All but a handful of the Republican presidential candidates took part the other night in a so-called Values Voters Debate in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., hosted by several leaders of the religious right.
A choir from Ohio enlivened the proceedings with a rendition of "God Bless America" in which the lyrics were changed to an anti-American litany of the nation's wrongs as perceived by religious extremists.
The new lyrics are as follows:
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
There are only two things wrong those new lyrics: One, they're full of lies. Two, they lack even a hint of homophobia.
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