In America, if you’re going to talk about religion you better be ready to defend yourself, especially if what you have to say goes against quote/unquote “the norm.” Dan “Soupy” Campbell and the rest of The Wonder Years have been dealing with this a bit recently over some light backlash over the song “I Won’t Say The Lord’s Prayer.” Soupy recently did an in-depth piece with Alternative Press to address these issues and we have his response below. Click here to read the full story.

But why get involved, at the risk of alienating fans?
I feel like we have this soapbox, and we have a place where people are listening to us. I can’t just sit there and let that go by without saying something. It’s not the focal point of the band; we don’t have “Hail Satan” on our T-shirts or anything. There’s obviously way more to our band than this, but it’s something we felt was important enough to mention on the record and give it a song. Especially because it fits into the context of the record—it fits into the context of discontentment with our hometown.

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