Following an investigation revealed by the Roys Report accusing common Christian rock singer Michael Tait of a decades-long sample of grooming and sexual assault, Paramore singer Hayley Williams has referred to as for a bigger reckoning within the Up to date Christian music (CCM) business.
Based mostly 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 in regards to the business allegedly enabling Tait’s habits in an announcement posted to her Instagram Story. “nobody however the tiktoker who broke this story has mentioned a phrase about michael tait needing homosexual affirming help,” she wrote, preserving her unique lowercase fashion.
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“it is a man [whose] complete religion identification is constructed upon a defective construction of self-hatred, to please a system that may somewhat cowl up abhorrent habits for 20+ years (and make cash off of it) somewhat than settle for that being homosexual will not be the issue,” she continued. “what number of tales like this from this VERY small nook of the music business will we hear earlier than we understand that capitalizing on individuals’s religion and vulnerability is the ‘sin.’ i hope the ccm business crumbles.”
Concluding her assertion, Williams immediately addressed those that could have recognized about Tait’s alleged habits: “fuck all of you who knew and didnt do a rattling factor. i wager ive bought your quantity. and btw if youre not offended too then possibly its time to query why.”
To Williams’ level about complicity, The Guardian piece was primarily based on interviews with 25 individuals within the Christian music business, “most of whom say they’d prior data of allegations that Tait had engaged in abusive habits.”
For his half, Tait shared an announcement 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.”
In the event you or somebody you realize has been impacted by sexual misconduct, you may 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.fb.com/crisistextline (chat help)
