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...long and hard to become day care experts without a center could find a last resort in a combination of Welfare and United Fund money called Associated Day Car Services, and how ADCS, at the very end, could come to us with The Law-a conglomeration of atrociously unjust and inequal salary and vacation scales, high fees for the children, and almost complete loss of any power, any control by the mothers save in advisory capacity...
Mass punishments for Friday's disruption would be unjust, inhumane, and unwise. The University cannot, no matter how repressive it is willing to become, protect itself from the damage which the war is doing to American society. If the University is truly concerned with free speech, it should rather abandon its posture of moral neutrality, rid itself of complicity in the war effort, and devote its energies to ending a war that will destroy it as surely as it destroyed last Friday's teach...
...Just and Unjust. The two losers in the case came to the court from opposite ends of the country and different ethical viewpoints. Guy P. Gillette, a rock musician from Yonkers, N.Y., was ready to fight for the U.S. in the event of an attack or help in any United Nations peace-keeping mission. But Gillette, now 25, refused induction because, he said, his humanist views forbade him to take part in the "unjust" Viet Nam conflict...
...completing basic training and receiving orders to Viet Nam, by which time he was sure that he could not in good conscience fight there. A devout Roman Catholic, he sought a court-ordered discharge from the Army on the ground that Catholic theology permits a distinction between just and unjust wars. "Each Catholic," he argued, "must form his own conscience in respect to military service...
Gillette and Negre claimed, among other things, that the draft law violates the First Amendment ban against governmental "establishment of religion." It does so, they said, by favoring denominations that preach total pacifism while penalizing others that oppose only unjust wars. Speaking for the court majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall noted that the establishment clause requires that "when government activities touch on the religious sphere, they must be secular in purpose, evenhanded in operation and neutral in primary impact." By exempting objectors to all wars, Marshall held, Congress properly focused on individual consciences, not sectarian affiliations. It also avoided administrative chaos...