Question, can conscientious objectors be required to “perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States”?
That’s what conscientious objectors used to do. Now, I guess, they will hand out in front of the welfare office while American citizens give up their lives protecting them.
The responsibility to defend the country is fundamental to citizenship. I had a close friend who was a real religious conscientious objector. When drafted he went to Vietnam as a medic and severed honorably. He said it was the only way he could be true to both his religious obligation and that of being an American citizen.