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How the Pentagon picked a fight with Mormons
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The Department of Defense under Secretary Pete Hegseth proposed changes to military chaplaincy that raised questions about whether the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints qualifies as a Christian denomination.
How the Pentagon picked a fight with Mormons
The spires of the historic Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2016. | George Frey/Getty Images
Over the weekend, the Department of Defense stepped into one of the more delicate questions in American religiosity: who gets to be called “Christian.”
More specifically, does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the Mormon Church), fit the bill?
The brouhaha started with Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to simplify and reform the work of military chaplains — those
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