressed, my husband had the right to do a once-over with veto rights. If he dubbed my apparel inappropriate or for the simple fact of dislike, I had to change.

The women served the men. There wasn't a time in my childhood home when my bio dad made his meal; the simplicity of one-minute cheese nachos was too feminine of action for him. He would sit at the head of the table, waiting for my mom to place plates of grandiose meals in front of him, day in and day out.

Women in the cult had a long list of rules to abide by. To name a few:

• Hems of skirts/dresses must be below the knees when sitting or standing

• No cat-eye-style glasses

• Hair must be uncut and long as a symbol of submission to their husbands

• Heels must be no higher than 3”

• No makeup/must remain natural (eyes are the window to the soul/sex glands are in the lips)

• No wearing of any garment pertaining to a man

• No word placement on shirts/hoodies at chest level

• No caps for hats

• No piercings or tattoos

• No over-the-knee boots (too sexy)

• No strappy sandals (too sexy)

• No pyjama pants/shorts

• Nightwear must be negligees or nighties

• No nail polish

• No anklets

• No fishnets

• No bikinis

• No low-cut shirts in the back or front

• No sleeveless shirts/no cap sleeves

• If you are wearing an undershirt, it must be pinned to your bra straps to eliminate the repetitive motion of pulling it up, distracting the leader.

• No panty lines

• No high slits (They must be below the knee)

• No hugging men (other than your husband or dad)

• No birth control

• The sexual needs of your husband are not to be denied (wedding vow)

• Skirts must be worn over snow pants in the winter (I have been called “A Flying Nun” on the ski hill)

• Women were not allowed positions of leadership.

The men of leadership and manipulation experts called the rules “A Way of Life.”

The men would say a good, godly Christian woman is a rare jewel in a man’s crown, but the truth is, the men of “The Message” hate women; the prophet they follow said so.

Here are quotes from ‘The Message’ of William Branham:

But I can remember when my father’s still up there running, I had to be out there with water and stuff, see young ladies that wasn’t over seventeen, eighteen years old, up there with men my age now, drunk. And they’d have to sober them up and give them black coffee to get home to cook their husband’s supper. Oh, something like that, I said, “I…” This was my remark then, “They’re not worth a good clean bullet to kill them with it.” That’s right. And I hated women. That’s right. And I just have to watch every move now, to keep from still thinking the same thing.

Dear reader, you’re not hallucinating. You read that correctly: “They’re not worth a good, clean bullet to kill them with.”

Take his…take the nature of Elijah. Look at Elijah; see what he was. What was he when he come in John’s time? He hated denominations: “You Pharisees, don’t think to say within yourself, ‘We have Abraham to our Father,’ because God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” So did Elijah. Both of them hated women, or immoral women, and things doing wrong. Look at Elijah with Jezebel. Look at John the Baptist with Herodias. See? Both wilderness men, loved the woods, and outside. Come right out of the bushes and send forth a Message. He will come on the scene one of these days.

He will also hate fancy women! Elijah did: Jezebel. Is that right? John did: Herodias. Both them prophets, the Spirit, the same Spirit. They hated the denominational world, the church world. They hated, also, fancy, no-good women. They…Something in their spirit cried out against the thing! Jezebel was after Elijah’s head and was going to cut it off; and she also had John’s head cut off, Herodias did. Both of them!

Now we find out, and in this message, Isaiah 40:3 also vindicated John. He said, “A voice of one, a prophet, crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.’” The church did not believe him, for he was not of their group. That prophet was raised out of a wilderness, come up knowing no one. He had the very Spirit on him that Elijah had: he was a man of the wilderness, he hated immoral women.

William Branham preached the encouragement of the abuse of women:

Walked down on the beach there and there laid them women professed to have the Holy Ghost, laying out there, stretched out before men in bathing suits. Hmm. Brother, this might make you vomit, but let me tell you something. I've got a girl coming on myself. I said, "What are you doing, lady." I said, "Isn't that — your father a minister?" Said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well..." Said, "I'm getting a suntan." I said, "If my girl ever stretches herself out like that, she's going to get a sun tanning, but it is going to be Charlie Branham's son, give her a tan with a barrel slat and bring her home." That's right. I'd tan her. She'd... Well, she'd remember it a long time too. Amen.

And she pulled out a cigarette. She just shows her colors, what she is, when she does it. Now, let your face get red. And you men that'll let your wife smoke cigarettes, it shows what — who's the boss around the house. That's right. Let them lay out here in these little old beach clothes and things, lay out here before men stripped down... I've got a girl at home. She might lay out to get a suntan too. But brother, if she does, she's going to get a son-tan. It'd be Charlie Branham's son with a barrel slat behind her, bringing her home just as fast as I can bring her. That's right. I'll give her the kind of son-tanning she needs. Yes, sir. I mean that. God give us some good old... You talk about the literacy of Kentucky over here, where some of them old mammies would go back there and raise their young'ns... Why, it'd make you feel ashamed of yourself, then say, "They're ignorant." What's the matter with you? Oh, it's just...

