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.
They understand it in the same regard as the people handing out the clearances, nothing to worry about.
For several years, ending ~2005, the guy in charge of security clearances was literally rubber stamping them. Literally anyone who got the paperwork on his desk got one.
Every journalist should be trying at all times.