Commission on Military, National, and Public Service
The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service is at work right now to determine the fate of Selective Service (Draft) Registration, and they need to hear from people of conscience! Congress established the National Commission on Military, National,...
It Is Time to Abolish Draft Registration and Restore Full Rights to People of Conscience
Bill Galvin and Maria Santelli, Center on Conscience & War[1] With the combat restriction for women in the US Armed Forces now lifted, discussion of draft registration is back in the news, the courts, and the halls of congress. But the problems with...
Selective Service Registration: Coercion of Conscience
Selective Service Registration: Coercion of Conscience? Introduction The draft has met with serious resistance from communities of faith and people of conscience throughout its history. While tolerated by the population at large during times of...
Marines Implement New Standards for Conscientious Objectors
By Bill Galvin. First published in On Watch by the Military Law Task Force (nlgmltf.org) In a new version of Marine Corps Order (MCO) 1306.16, issued in June of this year, the Department of the Navy, Marine Corps Headquarters, heightened the evidentiary standard a...
No Such Thing as a Fair Draft
The registration, which continues today, created a crisis of conscience for many conscientious young men who saw registering for the draft as a form of participating in war, which violated their Quaker beliefs.
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