WHEREAS, women are victims of the military in war, through rape
and forced prostitution, and
WHEREAS, military training relies upon sexual slurs against
women to inflame soldiers into aggression, and
WHEREAS, military decisions are exclusively made by male supremacists,
and
WHEREAS, men themselves are subject to loss of life and personhood
by being subject to compulsory military service from which women are exempt,
and
WHEREAS, women in the military are restricted on the basis of
sex in job training, education, area of service and are confined to low
level, non-policy positions,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NOW condemns the degradation
of women by sexist practices within the military and the sexist basis for
compulsory military service.