Julita David Robertson v. United States

With deference to my numerous colleagues I must record my disagreement. It seems to me quite clear that the Local Board, in considering whether Robertson was entitled to a ministerial classification, proceeded under an erroneous view of the law.

*451I recognize the difficulty faced by this Board, and others, composed of public-spirited laymen performing a vital national service. It has proved excruciatingly difficult to attempt to fit the Jehovah’s Witness registrant into the pigeonholes of the statutory exemption for “regular or duly ordained ministers of religion,” 50 U.S.C. App. § 456(g) and §…