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conscientious objector is a person who refuses to participate in war or serve in the military due to deeply-held moral or religious beliefs against violence and harming others. They choose alternative ways to contribute to society, such as humanitarian work or non-violent activities.
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He's on the board of Quaker House of Fayetteville, a group that works with
conscientious objectors in the military, and works with Urban Ministries of Durhamand The Metta Center.
But alarming new data obtained by The Advertiser from the federal Department of Health reveals the number of children whose parents are registering
as conscientious objectors to childhood vaccinations has doubled since 2006.
From the colonial period through the twenty - first century, federal, state, and territorial governments have an unbroken tradition of protecting
conscientious objectors who can not abide the government's mandate to kill, cut, or medicate another human being.
A powerhouse cast is featured in a dramatic film about the legal battle over whether to find in favor of the boxing champ in his appeal for
conscientious objector status in the military draft.
His deeds were recognized and he was awarded the Medal of Honor, becoming the
first Conscientious Objector in history to have that distinction.
On the other hand, it is a mark of mature democracy when provisions are made for exempting
conscientious objectors from military conscription.
«We recognize that there is a «trend of
protecting conscientious objectors to abortions» and that most — but not all — states do not require pharmacies to deliver prescriptions, such as Plan B and ella, in a timely manner,» wrote Judge Susan P. Graber in the decision from 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals.
The firecracker German actor stars as real - life
WWII conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian who declined Nazi service.
After several years of improvisational tone poems cobbled together in post-production, Terrence Malick makes his triumphant return to genuinely scripted, more conventionally structured drama with Radegund, about the life and death of Austrian
conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who was executed by the Nazis in 1943.
The religious groups» reasons — that only they can identify a substantial burden on their exercise of religion and that the government needs to exempt the insurers of
conscientious objectors along with churches and their auxiliaries — actually harm religious liberty, he argued.
The three
conscientious objectors spoke to their captors, defying the empire's violent threats and declaring their confidence in God's protection.
Who would burn their SS cards, who would probably
claim Conscientious Objector all over again, if there ever was a need to bring back the good Old Draft.
FTR, I come at this having been born, raised and educated in the Mennonite faith, where as a part of the curriculum they handed out
conscientious objector forms.
These conflicts will spawn years of costly litigation, not only for religious organizations and individuals, but for small businesses owned by
conscientious objectors across the state.
Despite attempts during conference to smear as traitors those who, like Siobhain McDonagh and Joan Ryan, called publicly for a leadership contest, the two women ended up looking more
like conscientious objectors.
Of particular note was the Minnesota Experiment done on
imprisoned conscientious objectors during WWII (the Biology of Human Starvation, Univ MN Press, 1950) and by George Cahill's group in the 1960's (Owens et al, JCI, 1969).
Quick side note — one of the things researchers found when they
starved conscientious objectors during World War II in the Minnesota starvation experiment was that the subjects almost all started collecting cookbooks because they were so obsessed with food.
Andrew Garfield also gets a nomination for his portrayal of the
wartime conscientious objector Desmond Doss, and I have to say that this movie is a major leap forward for Garfield — his best work yet, and actually considerably more impressive than his contribution to Martin Scorsese's Silence.
Andrew Garfield stars as Desmond T. Doss, an unsung World War II hero and the first -
ever conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
The Trials of Muhammad Ali (Unrated)
Conscientious objector documentary revisiting disgraced Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali's legal battle to overturn his five - year sentence for refusing to serve in Vietnam because «Ain't no Viet Cong ever call me [N - word].»
«There was one
serious conscientious objector in the Bush / Obama era — Bidder 70, who disrupted an auction of public property for fossil fuel exploitation.
Groia filed a motion
requesting conscientious objectors be exempt from the requirement, which obliges every lawyer and paralegal in Ontario to adopt a statement acknowledging their obligation to promote equality, diversity and inclusion.
The Montreal Gazette today published a letter of mine objecting to this «ethical cleansing» of
conscientious objectors from the medical community.
Andrew Garfield, the feature actor in our latest issue, gives the public his best Southern accent to tell the powerful story of WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, the
first conscientious objector to win a medal of honor.
While Bracey is counting on «Point Break» to give him his big break, he's also excited about his upcoming turn in Mel Gibson «s «Hacksaw Ridge,» which chronicles the extraordinary true story of
conscientious objector Desmond Doss, played by Andrew Garfield.
National Post: Ontario lawyers must say they promote equality, or else after law society rejects exemption for conscientious objectors
Even Sean Parker, a Facebook billionaire and the company's first president, says he has become a «
conscientious objector» partly out of concern for «what it's doing to our children's brains.»
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