In a Rolling Stone article by Andy Greene, Hozier went on to expand on how his upbringing and living in Ireland has inspired the hit song saying, "Growing up, I always say the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I essentially just put that into my words (Greene, 6)." The particular scandal that inspired Hozier to write his chart topping hit was the Irish Child Abuse Commission 2009 when the Commission said in its harrowing five-volume report, that orphanages and industrial schools in 20th century Ireland were places of fear, neglect, and endemic sexual abuse (Gergely, 8). In these reports were multiple accounts of homosexual encounters between those high in the church and children. Th is the hypocrisy Hozier speaks of. How can a religion condemn homosexual practices when their pastors and people in higher power are doing the same thing in secret? And why should someone keep their love a secret? Hozier went on to find an anti-LGBT protest in Russia as another inspiration for another part of Take Me to
In a Rolling Stone article by Andy Greene, Hozier went on to expand on how his upbringing and living in Ireland has inspired the hit song saying, "Growing up, I always say the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I essentially just put that into my words (Greene, 6)." The particular scandal that inspired Hozier to write his chart topping hit was the Irish Child Abuse Commission 2009 when the Commission said in its harrowing five-volume report, that orphanages and industrial schools in 20th century Ireland were places of fear, neglect, and endemic sexual abuse (Gergely, 8). In these reports were multiple accounts of homosexual encounters between those high in the church and children. Th is the hypocrisy Hozier speaks of. How can a religion condemn homosexual practices when their pastors and people in higher power are doing the same thing in secret? And why should someone keep their love a secret? Hozier went on to find an anti-LGBT protest in Russia as another inspiration for another part of Take Me to