Welcome to The Wally Show Aftercast, all the stuff we did not get to during the course of the show today.

So I'm back. Before I left, there was kind of a, sadly, a scandal that was breaking inside of Christian music.

And I purposely stayed out of it. People were asking me, hey, you know, are you going to comment on this?

And it centers around Michael Tate and the newsboys

and him having a moral failure and like even some drug use and stuff. And like I had stayed out of it

because A, not all the facts are in in the beginning. And a lot of times you comment on things and then

things either get worse or they're not what were reported. And so I just kind of stayed out of it because two, most people probably didn't even know what had happened and what had gone on.

And I'm like, I don't want to pour water or gas on this fire and then have people that are like, oh, I had no idea what was going on.

Oh, now I'm going to go see this. And now you get drug into this scandal.

But then all of a sudden it broke and it made it on to like Good Morning America and bigger

things like that.

And I still wasn't in like, oh, I'm going to comment about, you know, Michael Tate on this

because I look, the guy messed up.

He did some bad things.

He's trying to own it. That's between him and God. He's got to figure that stuff out. And I'm not someone that walks away from people who make mistakes. Because the reality is every Christian artist, every Christian radio host has sin in their life. None of us have the right to do any of this stuff. None of us are without blame. We're just fortunate enough

to be able to. And then some people have different areas that they're broken in and that other

people maybe don't struggle in. And so I really, again, I kind of stayed out of this. And so

like after the scandal broke, the whole Christian music industry, though, was put on blast. Like online and in socials,

people were like, oh, they're all hypocrites and it's filled with fallen people. And yeah,

I mean, it's filled with fallen people. That's true. But not everybody is a massive hypocrite.

Christian musicians are imperfect. They're fallible people. and these moral failures are not widespread or rampant

like they want you to believe.

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