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During World War II, Boston-born Robert Lowell was a C.O.-a conscientious objector. Refusing to be drafted into the Army, he served six months in a federal prison. Since that time, the great-grandnephew of Poet James Russell Lowell has gone on to write several volumes of widely praised, often autobiographical poetry, including Lord Weary's Castle and his latest, For the Union Dead...
These vague faiths were good enough for the court, which unanimously agreed that all three cases passed the act's test of Supreme-Being belief (the court specifically avoided the question of whether an atheist could qualify as a conscientious objector). Associate Justice Tom Clark argued for the court that Congress did not intend the act to apply only to orthodox members of organized churches. He cited Protestant Theologian Tillich, "whose views the Government concedes would come within the statute." Tillich firmly rejects the God of traditional theism in favor of a "God above God" who is the "ground...
...diverse manners in which beliefs may be articulated, Clark concluded, indicate that Selective Service examiners have no right to interpret the law narrowly. The only consideration is whether a conscientious objector's religious belief, however vague, has the same place in his life as God has in that of an orthodox Christian...
...York twice appealed for exemption from the World War I draft as a conscientious objector. Twice denied, he trained reluctantly in the Army, faced a religious dilemma when ordered overseas for combat duty. With his Bible in hand, he climbed into the Cumberlands on furlough, pondered the problem for two days, came down to announce: "I'm goin'." That decision, as it turned out, led to his becoming the most celebrated G.I. in America's military history. Of such legendary stuff was York made that Gary Cooper easily parlayed an unusually accurate film biography into...
...scrap with Barry Goldwater in the fall of 1961, when the Arizona conservative read into the Congressional Record a story for the Chicago Tribune which stated that "the man behind President Kennedy's rocking chair in a world with war tensions, escaped military service as a conscientious objector and Korean War service as a father." For the rest, he remained in the background: what he contributed to the fabric of Kennedy statements was almost impossible to distinguish from the rest. "I knew the way Kennedy thought, and how he would say things," Sorensen explains simply...