Alabama Governor Says My Way Or No Way

Alabama’s Governor: My Way or No Way By Elton Camp In office only for the second day, Governor says do religion his way The deacon in the Baptist Church Wants us not to be left in the lurch He says, “I want to be your brother,” But it requires his belief and no other And Jesus as savior you have to accept Or into the deep abyss you’ll be swept If you want to be my brother or my sister Then listen to me, M’am, Ms or Mister If Jew, Shinto, Buddhist, agnostic or Islam Then the wrong way I say that you’ve come People thought a governor they’d elected A statewide pastor they had not expected To his personal belief the man has a right Speaking as governor, keep it out of sight He apologized, but not for the thing he said Will his tenets the man continue to spread? If his “core beliefs” made anybody get mad, As a “born-again Christian” it’s just too bad It was a wrong way his governorship to begin Alabama’s unsavory past had come to an end But what does our brand new governor then do Except hateful prejudice to promptly renew?