http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iRNbC-aSFLc#!

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

This song really made me stop and think when I was a kid.

Wow. That reminds me of the little boy on CNN Anderson last night. He was singing on a YouTube video that went viral at his church about "god is right the Bible is right somebody's wrong ain't no homo gonna make it o heaven." And the whole congregation cheered him on. The boy's face was blurred out but you could tell he wasn't much older than three. So so sad.

Obviously they don't air South Pacific on television in the great state of Indiana.

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I like those lyrics, xyz. Thanks for sharing.

Don, that song was the thing that made me realize the Mormon church was racist, homophobic, and misogynist 35 years ago. After I watched that video it was all I could think of as an appropriate response.

I know, xyz. I could imagine Roger Waters singing those dark lyrics. Dark Side of Humanity.

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Maybe there's some hope for the rest of America

But I feel sick for those little kids and the cheering, clapping adults.

Ain't no haters gonna make it ON EARTH, let alone in HEAVEN.

What is even sicker is watching the shameless backpedaling of those church people.