So the right wingers are up in arms about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's horrible comments about America - comments Barack Obama has repudiated, rejected and denounced over and over again.
What I want to know, is when will the attendees of the September, 2007 Values Voter summit - who you can hear rapturously applauding - reject, repudiate and denounce this travesty? How many of them walked out while listening to this? *
"Why Should God Bless America?"
Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back
On everything that made her what she is.
Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sin and heal our land
The courts ruled prayer out of our schools
In June of ‘62
Told the children “you are your own God now
So you can make the rules”
O say can you see what that choice
Has cost us to this day
America, one nation under God,
has gone astray
Why should god bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is
Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land
In ‘73 the Courts said we
Could take the unborn lives
The choice is yours don’t worry now
It’s not a wrong, it’s your right
But just because they made it law
Does not change God’s command
The most that we can hope for is
God’s mercy on our land
Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is
Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land
I mean, unless I'm missing something, isn't the point of this song not "God Bless America", but "God is Damning America", or at the very least, something we've heard a lot about lately, namely "God Damn America"?
*The answers, of course, are never and none, respectively.
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