# NYC School wont allow "God Bless the USA" song at graduation

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**Created:** [June 11, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyc-school-wont-allow-god-bless-the-usa-song-at-graduation/264063 "2012-06-11T20:31:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyc-school-wont-allow-god-bless-the-usa-song-at-graduation/264063/6 "2012-06-12T02:31:56Z")

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> [@What should I do about this (cop sh\*t)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-should-i-do-about-this-cop-sh-t/49873/9):
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> You guys are surprised?
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> This country doesn’t want anything to do with God (the reason it was first founded). I’m surprised people even say God Bless America in song or in general speech now; this country ditched God long ago. They might as well remove “God” from such songs, the currency, etc.
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> Anytime you tell someone you actually believe in God, you get one of these looks (my presence on this site is pretty good evidence of that - all the ridicule I’ve gotten for my beliefs):
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> ![http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/rr_s13/donotwant.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/d/d/dd49243f592beea5e451b44da384826b0399d7de.jpeg)

That’s because even during extremely religious times the men were smart enough to bar fanaticism from a new free world.

> It has often been seen on the Internet that to find God in the Constitution, all one has to do is read it, and see how often the Framers used the words “God,” or “Creator,” “Jesus,” or “Lord.” None of these words ever appears in the Constitution, neither the original nor in any of the Amendments. This lack of any these words does not mean that the Framers were not spiritual people, any more than the use of the word Lord means that they were. What this lack of these words is expositive of is not a love for or disdain for religion, but the feeling that the new government should not involve itself in matters of religion. In fact, the original Constitution bars any religious test to hold any federal office in the United States.

The reasoning behind replacing the song is stupid. New choice of the song is even dumber. I’d be offended to be forced to listen to Bieber on any day of significance to myself.

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