Pentagon updates religious list after backlash from LDS Church

The state, let alone the Pentagon, shouldn’t be deciding who is or is not a Christian. Glad this has been revised. www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2026/06/08/after-outcry-mormon-lawmakers-pentagon-updates-religious-codes/

The US Military just made a bunch of changes to their list of Faith Codes. The gist is that the old list used to include every single type of Baptist in a separate entry. Now, they are all under a single umbrella, "Christian - Baptist" Another interesting choice is that LDS pic.x.com/ULRdjMnSbq

What a curious phrase: "war-fighters of all faith groups.” Whether the military’s chaplain corps has been “infected by political correctness and secular humanism,” as Hegseth argues, this country still believes in the free exercise of religion. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/pentagon-religions-faith-military.html

Last week, a proposed list of simplified faith codes was released to the media. The Pentagon list included redundant and unnecessary labeling, and the mistake has been fixed. The goal of this effort is to simplify a previously out-of-control “belief” coding system that had pic.x.com/yCsQDhZcGp