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.

  • Rooskie91@discuss.online
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    3 days ago

    When you accept that others rights can be taken away, you must also accept that your own rights can be taken away.

    If you accept that groups can be excluded from society, you must also accept that your group may one day be excluded.

    If you accept that might makes right, you must accept that one mightier than yourself will one day come along.

    If you live by the sword, you will likely die by the sword.

    Idk how many times this has to happen throughout history before people act learn from it.

    • Leviathan@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Not just that, their society is fiercely hierarchical, so by its very nature there is already always someone directly above them, and this particular movement has already shown that they don’t see them as equals.

      In the wise words of Jello Biafra:

      In the real Fourth Reich you’ll be the first to go