Following an investigation revealed by the Roys Report accusing well-liked 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 Modern Christian music (CCM) business.
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 in regards to the business allegedly enabling Tait’s conduct in an announcement 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 model.
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“it is a man [whose] whole religion id is constructed upon a defective construction of self-hatred, to please a system that may moderately cowl up abhorrent conduct for 20+ years (and make cash off of it) moderately than settle for that being homosexual shouldn’t 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 notice that capitalizing on folks’s religion and vulnerability is the ‘sin.’ i hope the ccm business crumbles.”
Concluding her assertion, Williams instantly addressed those that could have identified about Tait’s alleged conduct: “fuck all of you who knew and didnt do a rattling factor. i guess ive received your quantity. and btw if youre not offended too then perhaps its time to query why.”
To Williams’ level about complicity, The Guardian piece was based mostly on interviews with 25 folks within the Christian music business, “most of whom say that they had prior data of allegations that Tait had engaged in abusive conduct.”
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 recognize 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)
