{"id":24707,"date":"2016-07-25T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=24707"},"modified":"2016-07-24T22:03:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T02:03:13","slug":"conscientious-objection-against-the-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/07\/conscientious-objection-against-the-state-2\/","title":{"rendered":"“Conscientious objection against the state”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Hillsdale professor and LCMS member Korey Maas has\u00a0an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>about the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod\u00a0convention action to allow women facing combat and registering for the draft to claim conscientious objector status.<\/a> \u00a0He goes into the legal implications of this decision, as well as the larger phenomenon of how the state has been picking fights with religious people and their institutions over issues of conscience.<\/p>\n

He closes by quoting\u00a0LCMS president Matthew Harrison, who said last year after the Supreme Court\u2019s gay marriage decision that Christians will soon \u00a0\u201cbegin to learn what it means to be in a state of solemn conscientious objection against the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof. Maas\u2019s article is excerpted and linked to after the jump.<\/p>\n

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From Korey Maas,\u00a0<\/span>Lutherans Armor Up to Defend Women \u2013 WSJ<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

For its modest size and relatively apolitical ethos, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod seems to be having more than its share of days in court. Three years ago the Supreme Court unanimously vindicated one of its congregations in Hosanna-Tabor v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission<\/em>, which recognized that churches have broad autonomy over whom they hire. This fall the justices will take up Trinity Lutheran v. Pauley<\/em>, a dispute over whether states can deny funds to schools with religious affiliations.<\/p>\n

Now the synod\u2019s two million members may have reason to anticipate yet another day in court. Last week in Milwaukee the church\u2019s triennial convention passed a resolution, by a 946-89 vote, committing to support \u201cthose who have a religious and moral objection to women participating in the selective service system and being subject to a possible draft.\u201d The text of the final resolution built on proposals by more than three dozen congregations, circuits, districts, or commissions of the synod.<\/p>\n

That such a measure was even brought to a vote indicates how swiftly the country\u2019s legal and political culture has been changing. A similar proposal mooted only three years ago was dismissed as unnecessary. Undoubtedly, some delegates even thought it paranoid posturing.<\/p>\n

Then, last December, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that all positions in the U.S. military, including combat roles, would be opened to women.<\/p>\n

[Keep reading. . .]\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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