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...draft law currently limits the combat-exempt status of a conscientious objector to one "who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form." Virtually all draft boards have interpreted those words to mean that 1) a draftee's opposition cannot be the product of a merely personal moral code, and 2) his opposition must be directed against all wars, not one specific conflict like Viet Nam. Last week both of those assumptions were declared unconstitutional by Charles Edward Wyzanski, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts...
...related to the Viet Nam war. Drawing from sources as varied as Learned Hand and Alfred North Whitehead, Judge Wyzanski began his legal analysis with the broad contention that the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion means "that no statute can require combat service of a conscientious objector whose principles are either religious or akin thereto...
...harder to detect a fraudulent adherent to a religious creed than to recognize a sincere moral protestant. We can all discern Thoreau's integrity more quickly than we might detect some churchman's hypocrisy. The suggestion that courts cannot tell a sincere from an insincere conscientious objector underestimates what the judicial process performs every...
Pusey said "we [whoever that is] want it [ROTC] here" so that students can use it to satisfy their military obligations. But until a month ago conscientious objectors who were satisfying Selective Service requirements by alternative civilian work, were barred from employment at the University. A more accurate description of why President Pusey wants ROTC is his statement that "it's terribly important for the United States of America that college people go into the military." As a conscientious objector, I disagree on the importance of the military, but I realize the president's view is closer to the majority...
Accepting a conscientious objector as an employee, however, is not a request for his deferment. Kelston has held I-O status since 1967, before he came to Harvard. Winning that classification did not depend on the availability of work at Harvard. Kelston holds his deferment on the merit of his convictions, and only asks, with his draft board's approval, that Harvard allow him to fulfill the deferment's terms in its employ...