To me, the term politically correct is a semantic ploy created by the religious right in order to denegrate strongly held points of view of folks they differ with. These day, to say something is P.C. is to say it is completely worthless. That said, I believe the proper term should be ethically correct. By making an ethical feeling political, one instantly relegates it to the scrapheap of disallowed and debunked philosophy. By calling it ethical I am simply saying that this is now a strongly held belief based on having taken a serious look at a difficult topic and balanced the available information and come to a decision of sorts. An example would be how I, personally, have decided about religion. It explains why I am more of an agnostic rather than the complete atheist I used to think I was.

I have made an ethically proper decision when I changed the song printed in Sing Out once as MASSA OB DE SHEEPFOL' (and all of it's lyrics) to the ethically proper title --- to me at least ---MASTER OF THE SHEEPFOLD. I also changed the lyrics to the one verse of CATFISH JOHN for the whole 25 years I sang it. I did that not for any political reason. I did it because it was ethically proper to do that from my viewpoint.

Art Thieme