Hayley Williams Hopes Christian Music Industry ‘Crumbles’ Amid Michael Tait Scandal: ‘Fuck All of You Who Knew and Didn’t Say Anything’
Paramore singer Hayley Williams has reacted angrily to reports that Christian music star Michael Tait has been accused of sexual assaults in his past relationships with young men, writing in an Instagram post: “I hope the CCM industry crumbles. And fuck all of you who knew and didn’t do a damn thing.”
While excoriating those in the Christian music business she believes covered up Tait’s alleged behavior, she also shows some sympathy for the former Newsboys and DC Talk singer, saying he has spent decades in the limelight denying his sexual identity and “needing gay-affirming support. Because this is a man whose entire faith identity is built upon a faulty structure of self-hatred, to please a system that would rather cover up abhorrent behavior for 20+ years (and make money off of it) rather than accept that being gay is not the problem.”
“The amount of things I have to say and the amount of people i know who were likely changed forever by this man and by the industry that empowered/enabled him… and no one but the TikToker who broke this story has said a word about Michael Tait needing gay-affirming support,” Williams says at the beginning of her message.
After writing that “being gay is not the problem,” the Paramore singer further wrote, “I grew up around this. I am not afraid of any of these people — most of them have written me off anyway by now. How many stories like this from this VERY small corner of the music industry will we hear before we realize that capitalizing on people’s faith and vulnerability is the ‘sin.'”
She concludes her message by saying: “I hope the CCM industry crumbles. And fuck all of you who knew and didn’t do a damn thing. I bet I’ve got your number. And btw if you’re not angry too then maybe it’s time to question why.”
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/hayl...236430953/
Paramore singer Hayley Williams has reacted angrily to reports that Christian music star Michael Tait has been accused of sexual assaults in his past relationships with young men, writing in an Instagram post: “I hope the CCM industry crumbles. And fuck all of you who knew and didn’t do a damn thing.”
While excoriating those in the Christian music business she believes covered up Tait’s alleged behavior, she also shows some sympathy for the former Newsboys and DC Talk singer, saying he has spent decades in the limelight denying his sexual identity and “needing gay-affirming support. Because this is a man whose entire faith identity is built upon a faulty structure of self-hatred, to please a system that would rather cover up abhorrent behavior for 20+ years (and make money off of it) rather than accept that being gay is not the problem.”
“The amount of things I have to say and the amount of people i know who were likely changed forever by this man and by the industry that empowered/enabled him… and no one but the TikToker who broke this story has said a word about Michael Tait needing gay-affirming support,” Williams says at the beginning of her message.
After writing that “being gay is not the problem,” the Paramore singer further wrote, “I grew up around this. I am not afraid of any of these people — most of them have written me off anyway by now. How many stories like this from this VERY small corner of the music industry will we hear before we realize that capitalizing on people’s faith and vulnerability is the ‘sin.'”
She concludes her message by saying: “I hope the CCM industry crumbles. And fuck all of you who knew and didn’t do a damn thing. I bet I’ve got your number. And btw if you’re not angry too then maybe it’s time to question why.”
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/hayl...236430953/
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"
