h4pless

While feeling patriotic this afternoon, the song "God Bless America" popped into my head. As I didn't remember all the lyrics, I did a search and the first set of lyrics I came upon:

http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/godblessamerica.html

had a rather explicit copyright notice at the top. It struck me as I thought about posting it to a page, whether or not I could quote the song without permission from the copyright holder.

The thing of it is, the song explicitly states that it is a prayer, and then directs that prayer to God. So it seems that using it should be a right afforded to us under the free exercise of religion clause of the first amendment.

So I wonder, what takes precedence? A person's legitimate claim to ownership of their creative work, or another person's free exercise of religion?