Tait publicly confessed about accusations in opposition to him. He acknowledged his actions as sinful.
“I’m ashamed of my life selections and actions and make no excuses for them,” Tait mentioned.
“I’ll merely name it what God calls it – sin. Whereas I would dispute sure particulars within the accusations in opposition to me, I don’t dispute the substance of them.”
He continued his assertion by addressing his path ahead.
“Even earlier than this current information turned public, I had began on a path to well being, therapeutic, and wholeness,” he mentioned.
“I settle for the results of my sin and am dedicated to persevering with the arduous work of repentance and therapeutic – work I’ll do quietly and privately, away from the stage and the highlight.”
Williams answered with a sequence of pointed criticisms posted to her Instagram tales. She focused the business’s dealing with of the state of affairs.
“The quantity of issues I’ve to say and the quantity of individuals I do know who have been probably modified eternally by this man and by the business that empowered/enabled him,” Williams wrote.
“And nobody however the TikToker who broke this story has mentioned a phrase about Michael Tait needing homosexual affirming help.”
She additionally expanded her criticism to deal with what she sees as systemic points inside the Christian music business.
“As a result of it is a man who’s whole religion id is constructed upon a defective construction of self-hatred, to please a system that will quite cowl up abhorrent habits for 20+ years (and become profitable off of it) quite than settle for that being homosexual is just not the issue,” Williams continued.
Williams then concluded her assertion with direct criticism of business figures and a name for accountability.
“I grew up round this. I’m not afraid of any of those people- most of them have written me off anyway by now,” she wrote.
“What number of tales like this from this VERY small nook of the music business will we hear earlier than we understand that capitalising on folks’s religion and vulnerability is the ‘sin.’ I hope the CCM business crumbles. And fuck all of you who knew and didn’t do a rattling factor. Wager I’ve obtained your quantity. And by the best way, when you’re not indignant too, then possibly it’s time to query why.”
The scandal has rocked the Christian music neighborhood. Tait holds a outstanding place as one of many style’s most recognizable figures.
