For some of those conscientiously opposed to war, their conscience does not allow them to even register for a military draft.\u00a0 They feel that by doing so, they are supporting the military system that requires all males to register.\u00a0 Attempts by the government to prosecute such conscientious resisters have not always been successful.\u00a0 Thus, the government has enacted laws that, without providing any recourse to demonstrate how such registration is offensive to one’s most deeply held religious beliefs, punish those who in good conscience cannot register.\u00a0 Particularly, such conscientious young males are\u00a0deemed ineligible\u00a0to recieve government loans that\u00a0they need in order to be able to afford a\u00a0higher education. In some states, the punishment for following your conscience in this regard, is that the state will not issue you a driver’s license.\u00a0 Despite what would seem the patent unconstitutionality of such punishment without any hearing, the government is intent on enforcing this on all non-registrants, and\u00a0\u00a0thereby lumping those religiously opposed to war with those who simply neglect to register.\u00a0\u00a0In response, a fund has been established\u00a0to provide educational loans for those who can demonstrate hardship on account of their refusal to register for a draft (more information is available on links to the right).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For some of those conscientiously opposed to war, their conscience does not allow them to even register for a military draft.\u00a0 They feel that by doing so, they are supporting the military system that requires all males to register.\u00a0 Attempts by the government to prosecute such conscientious resisters have not always been successful.\u00a0 Thus, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conscience-and-militarism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}