Excommunicated By Trump: Military Reclassifies Mormon Church As Non-Christian

[Everybody Wang Chung]

The Department of Defense’s recently decided to remove the Mormon church from the "Christian" category. The Mormon church spent generations and millions trying to position itself as a bastion of traditional Christian values and American patriotism, only to be excommunicated from the fold by Trump and Hegseth. It just shows that you can put Jesus on your logo and spend billions on global missionary work, but it only takes Trump and minute to reclassify you as non-Christian.


https://www.military.com/dod-officially ... igion-list

[malkie]

"Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints"? That's not us!

OTOH, the SDAs and JWs got the heave too, ...

[Philo Sofee]

The Department of Defense’s recently decided to remove the Mormon church from the "Christian" category. The Mormon church spent generations and millions trying to position itself as a bastion of traditional Christian values and American patriotism, only to be excommunicated from the fold by Trump and Hegseth. It just shows that you can put Jesus on your logo and spend billions on global missionary work, but it only takes Trump and minute to reclassify you as non-Christian.


https://www.military.com/dod-officially ... igion-list

LOL! He redefines everything from war, to ceasefire, to sleep, to loyalty and morality. And of course, as President he KNOWS the truth! It is his definition alone that means reality. He has the freedom of speech, but others cannot have it because if they disagree, then its being censored dramatically. And now, of course, with the rise of WHITE Christian Nationalism, we gotta get rid of a lot of this fluff so they can streamline the power and ability to run the country dictatorially, and decide who makes it to heaven and who does not. ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH THEM ON Jesus cannot be a Christian, because, of course, only THEY know Jesus, all others are fake news.

[Tom]

"Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints"? That's not us!

Amen. There’s one Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

[Everybody Wang Chung]

It’s fascinating that Jehovah’s Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists make Trump’s Christian list, but Mormons don't. If you’re a Mormon voter who has been unconditionally loyal to Trump (like most Mormons), consider this a wake-up call about how he actually views you and your faith.

Are Latter-day Saints Christian? The U.S. Defense Department doesn’t appear to think so.

(Alex Brandon | AP) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth explained changes in his department's list of recognized religions as part of a larger effort to root out "political correctness and secular humanism" from the Chaplain Corps.

For nearly a decade, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been engaged in a top-down rebrand meant partly to solidify its focus and bona fides as a Christian religion.

The U.S. Department of Defense, led by conservative evangelical Pete Hegseth, appears unconvinced.

On Friday, spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed on social media a report that the department had trimmed its list of recognized religious affiliations, used by its chaplains, from more than 200 to 31.

The list denotes 20 faiths as Christian, including Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Baptist and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Not, however, the Utah-based faith.

Asked by The Salt Lake Tribune if this omission was intentional, a member of the department’s press team pointed to the statement posted by Parnell.

The Office of the Secretary of War is announcing a significant change to the Department’s categorization of religious affiliation. In a long overdue move, we reduced the list from over 200 unmanageable categories to 31. With this move, we are returning to the original intent of… https://t.co/dgHX5ytzjJ pic.Twitter.com/eho537O08J

“This decrease in religious affiliation codes is not designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any faith or religious belief, nor is it intended to provide a list of ‘officially approved’ religions,” he wrote. “Rather, it is designed to allow chaplains to quickly look at the religious composition of their units and determine how they structure resources to best provide for warfighters of all faith groups.”

However, an accompanying video by Hegseth seemed to suggest the change wasn’t entirely one of streamlining bureaucracy.

“In previous administrations, our Chaplain Corps was infected by political correctness and secular humanism,” he said. “...Faith and virtue were traded for self-help and self-care. We started correcting that drift [in December], and today we’re going further.”

Asked if the church planned to respond, a spokesperson for the faith did not provide a statement.

Among those eliminated were Unitarian Universalists, various Wiccans, deists, atheists and others, according to Military.com, the first to report the news.

Jenna Carson is a Latter-day Saint who served as an active-duty chaplain for the Air Force from 2022 to ’25.

During her tenure, she said she never received pushback from the institution or her superiors as to her Christianity, although there was some question about whether she could lead Protestant services.

She told The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday the implications of the coding change were unclear to her and those she knew still serving as chaplains.

“We’re all confused about it,” she said, noting wariness among those she’d spoken to about it as to whether the change represented a step toward curtailing religious accommodation regardless of individual service members’ beliefs.

https://www.ksl.com/article/51507816/le ... sification

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/06 ... f-defense/

[Tom]

It’s fascinating that Jehovah’s Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists make Trump’s Christian list, but Mormons don't. If you’re a Mormon voter who has been unconditionally loyal to Trump (like most Mormons), consider this a wake-up call about how he actually views you and your faith.

Are Latter-day Saints Christian? The U.S. Defense Department doesn’t appear to think so.

(Alex Brandon | AP) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth explained changes in his department's list of recognized religions as part of a larger effort to root out "political correctness and secular humanism" from the Chaplain Corps.

For nearly a decade, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been engaged in a top-down rebrand meant partly to solidify its focus and bona fides as a Christian religion.

The U.S. Department of Defense, led by conservative evangelical Pete Hegseth, appears unconvinced.

On Friday, spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed on social media a report that the department had trimmed its list of recognized religious affiliations, used by its chaplains, from more than 200 to 31.

The list denotes 20 faiths as Christian, including Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Baptist and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Not, however, the Utah-based faith.

Asked by The Salt Lake Tribune if this omission was intentional, a member of the department’s press team pointed to the statement posted by Parnell.

The Office of the Secretary of War is announcing a significant change to the Department’s categorization of religious affiliation. In a long overdue move, we reduced the list from over 200 unmanageable categories to 31. With this move, we are returning to the original intent of… https://t.co/dgHX5ytzjJ pic.Twitter.com/eho537O08J

“This decrease in religious affiliation codes is not designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any faith or religious belief, nor is it intended to provide a list of ‘officially approved’ religions,” he wrote. “Rather, it is designed to allow chaplains to quickly look at the religious composition of their units and determine how they structure resources to best provide for warfighters of all faith groups.”

However, an accompanying video by Hegseth seemed to suggest the change wasn’t entirely one of streamlining bureaucracy.

“In previous administrations, our Chaplain Corps was infected by political correctness and secular humanism,” he said. “...Faith and virtue were traded for self-help and self-care. We started correcting that drift [in December], and today we’re going further.”

Asked if the church planned to respond, a spokesperson for the faith did not provide a statement.

Among those eliminated were Unitarian Universalists, various Wiccans, deists, atheists and others, according to Military.com, the first to report the news.

Jenna Carson is a Latter-day Saint who served as an active-duty chaplain for the Air Force from 2022 to ’25.

During her tenure, she said she never received pushback from the institution or her superiors as to her Christianity, although there was some question about whether she could lead Protestant services.

She told The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday the implications of the coding change were unclear to her and those she knew still serving as chaplains.

“We’re all confused about it,” she said, noting wariness among those she’d spoken to about it as to whether the change represented a step toward curtailing religious accommodation regardless of individual service members’ beliefs.

https://www.ksl.com/article/51507816/le ... sification

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/06 ... f-defense/

I couldn’t make the Tribune article link open. An alternative: https://tinyurl.com/4z7732wb

BasedSenatorMikeLee (@BasedMikeLee) is deeply unhappy. The Department of War’s classification may make Senator Lee so irate that he will seriously consider endorsing Brother Ammon Bundy rather than Donald “Captain Moroni” Trump for the 2028 presidential election.