Alabama Governor: My Way or No Way

The new governor gets off to a bad start.

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?