Word: pacifistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep religious sensitivity and an interest in pacifism. He had tried to join a Trappist monastery, but was rejected as too young. Later, he spent a year as a student in a Vermont seminary. Since 1963, LaPorte had served as a part-time volunteer with the radically anarchist and pacifist Catholic Worker movement, to which David Miller, the jailed draft-card burner, also belongs. Other volunteers recalled him as devout and quiet, a normally cheerful youth who drank, smoked and dated occasionally...
...Obviously," Mansfield commented, "the law is way out of its depth." He went on to point out that in the case of an agnostic pacifist, Daniel Seeger, the Court threw out the Supreme Being requirement and put on a broad interpretation on "religious belief." But the decision in Seeger's favor specifically refused to commit the court to exempting an atheist pacifist...
...sudden sabre-rattling stance of the Students for a Democratic Society in protesting "British inaction to uphold democracy" is an astounding feat of double-think. Can anything be more rash, ill-considered, and detrimental to the cause of peace? The SDS admittedly does not profess to be a pacifist group. Nonetheless, the demand for immediate recourse to military action is hardly the initial response to be expected of a body whose origins lie in the sense of moral outrage at the holocaust in Southeast Asia. Surely the SDS is not merely attempting to counter-act the imputation of cowardice...
Thou Shalt Not Kill. For other Quakers, Morrison's act raised questions both as a suicide and as a pacifist protest. Although the Friends profess deep reverence for human life, their doctrine includes no specific condemnation of suicide; most Quakers were content to let God judge Morrison's self-slaughter. And while they could quarrel with his grisly form of martyrdom, there was no disputing that the vast majority of Friends shared Morrison's misgiving about the Viet Nam war, or any other war. Along with the Brethren movement and the Mennonites, the Friends have been...
...recruiting center in lower Manhattan, a self-styled "Catholic pacifist" burned his draft card. Though willful destruction of a draft card is punishable by a five-year jail term under a recently enacted federal law, the student declared: "Christ would not have carried this card. Neither will I." One spectator shouted at the unkempt crowd: "Get inside. It's going to rain. You'll get clean...