I said, "Yes, ma'am." She gave me the bill. I marked it paid. Started to hand it to her, and one of these here old jig dancers, or ever what it is, come on with that, sawing that fiddle and carrying on, and playing some kind of a little old boogie-woogie music ever what it was; and that girl put on a little old clothes there, about enough to wad a shotgun, and it was pitiful. Listen. I got two girls, and if — if they call suntan. If one of mine, if God lets me live, she'll get a suntan if she puts it on, but Charlie Branham, my daddy's son, will give her the tan with a barrel slat just as hard as I can give it to her. That's the kind of a tanning she needs. Absolutely. Out there like that, no wonder the corruption of the world. How can you men and women... You men...

That's what they were doing in Sodom and Gomorrah. The natural use our bodies... The men become so plain to women today, there's not even respect. They'll hardly take off their hat, men will in front of women, and they have no respect for them at all. What did it? The women done it theirself. And you all talking about juvenile delinquency and things. I think it's parent delinquency. Some of you let your girls go out and run around all night with a cigarette-smoking, cocktail-drinking party. Come in the next morning with her clothes half off her, old make-up all over her face and that, And you call the Kentucky mothers ignorant. Write her patch down with those Dogpatch, Lil' Abner, and make fun of the Kentucky mothers. That's some of my people up in there. Let one of them girls...?... it up there and, brother, I'll tell you, she wouldn't get out of bed for six months. She'd take a hickory limb and beat what clothes she had left on her off. And if you had something like that back in the church today, you'd have better. Amen. God give us the old time mothers. I've got two girls coming. I don't know what they'll be.

And I've see them laying out on the beaches half naked before man stretching themselves out there, say they get a sun-tanning. Brother, I — I may not live. But if God lets me live and keep my right mind, if one of mine does it, she'll get a son-tanning. It'll be Mr. Branham's son with a barrel slat behind her. She'll be tanned all right. She'll know where it come from too. Yes, sir.

And now, some of you talk about the illiteracy of the hillbillies up in Kentucky there. But how the old grandmas with their long bonnets and things on... You know what? They could teach some of you city people how to behave yourself. That's right. Your little Martha Ann come in of a nighttime, and mess-up all over her face, and half drunk, and smoking a cigarette, and blowing it through her nose, and the stomp her foot, and scream at you. Let her do that to one of them old Kentucky mammys one time. She'd top a hickory, boy, or take something, or a barrel slat. When she got through, she'd know who was mammy around there. If you'd do that, you wouldn't have so many wrong men, and boys and girls in the world tonight. Let one of them strip theirselves in some these old dirty clothes like you let your kids wear out here, little old shorts, and ever what they call them. And let them one time. Uh-huh. You would find out how illiterate they were. She'd beat her till she'd be so full of welts, you couldn't get the clothes over the top of them. That's what needs to be done tonight. That's right.

The Bible said, Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart." When that sinner looks upon you and lusts after you, though he never touched you, when he answers for adultery, you are guilty of committing it with him. It's what the Bible says. Now, you can take some of these little two-by-fours if you want to, but that's what God said. That's what Christ said. Now, that's the truth. Oh, God be merciful. What must the great Holy Spirit think when He comes before the Father?

You say, "Why you picking on us women?" All right, men, here you are. Any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes and wear them kind of clothes, shows what he's made out of. He's not very much of a man. That's exactly right. True. He don't love her or he'd take a board and blister her with it. You know that's the truth. Now, I don't say that to be smart. I'm telling you the truth. That's right. What must the Holy Spirit think? Now, I'm going to put you both together. You that'll stay home on Wednesday night to see some old vulgar play like, "We love Sucy," or something like that, and stay out of prayer meeting, it shows what you're both made out of. That's exactly right. And that's the church. And on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and so forth, of a morning nine or ten o'clock you'll listen to some immoral person like Arthur Godfrey, with all of his dirty, ornery jokes, instead of a secret place in a room, praying and reading your Bible. That's right. You know that. And in your house that slandery, dirty, rock-and-roll, boogie-woogie stuff of Elvis Presley… There's only one difference between Elvis Presley and Judas Iscariot. Judas got thirty pieces of silver for selling out. Elvis got a few million dollars and a fleet of Cadillacs. That's all the difference.

Now, you say, "Brother Branham, you're really beating us women." All right. Here you men are. Any man that'll let his wife smoke cigarettes and wear clothes like that, it shows what he's made out of. He's not much man to him, a man that would do that. God give us old fashion, borned again, sainted, godly homes. Juvenile delinquency will be no more. It isn't juvenile delinquency; it's parent delinquency. They had the old wood shed and the big hickory limb laying over the door. That's discipline in our home. All right. You say, "Now, Brother Branham, I... We shouldn't hear that kind of stuff." You should hear it. That's right.^[17]

You talk about juvenile delinquency, I say it's parent delinquency. You talk about the ignorance of the Kentucky people, some of them old mammies out there... Let their daughters come home of a morning with lipstick all over their face, and hair all twisted up, and clothes half off of them, half...?... with a cigarette in their hand, they'd take a barrel slat, or one of them hickory saplings out there, and she'd know when she went out the next time. Then you say illiterate. They can teach this bunch of hoodlums how to raise children. That's... Oh, maybe I oughtn't to have said that. Well, no. I don't take it back. I said that when the Holy Spirit was anointing me. That's right, exactly right. Yes, sir. Today, huh... Oh, my

Women who wear makeup are called, “Dogmeat.”

