Following an investigation revealed 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 Modern Christian music (CCM) {industry}.
Primarily based on interviews with greater than 50 sources, the preliminary report detailed accusations from three victims in opposition to 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 {industry} 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 assist,” she wrote, preserving her unique lowercase model.
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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 may quite cowl up abhorrent conduct for 20+ years (and make cash off of it) quite 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 {industry} will we hear earlier than we understand that capitalizing on individuals’s religion and vulnerability is the ‘sin.’ i hope the ccm {industry} crumbles.”
Concluding her assertion, Williams instantly addressed those that might have recognized about Tait’s alleged conduct: “fuck all of you who knew and didnt do a rattling factor. i guess ive obtained 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 based mostly on interviews with 25 individuals within the Christian music {industry}, “most of whom say they’d 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 approach… I don’t blame anybody or something however myself. Whereas I’d dispute sure particulars within the accusations in opposition to me, I don’t dispute the substance of them.”
Should you or somebody you understand has been impacted by sexual misconduct, you possibly can attain out for assist:
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 assist)
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