Swimming Pools

William Branham's stage persona spoke strongly against the use of swimming pools, and some sects of Branham's "Message" cult today still forbid members to swim in a swimming pool.  Other sects of the cult permit the usage of a swimming pool, so long as it is not a public swimming pool.  Some sects specifically forbid women from swimming in a pool, due to Branham's statements encouraging the physical abuse of women for wearing bathing suits[1] and his statements about women's monthly period.[2]  Branham nicknamed the swimming pool "nudist camp".

They opened up a nudist camp up there by my place, you know, the swimming pool. And—and that man has got a ticket for every one of his children to go down there and swim in that pool. And he and his wife goes, too, in that pool. Excuse me, my sisters. But where them women in there swimming, about a hundred of them, or two, every day; women, all that filth and things, and the women today, and washing around in that water, that filth and dirt in their mouths, and swallowing it and spitting it out. I just want him to jump onto me, see. They said, "If—if Christ was living today, they would have Him arrested on account of that unsanitary thing.” How about that? I’m sure you catch what I mean. They go right in that pool, and many of them with diseases, syphilitic, gonorrhea, and everything else, right in there. And just spitting it through your mouth, and everything like that, and washing around in there like that. And that’s sanitary, of course?
Branham, William. 1961, July 23. The Ever (61-0723M).

In the (more accurate) versions of Branham's stage persona that claimed an Indiana childhood in the city instead of a Kentucky childhood in the country, Branham himself swam in a public swimming pool.[3] When traveling, William Branham would take his son, Joseph Branham, to the swimming pool,[4] and would visit the pool to see the people lounging around it.[5]  Converts were frequently baptized in the same water that Branham's stage persona claimed to be filthy, unsanitary, and filled with syphilis and gonorrhea.[6]

Except for those living near Branham's home in Tucson, Arizona, most converts to the "Message" cult are unaware that William Branham himself had a swimming pool.  They are also unaware that his family (girls included) wore bathing suits and swam.  The Tucson home had a rather large swimming pool, and the Branham family and guests used it.