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‘It destroyed me’: two more men accuse Christian rock star Michael Tait of sexual assault
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The founding manager of rock band Evanescence claims he was fired after reporting that Tait assaulted him. An Evanescence co-founder denies he was fired for that reason
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Oh I thought this about the Newsboys guy before opening it. Guess it was just another Christian rock guy sexually abusing people.
Edit: it is the Newsboys guy!
PowderhornHe gives actual journalists a bad name. (With apologies to Bon Jovi.)
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ID verification won't protect anyone from rapists like him.
But it just might protect PREDATORS from CONSEQUENCES by suppressing public knowledge of their crimes.
Jesus fucking Christ we need to riot.
We need to do more than riot
So again not drag queens. Always the ones we know do this.
When I was young, I went to several concerts for DC Talk (his band at the time) and the Newsboys (the band he became the frontman for).
While I'm still religious, I've since become an outspoken critic of corporate Christianity. Having a bunch of rich people singing pop songs to arenas full of people paying hundreds of dollars each with million-dollar lighting systems spotlighting the singers doesn't feel very humble and spiritual.
So it's fair to say I already had issues with this dude for profiteering of people's faith. With the newest revelations, I'm shaking with rage. This assholes and those who hid his actions pretended to be faithful servants while destroying lives and raking in profits and praise. They pretended to be exemplars of goodness so they could establish implicit trust, then used that trust to violate others.
Fuck them all.
So, Evanescence goes onto the garbage list now.
Reading this article, is that your takeaway from this? The band doesn't seem to have had much at all to do with it
Yeah this seems like one member was put in an awkward position at a young age and didn't have the understanding he now does. He did harm but seemingly unwillingly
I'm not entirely sure this can be put on the band. They were young people who had no idea how to handle or even see what was going on.
Agreed. This is more a combination of naive people being exploited by a sexual predator, and the tragic ripple effects of that.
But that said, I just looked up a history of Evanescence, and there appeared to be a lot of problems in their first incarnation. Some of that might be the effects of the abuse their male band members and management suffered. But there was also a lot of bad blood between Lee and Moody that seemed to predate Tait's abuse.
“Rape me to life”
Nirvana x Evanescence: a cursed YouTube mashup of there ever was one
My dyslexic brain somehow read that as "Chris Rock".
Neurospicy solidarity my friend
Yeah. How very predictable. At this point if I hear a loud Christian, I just assume they’re doing something really awful.
Jeeeeezus Christ. I'm printing copies of this article, taping them to bricks and launching them at anyone who tries to accuse the queens or queers of this shit