"Devil" banned from Virginia school by wingnut

This may sound like a halloween diary but it is not.  The Hylton high school marching band has been banned from playing the 1979 Charlie Daniels Band hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" because of a complaint about the separation of church and state.

The irony is in the nature of who complained...  More below.

WaPo Link: 'Devil' Cast out of Pr. William

Seems that the Hylton high-school band has been invited to play at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta in December, and wanted a Georgia-themed song.  So "The Devil went down to Georgia" was a perfect fit.  The band performed it at a game.  A man complained.  The man is not a parent of a kid at the school - he's a certified wingnut who is home-schooling his children (or more likely, his wife is doing all the work).  Nobody at Hylton has complained, in fact the parents of the kids at the school are unanimous in their support for it.  The song is no more about the devil than any one of a number of fairy tales.  

What gets me about it is that the same people who are trying to keep an innocent song out of our schools are the ones who are trying to force God into education by mandating school prayer, forcing displays of Christian religious symbols (e.g. the Ten Commandments), removing science (evolution) and replacing it with religion (creationism a.k.a. "intelligent design.").  These people know no boundaries.  As my wife said, they have no problem when it's Christianity taught in school, but if any other religion is mentioned then it needs to be squashed, and since this song has the "Devil" in it (which, oddly enough, I think is limited to Christianity as well - I don't believe the devil himself appears in the old testament but maybe he/it does in Job...) then the wingnuts want to keep it away from our kids.

Whatever.

Song has been removed.  School didn't have the time/energy to risk a lawsuit.  Wingnuts 1, Forces of Reason 0.

-Fred