"As has been said many times above, singing a song doesn't mean the singer agrees with what happens in the song!"

We went to a community singing group. Just a bunch of folk who sung for their own enjoyment in a house. One week there were a couple of women who said they objected to The Wee Cuper O Fife which had been one of the songs done the previous week. One had even written a new end verse for it basically saying we all know it is wrong to beat your wife etc. She said she didn't think we should sing it as men shouldn't think it is ok to hit women. As I was the only man there I took it as a bit of an insult. I know very well that domestic violence is wrong and have never hit my wife. The song was good enough for my mother to sing to me when I was wee :-)

Basically they got their way because the majority of folk don't want to cause a fuss so minority views (and it was a minority view) take precedence if the minority is vocal enough.