Tait publicly confessed about accusations towards him. He acknowledged his actions as sinful.
“I’m ashamed of my life decisions and actions and make no excuses for them,” Tait mentioned.
“I’ll merely name it what God calls it – sin. Whereas I’d dispute sure particulars within the accusations towards me, I don’t dispute the substance of them.”
He continued his assertion by addressing his path ahead.
“Even earlier than this latest information grew to become 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 onerous 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 trade’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 doubtless modified without end by this man and by the trade 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 assist.”
She additionally expanded her criticism to deal with what she sees as systemic points throughout the Christian music trade.
“As a result of this can be a man who’s complete religion identification is constructed upon a defective construction of self-hatred, to please a system that may reasonably cowl up abhorrent conduct for 20+ years (and generate income off of it) reasonably than settle for that being homosexual will not be the issue,” Williams continued.
Williams then concluded her assertion with direct criticism of trade 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 trade will we hear earlier than we understand that capitalising on individuals’s religion and vulnerability is the ‘sin.’ I hope the CCM trade crumbles. And fuck all of you who knew and didn’t do a rattling factor. Wager I’ve bought your quantity. And by the best way, should 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.
