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A Case on Conscientious Objection| |
Title of item | A Case on Conscientious Objection |
| Date of this edition | 1972 |
| Language | English |
| Permission | public domain |
| Posted | 1998 by Jonah Winters |
| Formatted | 1998 by Ralph D. Wagner |
| Classified in | Legal/gov't. Documents |
| URL | bahai-library.com/conscientious_objection_case |
| Abstract | In 1972, a Bahá'í — previously convicted of failing to submit to induction (the draft) — was acquitted on appeal. |
| Notes | Text taken from "Westlaw," a commercial database published by the West Publishing Company. To comply with copyright law, any annotations have been deleted, leaving the original public-domain text.
Hanson failed to follow the policy of the US National Spiritual Assembly in two respects. First, as he admits, Bahá'ís are expected to apply for I-A-O classification (noncombatant military service), rather than I-O (civilian alternative service). Second, Bahá'ís are expected to accept combatant service if their applications for noncombatant status are rejected. [-R.D.W.] |
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Last edited | 1998. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs. | | |
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