But he's the singer from all of "God's Not Dead" movies. Like in the first one, where all of the Christian characters at the end of the movie go to his concert to get filled with the holy ghost.
Quote:Former Newsboys Frontman Michael Tait Accused of Sexual Assault, Grooming, and Substance Abuse, Dating Back to 2004
It’s been called Nashville’s worst-kept secret. For decades, allegations have circulated that Newsboys frontman Michael Tait, formerly of DC Talk, had groomed and sexually assaulted numerous victims.
And after a two-and-a-half-year investigation by The Roys Report (TRR), which included interviewing more than 50 sources, TRR has documented Tait’s alleged predatory pattern with stories dating back more than two decades.
Three men spoke to TRR, alleging that Tait befriended them individually on Christian music tours in 2004, 2010, and 2014. They were all 22 years old at the time.
Two men stated that they were drinking alcohol with Tait and later woke to him fondling their genitals. One alleged Tait also offered him cocaine while on the Newsboys tour bus. The third told TRR that Tait gave him a back massage while skinny dipping and later invited him to share his king-size bed. There, Tait allegedly non-consensually massaged his anal region.
Tait, along with fellow Liberty University alumni Toby McKeehan (Toby Mac) and Kevin Smith (Kevin Max) made history in contemporary Christian music. In their 2019 book “Jesus Freak,” Will Stockton and D. Gilson call the band “nothing less than the Beatles of Christian music.”
During Tait’s time with the band, the Newsboys would score four number-one albums on the Billboard Christian charts, with 2011’s “God’s Not Dead,” reaching gold status. The album, and the subsequent lead song’s success, led to cameos in the multi-million-dollar film series, “God’s Not Dead.” The first film alone secured $64 million internationally at the box office for Pure Flix Entertainment, multiple successful Newsboys tours, and a swath of merchandise sales for the band.
Although there have been rumors of misconduct, Tait and his network’s influence and ability to blackball people from the industry have squelched them, sources say. The tide shifted Jan. 15, when TikTok influencer Azariah Southworth, who famously outed journalist Jonathan Merritt in July 2012, said in a video reel that Tait is gay. (After it garnered 250K views, that reel was removed by TikTok for “violent extremism.”)
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
