‘Whole Thing Needs To Burn’—Former Newsboys Producer Steve Taylor Discusses Michael Tait-Newsboys Scandal

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“[You] struggle with watching rape happen?” Taylor said. “Oh, really? No, you’re freaking guilty, and you watched it happen. Are you kidding me?”

“What are we talking about here? It was really disgusting,” Taylor emphasized. He described the situation as a “a cover-up of, like, mafia-like crap, and the whole thing needs to burn.”

As he concluded his interview, Taylor shared the mood he’s witnessed in the CCM world since the news of Tait has broken.

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“It’s just sadness and [disgust],” he said. “I think the first report…was like, wow, that’s really messed up. The second report is, wow, that’s gotta stop. Where are the police? Where’s justice? Like, that’s just unbelievable.”

Taylor explained, “I’m not trying to compare the two, but the magnitude of this second report was mind-boggling, [because] you’ve got video evidence, and you’ve got police evidence, and you’ve got [the survivor’s] story and her history and a ministry involved—it sickens me.”

“We all are sinners. We all need God’s grace, but we also need the old sunlight as the best disinfectant,” Taylor said.

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Jesse T. Jackson
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