cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47886949

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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    If Hegsworth wasn’t drunk he could have played an Uno reverse and asked the Mormon’s who gets in their heaven.

    But them fracturing early is a huge boon to the rest of us. The Christian right has sunk a lot of time, efforts, and their daughters into converting our military officers, especially in the Air Force. Not to mention how they go after young politicians desperate for funding.

    But trump is co-opting their plans and forcing them early.

    If they had another decade or two, they’d likely have their faithful in full control of our government and military, then we wouldn’t even have noticed a coup. They’d have just denied it was happening and pretended it was coincidence.

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      If they had another decade or two, they’d likely have their faithful in full control of our government and military

      Zionists mutter knowingly amongst themselves in babykiller.