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.

  • a_non_monotonic_function
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    3 days ago

    Are they strangely powerful outside of their normal territory? There’s like 30k of them according to a google search.

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      2 days ago

      I don’t know how many LDS folk are explicit White Horsers.

      My understanding is the average Mormon has a highly developed interest in self-sufficiency and preparedness.* So even if the normie LDS aren’t White Horsers their preparedness would be useful to White Horsers during the chaos of any theocratic transition.


      • which I respect generally, although I am not a fan of the New Mormon Overlords prophecy stuff