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The longtime superintendent
of the Sunday School at the Harvard College Chapel has been censured by
vote of the five to ten-year-olds. They cited their longstanding
dissatisfaction with his management style and references to women in the
Bible.
The vote against Sumner H. Lawrence was 21 to 18, with five abstentions by
children who had to go to the bathroom.
The children who supported Dr. Lawrence said the opponents were
overzealous in their political correctness. The opponents said their
beliefs had nothing to do with political correctness but were about Dr.
Lawrence's tendency to favor male role models when telling Bible stories.
"He even claimed that God herself is male," said one Sunday School tot.
Dr. Lawrence spoke briefly after the children took their vote, saying he
had been trying in recent weeks to learn from children in the Sunday
school, and would continue to try. For the 37th time he issued an apology
for having given some youngsters the impression he holds sexist beliefs.
The vote was taken by secret ballot using paper and crayon. Children too
young to read and write drew a smily for "Yes" and a frowny for "No."
Meanwhile, inmates at the Walpole State Prison, also in Massacusetts, took
the lead of the Sunday School students by voting to censure their warden,
who quickly took Dr. Lawrence's lead and issued a series of apologies to
the prisoners for keeping them behind bars.
Thus emboldened, the inmates approved a No Confidence vote in the juries
that convicted them.
The American Civil Liberties Union called it a sad day for the American
legal system and urged strong efforts to select better juries.
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