Evangelical preacher and social media influencer “Sister Cindy” spoke at California State University Long Beach about female promiscuity on Friday.
Cynthia Smock, known online as Sister Cindy, has gathered an online following for her preaching about female promiscuity with the catchphrase “Ho No Mo” and urges women to follow God and reject modern ideas of “hoeness” and sexuality.
Cindy is one of many campus preachers who make a name for themselves traveling to colleges and universities across the country and spreading religious messaging.
When asked, Cindy cited her reasoning for why she preaches about female immodesty.
“I used to wear the hoe chain, after a while, the hoe chain grows heavy! …But then I found out God didn’t plan for me to wear the hoe chain,” she said while holding a physical chain to represent the “hoe chain”.
While Cindy spoke, a small crowd of students formed around her, actively engaging with her instead of arguing about who she accommodated, moving her setup to the shade so students could sit and listen.
However, most in the crowd did not seem to take her seriously, with many even making jokes at her expense.
Most seemed to simply be indulging her because they found her talking points funny and after about an hour of her speaking, a majority of the crowd had thinned out.
This seems to be a standard whenever Cindy visits a college campus, as when she visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the school’s student-run publication, “The Daily Cardinal”, reported a very similar response when she spoke at the campus last September.
Despite this, there were some students who seemed to take her more seriously and even seemed to agree with her words.
“I like it when she comes here… she tells people ‘hey, don’t ruin your lives,” said Valerie Meulenberg, a student at CSULB and self-proclaimed Catholic.
