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.
Fracture, fracture, fracture.
Something tells me all the kings horses and all the kings men will never put MAGA back together again.
Good, I hope so
Between the no war voters and the America first voters and the affordability voters, all he has left is religious crazy voters.
He just lost another chunk of what remains of his base.
Dude is officially the least popular president in American history.
Dude is officially the least popular president in American history.
Unfortunately that only means something if Republicans refuse to vote for him, and most Republicans I know would vote for literally anybody running as a Republican just to minimize any chance of a Democrat getting elected. About the only way I could see Republicans refusing to vote for the Republican candidate is if we were in some bizzaro world where the Republican candidate was a black queer woman and the Democrat was a white straight man (although I would happily pay thousands of dollars to witness the absolute knots all the racist Republican bigots would tie themselves into trying to square that circle).
Why does the DoD get to decide who are the Christians and who aren’t in the first place?
Didn’t you get the memo? It’s DoW, like the stock thing, I think.
LOL, I find this hilarious.
Don’t all the people that want America to be xtian know just WHY this country was set up as a secular nation?
It’s so all these various denominations could ALL have the freedom to practice their chosen lifestyle in the way they want, without government interference as long as they don’t step on others’ rights.
It’s that fucking simple. All of the faces aching to be leopard meat, though…
All these white adjacent and christian adjacent about to find out
Oh boy don’t get the Mormons at the government or they will dress up as Native American and attack a army outpost and blame it on the Native Americans…
Lol, Lmao even.
LDS be crazy for sure, but regardless, you should have the right to participate in crazy if you choose to do so.
The only thing that changed was that the DoD official religion list (simultaneously reduced from 200 choices to 30ish) officially marks mormonism as its own separate class of religion and not part of Christianity.
Which, well when one of the central tenets of your faith is explicitly that all other religions (specifically Christian religions) are exploitive and dishonest, and that you believe all of the Christian churches’ tenets, creeds, beliefs and rites are “abominable before [their god]”. So of course Christianity is going to reject mormons and mormonism. The mormons reject the Christians anyways (except for when they are looking for new
victimsmormons) so this “we are too Christians” bullshit from Salt Lake City just reeks of the weird kid in the lunchroom begging to popular table to eat lunch together.
Well, to be fair…
