| 词条 | Daniel Seeger |
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Seeger had come from a Roman Catholic background, been heavily influenced by Quaker ideas, and volunteered with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). In 1958, he was denied conscientious-objector status under the 1948 military draft law, on grounds that his religious beliefs did not constitute "belief in a Supreme Being"; he was eventually ordered to enter the armed forces, and convicted of draft refusal. In 1965, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Seeger that his conviction was mistaken, because Congress, in its statutory language, "did not intend" using "the usual understanding" of "Supreme Being", but rather an interpretation that extended to Seeger's "compulsion" to "goodness". Seeger made a career in the administration of the AFSC. In the 1980s and 90s he wrote four pamphlets[2] for publication by the Quaker Universalist Fellowship, and two[3] by the Quaker study-center publisher Pendle Hill. He retired in September 2000 from the role of executive director of Pendle Hill. On April 1, 2010, Seeger stepped into the role of Interim General Secretary at the AFSC, pending the conclusion of the search for a permanent General Secretary, following the resignation of Mary Ellen McNish on March 31. Further reading
References1. ^[https://www.afsc.org/content/dan-seeger Dan Seeger] (Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, n.d.), as accessed January 22, 2019. {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Seeger, Daniel}}2. ^Index of Pendle Hill Pamphlets by Number 3. ^Quaker Universalist Fellowship pamphlets 9 : American conscientious objectors|American Christian pacifists|American non-fiction writers|Converts to Quakerism|20th-century Quakers|21st-century Quakers|Living people|American Quakers|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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