American Idol censors Jesus in “Shout to the Lord”?

How does American Idol just change the words of a song? How do you force the singers to sing Shepherd instead of Jesus? I would think that if the song was edited by American Idol and was not the voice of the singers they should be sued. How do you make singers sing both shepherd and Jesus? Seems to me that the singers kowtowed here. I would also think that the writer of the song could and should sue American Idol if they changed the wording of his song without permission.

‘American Idol’ features worship but censors Jesus

The prospect that America’s most-watch television program would feature a popular Christian worship song to close its fundraising special last night generated a buzz on the Internet, but some now are crying foul after the lyrics were altered to eliminate the word “Jesus.”

In the grand finale of “American Idol Gives Back,” eight “Idol” finalists performed “Shout to the Lord,” the song by Darlene Zschech of Australia’s Hillsong Church that has been sung in thousands of congregations around the world.

Zschech’s lyrics open with “My Jesus, My Savior, Lord there is none like You, All of my days, I want to praise, The wonders of Your mighty love.”

Instead of “My Jesus,” however, viewers last night heard the “American Idol” stars begin the song with “My shepherd,” as seen in a clip posted on YouTube.

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  1. They must have gotten a lot of comments about censoring the name of Jesus out of the song. On the Tuesday Idol Gives Back show the singers did use “shepherd” instead of Jesus, but on last night’s results show, the contestants again sang Shout To The Lord,and this time said Jesus.

    Wednesday performance:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=chXEraRnE4o

    Thursday performance:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=RHuWxfcIqW4

    What is very sad is that I saw on one website that discusses television shows tons of complaints from atheists upset that they used a Christian song on American Idol.

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