Origins: CRASS gospel song - where's it from

Subject: Origins: CRASS gospel song - where's it from
From: frogprince
Date: 31 Mar 06 - 10:31 PM

Not doing this one just to "copycat", except for the obvious title thing. Back when the "worst song" thread ran, I recalled that my choice would have been an abysmal serious "gospel" song that I have heard sung in church at least twice, almost 30 years and 900 miles apart. I tried googling it again, and my own reference to it is all that comes up. I'm fairly sure two of the lines are "fools are marching for the right to justify their sin", which I think was basically anti gay, and "the Supreme Court is tearing down the morals of our land".
Who knows this little inspirational jewel? Who wrote, or recorded, the thing?

Subject: RE: Origins: CRASS gospel song - where's it from
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 08:35 PM

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Subject: RE: Origins: CRASS gospel song - where's it from
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 03:35 PM

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Subject: Lyr Add: THIS LITTLE CHILD (Scott-Wesley Brown)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 01:56 AM

I Googled with the phrase "the right to justify their sin" and got 43 hits.

Lyrics copied from http://crossring.com/articles/manik1.asp.html –
With additional lyrics copied from http://livingquest.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_livingquest_archive.html

THIS LITTLE CHILD
Scott-Wesley Brown

1. Who would have thought that long ago, so very far away,
A little child would be born and in a manger laid?
And who would have thought this little child was born the king of kings
The son of just a carpenter but for whom the angels sing?
And who would have thought that as he grew and with other children played,
This child with whom they laughed and sang would die for them some day?
And who would have thought this little child could make the blind man see,
Feed the hungry, make rich the poor, and set the sinner free?
Oh, who would have thought this little child was who the prophets said
Would take away the sins of men and rise up from the dead?

CHORUS: And I believe and I will always sing
This little child is the king.
Oh, I believe and I will always sing
This little child he is the king of kings.

2. Many years have come and gone yet this world remains the same.
Empires have been built and fallen. Only time has made a change.
Nation against nation, brother against brother,
Men so filled with hatred, killing one another,
And over half the world is starving while our banner of decency is torn,
Debating over disarmament, killing children before they're born,
And fools who march to win the right to justify their sin.
Oh, every nation that has fallen has fallen from within.
Yet in the midst of this darkness, there is a hope, a light that burns.
This little child, the king of kings, some day will return.

3. Who would have thought this little child is who the prophets said
Will return to judge this world, the living, and the dead?
Oh, can't you see that long ago, so very far away,
This little child, our only hope, was born a king that day?
And can't you see that here and now as unto him we pray,
This lord of lords who is our hope is still king today?
He's still the king today.

[Recorded by Scott-Wesley Brown and by Katrina Rae.
[This song is even on a couple of Chrismas albums!]

Subject: RE: Origins: CRASS gospel song - where's it from
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 07:07 AM

That reads, to me, as an anti-abortion lyric rather than anything "anti-gay".

Subject: RE: Origins: CRASS gospel song - where's it from
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 11:47 AM

It fairly cries out for parody.

Subject: RE: Origins: CRASS gospel song - where's it from
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 12:38 PM

If you think the SONG is sickening, try reading some of the web sites that quote from it.

There are quite a few people who find it inspiring.