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Mormons outraged after Hegseth military policy no longer counts LDS as Christian (www.independent.co.uk)
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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.

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago

yeah, i hear you. chaplains usually are trained to provide religious services to religions outside their own spiritual niche. that explicitly requires ecumenism and that concept is anathema to Salt Lake City.

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