conscientious objector is to start documenting your participation in
organizations or activities that illustrate that you live your life
according to your belief in peace. It will not be enough to walk into a
draft hearing and tell the draft board that you are a conscientious
objector.
If you are in the military and decide to take CO status, this may be a
more difficult task in proving your beliefs, yet the task is basically the
same that is to objectively prove beyond any reasonable doubt that
your personal beliefs are solidly and undeniably based currently upon
a true “conscientious objection”, to participating in the Armed Forces.
This position must be personal, and must be proven by an objective
standard of witnesses and code of conduct that again is objectively
on record as being lived and is serving the CO as a matter of
conscience and direction of life.
We at Garrett's Creek have a close relationship to a brother who was
in the military at the time that he became a Christian. Through Bible
study he realized that he could no longer continue in the military with a
clean conscience and started a very long process that happily ended
with a CO status and an honorable discharge. We will try to have this
brother write about his experience and make his story available to all
through this website.
Continue to "The Specifics of our Opposition"