Women, there was only one woman in the Bible that ever painted her face, and that was Jezebel. And God fed her to the dogs. So if you see a woman wearing that, you can say, "How do you do, Miss Dogmeat?" That's exactly what God called her. He fed her to the dogs. Exactly right.

The woman’s place was in the home, specifically the kitchen:

I predicted that women would keep demoralizing and the nation would keep falling, and they'd keep hanging to mother, or like mother like that, till they become, a woman become an idol. And after a while, that America would be ruled by a woman. Mark it and see if it's not right. A woman will take the place of a President or something, of great, some high power in America. When… I say this with respect, ladies. When a woman gets out of the kitchen, she's out of her place. That's right. That's where she belongs. Outside of that, she has no place. And now, I'm not hard on them, but I just tell what's the Truth and what the Bible. Used to be the man was the head of the house, but that was in Bible days. He isn't no more. He's the puppet, or he's the—or the babysitter or something. And now… No, they want to take care of a dog, practice birth control, and pack a little old dog around in their arms all the time, so you can run around all night.

Today, women is so brassy! Every… Their husband can't even talk. They got to stick right out there, a cigarette in their hand, a pair of shorts on, doing all the talking. How a perverted race of people, she's got to be chief cook and bottle washer, everything else! When she leaves the kitchen, she leaves her place of duty, right, as a mother. Now we find out, women then stayed back and behaved theirself, acted like ladies, their head was the one who did the decisions and things.

And you try to let some man tell his wife; she say, "I'll give you to understand right now!" [Brother Branham blows—Ed.] blowing that smoke out of her mouth, looking such, how the hideous looks. I never seen such! And you can imagine out there, and stand there watch that person, discern that spirit in there, and them things; and maybe singing in a choir in some church. Oh, such a day that we're living! No wonder we're at that day! I—I hope you can catch through the lines what I'm meaning.

When a woman gets from behind the table in the kitchen, in the house, taking care of her own little ministry God give her, her babies, she's out of the will of God. Put her in a pulpit, she's out of the will of God. There's no Scripture for a woman preacher. I want some man to stand and tell me that, look me in the face. There's no such a thing. That, Pentecost is the grassroots of that stuff. Never was! Adam was first formed, and then Eve. Adam was not deceived. But, yet, you do it. And you see where you got yourself? Way out here on a limb that you can't come back on now. But there you go. That's it. That's the world. That's what you want. That's what you want. That's what you got. See?"

The leader of the Sherwood Park, AB, Canada cult I am from said, “ From the perspective of the word of God, we can not be so euphoric. They are celebrating modern Israel and not biblical Israel. They were celebrating an Israel that is proud of such dubious achievements as empowered women, gay rights, and the power to choose.”

I Am That Dubious Woman

Word Of Life Tabernacle (WOLT) served me in January this year with a Cease and Desist. On Valentine’s Day, I was served another Cease and Desist attached to a Statement of Claim wherein it was written that WOLT is suing me for 450,000 Canadian dollars. Their biggest claim of harm is my calling of it cult.

I am not the first woman they have served a Cease and Desist; I have evidence of that, but I believe I am the first one they have served with a Statement of Claim. In calling around to law firms asking if I would be a conflict of interest for them, it was revealed that the cult has, within the last decade, pissed in almost all law firm ponds in Edmonton, cornering those of us on the outside who tell our stories. WOLT also sent emails to the podcast hosts and media outlets who have platformed me since 2019, demanding that they take down the articles and podcasts.

Counting on me to be that powerless, naive and controllable cult woman I once was, the cult placed my name beside the leader’s on the Cease and Desist, begging for my signature, which would silence my lip from telling my story until the day I die. I am proud of myself for in the cult; nobody took the time to know my name; I was known as “A Brown Girl.” Today, an empowered woman’s name, MY name, BREANNA BROWN, is beside the cult leaders in hopes of silence.

I signed it. See below:

I AM THAT EMPOWERED, HATED WOMAN

Legally given twenty days to write and file my Statement of Defence, on March 3, 2025, I walked into the Court of King’s Bench in Edmonton, AB, file in hand.

I told the clerk, “I am here to file my Statement of Defence.”

The clerk looked at me and said, “There is no file number. I can not file it.”

Me:....

Her, “Until you are served with a filed document, you are not being sued.”

Intimidation is what they do best. Cults run on fear; without fear and with empowered women at the helm, their pyramid scheme would crumble.

Perhaps it is crumbling.

But it’s not a cult, right?

Women who have suffered and who have been silenced at the hands of religious abuse, I will not be silenced; I fight for you, for the families who have been ex-communicated from their loved ones and for those who have lost their lives.

“Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.”

Happy International Women’s Day