I didn't learn until today about all of the sexual grooming/abuse/assault allegations coming out against Michael Tait all this year. ("Allegations" seems like an understatement, but I guess that's the legal term since he hasn't been charged and convicted. Yet.)
Lots of feelings. He was one of my biggest idols as a teenager. But right now I've just gotta say: no wonder he's a Trump supporter. (For which I'd already gone off him, but this is… flattening.)

"Newsboys and DC Talk were held up by me, and so many Christians, as something to aspire to.

... The whole time - Michael Tait couldn’t have been a worse role model, or a more confused guide. To think, young Christians like me were scared of Nine Inch Nails and Ozzy Osbourne the whole time. We should have been more worried about some of the artists we'd see praising the name of Jesus on stage at Parachute."

@webworm, 2025

https://www.webworm.co/thedevil/

#Newsboys #DCTalk #MichaelTait #Parachute

I’ve loved Sarah Silverman for three decades, since her brief turn as Wendy Traston on The Larry Sanders Show. For the last several years, she’s opened her eponymously titled podcast with, “Hi, this is your friend, Sarah.”
I’ve almost felt like she was a friend, a trusted friend.
That is, until she broke my heart with one single, tasteless, totally inexplicable joke. Now, my trust has been shattered.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/asking-sarah-silverman-to-apologize-for-joke-about-child-molestation-55a81b35b719?sk=68b476076098e0d8237317f8aeeb4037

#LGBTQ #ChildAbuse #SexualAbuse #SarahSilverman #MichaelTait

Newsboys Reportedly Dropped From Label Following Michael Tait’s Confession to Unwanted Sexual Advances and Drug Use
#Variety #News #MichaelTait #Newsboys

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/newsboys-dropped-from-label-after-michael-tait-confession-1236439686/

*Gasp* someone in the MAGA sphere is a massive rapist.....where do they get this from?/s

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/michael-tait-sexual-assault-allegations

#MAGA #MichaelTait #Predators

#HayleyWilliams Speaks Out Against Disgraced #Christian Rocker #MichaelTait:

“I Hope the #CCM Industry Crumbles”

https://consequence.net/2025/06/hayley-williams-michael-tait-ccm-industry/

Williams, who grew up in the #Christianmusic world, shared her passionate feelings about the industry allegedly enabling Tait’s behavior in a statement posted to her Instagram Story. “no one but the tiktoker who broke this story has said a word about michael tait needing gay affirming support,” she wrote.

Hayley Williams Hopes Christian Music Industry ‘Crumbles’ Amid Michael Tait Scandal: ‘F— All of You Who Knew and Didn’t Say Anything’
#Variety #News #Hayleywilliams #MichaelTait #Newsboys #Paramore

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/hayley-williams-christian-music-crumbles-michael-tait-ccm-1236430953/

Popular #Christian Rock Singer #MichaelTait (#DCTalk, #Newsboys) Responds To Allegations Of #SexualMisconduct And #DrugUse

https://www.stereogum.com/2311338/popular-christian-rock-singer-michael-tait-dc-talk-newsboys-responds-to-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-and-drug-use/news/
https://julieroys.com/former-newsboys-frontman-michael-tait-accused-sexual-assault-grooming-substance-abuse-dating-back-to-2004/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n71xm5XJp0Y