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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    I am sure that after some suitable donations to dear leader Trump, this obvious erroneous matter will be sorted.

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      They have more than enough money. Actually I wonder which church is the wealthiest. My money is on either Scientology or Mormonism.

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    I wish Mormons would be outraged over something that mattered, like the sexual abuse in their church, or the fact their church supporting mormon thieves and scammers across the country, who have stolen over a billion dollars from their fellow Americans.

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      While sexual abuse does occur in the church, the trick of having the church operate as it does is to catch predators. Similar to how Donald Trump is the orange cop-in-chief, because God and the FBI knows who offered him what.

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    Lol mormons aren’t christian tho. They believe in like Jesus 2.0. So mormonism should be filed under the sequel Christianity 2.0

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    What does it mean when a religion is officially recognised by the military? Do they get extra time for prayers or something?

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      It’s actually primarily for counseling and emotional care purposes, lifestyle accommodations, as well as planning for the worst in the event that someone is killed in action.

      If you get shot and die, they need to be able to know how to treat your body after death.

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        They really just want to stop service members from putting “Jedi Knight” on their dog tag under the religion section. Not joking lol

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          As a deployment manager that made dog tags for a few years, we didn’t care. Jedi, Pastafarian, Dudist, whatever. You are doing your country a service that most people can’t really comprehend. I’ll put whatever you want in that section as long as the other stuff that actually matters is correct.

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      LDS is one of the richest organized religions in the US, they are also one of the biggest sources of insane right wing propaganda online. They are almost singularly responsible for purity culture and the Maha movement. They fund a massive amount of influencers online who don’t explicitly identify themselves as Mormon, but push people towards their cult and other Mormons recognize the dog whistles.