[Fiji Hill]

This is just an excuse to get rid of "God Bless America," a song viscerally hated by liberals who see America as a nation comprised of land stolen from the Indians and which got rich off the labor of Africn slaves. Perhaps they will replace it with this "patriotic" tune, conceived as a Communist and atheist alternative to "God Bless America."

This Land Is Your Land--Woody Guthrie (1944).

[jjotto]

They’re not getting rid of the song. They say they will switch to more live performances of it.

[MacNaughton]

29 This is just an excuse to get rid of "God Bless America," a song viscerally hated by liberals who see America as a nation comprised of land stolen from the Indians and which got rich off the labor of Africn slaves. …

5-10-2013 Gay ban costs NYC Boy Scouts a big donor

Of course the BSA voted 3 weeks later to accept homosexual youth as members so this threat was not apparently carried through.