The decision to create this "anthem" seems politically inadvisable. Why would you do something you know will offend a large portion of Americans? This sort of thing reinforces the perception that immigrants want to change America rather than assimilating into it.
Personally, I think the entire concept at work here is stupid. It makes me mildly annoyed that the song is being changed, but not nearly enough to prompt me to actually do anything about it.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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