Regarding Jacksonville Ordinance Amendment 2012-296*.
Did they have an invocation at the Sodom City Council?
Did they all elect to bow their heads and pray?
When the boys all finished voting and each one put down his pencil,
Did they wish the vote had gone the other way?
When the meeting was adjourned, and they left to have their last meal,
Do you think they took the time to offer thanks?
Very smart, sophisticated, drinking wine; each one a big wheel,
They were healthy and had money in their banks.
When the horror came upon them, you can bet it made their heads reel,
Yeah, they really meant it that time when they prayed.
But their hope was all in vain, they could not before the Lord kneel,
For too late their sins were on the altar laid.
Now I don’t expect the Council will repeal the First Amendment.
Or that morals will usurp their civic zeal.
But for those whose hope in heaven is upon the Lord dependent,
Put Him first and your determination steel.
Louis William Rose
June 2012
* an ordinance adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” to the antidiscrimination provisions of the Jacksonville Ordinance Code, labeling as “discrimination” decisions based on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity or expression.”
