Across the State, people attending religious services heard about how the major faith traditions teach that the young are special in the eyes of the Almighty, and how young people should be treated when they commit serious crimes. “This comes from our faith convictions,” said Jauvier Stauring, director of Faith Communities for Families and Children. “We should never ever give up on a child…[W]e should not look at them and declare that the worst thing they did as a child is how we’re going to label them for the rest of their lives.”