For those who didn’t have the opportunity to watch the Values Voter Debate last evening, you missed quite a display of political pandering, ridiculous rhetoric and all-around right-wing lunacy. You also missed this lovely rendition of “God Bless America” performed by the Church of God Choir, from Springfield, Ohio – reworded to better reflect the Right’s agenda:

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Lyrics transcribed below:

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

(Reading from 2nd Chronicles 7:14) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land

God have mercy on America forgive her sins and heal our land.