Defense Department cut roughly 180 religion codes from previous list, with mostly Christian denominations remaining

Mormon leaders, military veterans and elected officials reacted with anger to a new Department of Defense policy that does not consider The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be a Christian religion as part of a wider effort to cut down the U.S. military’s list of recognized faiths.

“The Pentagon’s decision to list The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apart from other Christian faiths is wrong and needs to be corrected,” Republican Rep. Mike Kennedy, of heavily Mormon Utah, wrote on X on Sunday.

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    That’s how it always goes with fascist and bigots. The in-group gets smaller with each victory until the in-group has no allies anymore.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Well you gotta have heirarchies, otherwise somebody might be promoted for being good at their job

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        This isn’t even a hierarchy at this point. Not when the goal is to completely exclude the out-group.