Following an investigation printed by the Roys Report accusing standard Christian rock singer Michael Tait of a decades-long sample of grooming and sexual assault, Paramore singer Hayley Williams has known as for a bigger reckoning within the Up to date Christian music (CCM) trade.
Primarily based on interviews with greater than 50 sources, the preliminary report detailed accusations from three victims towards the DC Discuss co-founder and former Newsboys member. It was adopted by a separate investigation in The Guardian, which prompted Williams’ fiery response.
Williams, who grew up within the Christian music world, shared her passionate emotions concerning the trade allegedly enabling Tait’s habits in a press release posted to her Instagram Story. “nobody however the tiktoker who broke this story has stated a phrase about michael tait needing homosexual affirming help,” she wrote, preserving her unique lowercase type.
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“this can be a man [whose] total religion identification is constructed upon a defective construction of self-hatred, to please a system that might relatively cowl up abhorrent habits for 20+ years (and make cash off of it) relatively than settle for that being homosexual is just not the issue,” she continued. “what number of tales like this from this VERY small nook of the music trade will we hear earlier than we understand that capitalizing on folks’s religion and vulnerability is the ‘sin.’ i hope the ccm trade crumbles.”
Concluding her assertion, Williams instantly addressed those that might have recognized about Tait’s alleged habits: “fuck all of you who knew and didnt do a rattling factor. i wager ive acquired your quantity. and btw if youre not indignant too then perhaps its time to query why.”
To Williams’ level about complicity, The Guardian piece was primarily based on interviews with 25 folks within the Christian music trade, “most of whom say that they had prior data of allegations that Tait had engaged in abusive habits.”
For his half, Tait shared a press release on Instagram earlier this week addressing the allegations. He admitted to cocaine and alcohol abuse, in addition to “contact[ing] males in an undesirable sensual means… I don’t blame anybody or something however myself. Whereas I’d dispute sure particulars within the accusations towards me, I don’t dispute the substance of them.”
If you happen to or somebody you realize has been impacted by sexual misconduct, you’ll be able to attain out for help:
RAINN Hotline
1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
http://www.rainn.org
Disaster Textual content Line
SMS: Textual content “HERE” to 741-741
http://www.facebook.com/crisistextline (chat help)
