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.
Unless I miss judging them I doubt they’re going to fuck up the entire federal government.
They could very well withhold endorsements and lobbying $$$ from republicans until they correct the “error”.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/church-of-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints/recipients?id=D000044751
Am I reading correct that they spent only a couple of grand? That isn’t a lot.
Yep you’re right. Supposedly the LDS church doesn’t donate to political campaigns (per Google). Though I find it difficult to believe they don’t use their massive fortune to influence elections.
There aren’t that many of them and I don’t believe the influence is that big outside of where they live.
I mean, yeah, the government loves hiring them. But that’s because they don’t have any of the traditional vices. They don’t get drunk cuz they don’t…
But I don’t think they’re ending the fed anytime soon.
Well, they could try. It would be a win-win.
If the plan is for the LDS church to
take overrescue America after the entire Federal government falters, what’s a little accelerationism between friends?Are they strangely powerful outside of their normal territory? There’s like 30k of them according to a google search.