the student, a senior, james harper, who's a christian says the song makes him very uncomfortable.ten. >> in the bible that you don't worship any other god, and this is worshiping another god and even another prophet. i don't want to seem like a racist or bigot, i'm just rather uncomfortable, any religion, singing to any other god makes me uncomfortable. that's not just exclusive to the muslims. >> reporter: so harper asked his instructor to pull the song, and she refused, so he quit the choir. the school district is backing the teacher pointing that there's no school credit, and any student who feels uncomfortable with opt out of singing the song. listen. >> choral music is devoted to religious themes, it does not discriminate against any one religion. naturally, school choirs are going to be engaged in singing religious types of songs. >> reporter: and the performance also includes an irish folk song as well as a christian song called "a prayer for the children." we also checked, and the courts have sided with schools about religious songs in choir allowing them as long as they a

let's start talking a little bit about james harper here. he's part of a voluntary choir.ng event. the choir director sent home a list. these are the three songs. one was going to be an irish folk song and one was going to be a christian song and then this song about allah, pick up the story from there. >> yeah, no, he contacted us with his concerns with that particular song in the beginning. that's the original e-mail i received from him and after talking to him and talking with the school district, it -- you know, this story just kind of unfolded from there. >> ok and one of the parts -- a part of the lyric and we're looking at a translation right there. part of the lyrics, the song goes "there is no truth except allah." ok, do we know why the choir directed shows that particular song? >> i have not been able to talk to her directly but district -- the school district who -- the officials that i've been talking with throughout this week said that she chose it because it's rhythmic and it's very appealing for her students to be able to participate in such a great song. it

james clyburn, and john larson voted against it. a similar bill was filed last year by senator mccain and harper, a delaware democrat, and has 42 cosponsors. what duppinge about the house passing this legislation? we're going to begin with a democrat in michigan. brian, you're on the "washington journal." good morning. caller: good morning to you. i just don't think that it's going to pass muster in the courts. it happened last time, it was challenged by the republicans. it's going to be challenged by somebody, and they're going to find it's not constitutional, a constitutional means of opinion. host: what's your pick -- what's your opinion of it though? caller: my opinion of it is that i think the chief executive should have line-item veto rights. maybe it would save some money and save us some embarrassment down the line. host: and one of our twitter followers agrees with you. this is anthony, who says line-item veto is unconstitutional, or he doesn't agree with you -- well, he does agree with you in the sense, even with president that i like. next call comes from utah, pat on our independent line. pat, what do you think about the line-