Faye Neff, writing in THE CLERGY JOURNAL, tells about a newspaper in Maine that printed an embarrassing mistake. The paper ran a photo of the local board of council members, but someone placed the wrong caption under the picture. Beneath the photo were these words: "Naive and vulnerable, the sheep huddle for security against the uncertainties of the outside world." Can't you just imagine that caption, asks Neff, under a variety of photographs? Under a picture of the president and his advisers? Or perhaps Congress? "Naive and vulnerable, the sheep huddle for security against the uncertainties of the outside world." (1)

Most people don't want to be thought of as sheep. Sheep are dumb, smelly, helpless creatures whose only virtue is that they are commercially productive for food and for wool…