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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
We don't have any recent law about conscription. That ended in the US in 1975 and I'm not sure off the of of my head how the Ali case ended. There may not have been a special exception for religion earlier though.
Generally though giving religion anything more than a strictly neutral status risks running in to our "no Establishment" clause.
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Modern USA is basically a bad example for discussing conscription laws because it has not seen enemy boots stepping on its soil for a long, long time, and seems to believe that it won't need to consider such a scenario ever again. That tends to obscure who is and isn't protected from conscription (and how much). Still, even USA does seem to have the concept of
protected classes as distinct from non-protected ones.