I'm sorry. I don't recognize any principle requiring me to sing only songs I agree with (depending a bit on the venue, of course). If I anxiously tried see whether I agreed with all the words in a song before I sang it, singing would not be much fun. When I decided to leave a particularly P.C. folk group (which shall be nameless) I sang them "Okie from Muskogie," with great feeling, and then split. And really, I don't believe most of those words - probably no more than Merle Haggard does, even!!

When I was a boy, my mother sang hymns all the time, and I know she had doubts about most of Christian theology. So what's wrong with that? And I will sing along on wimpy stuff like "Amazing Grace" and "Further Along," which should pass muster with the Unitarians, but I much prefer "Blood of the Lamb," or "Standing on the Promises." The real, gutsy stuff.

And I would sing whaling songs, too, if there were any that I thought were any good.