WASHINGTON(AP) —The Pentagon updated its recognized religious affiliations Monday, three days after it released a streamlined list.
Utah Republican Senators Mike Lee and John Curtis had complained because the Pentagon’s Christian categories did not include The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Whether members of the LDS Church, often called Mormons, are Christian is a long-running debate.
The latest rubric does not categorize the LDS Church as Christian. Rather, it removes the Christian label from 20 other traditions, including Catholic, Lutheran and Pentecostal.
The Defense Department posted on social media that the original list “included redundant and unnecessary labeling, and the mistake has been fixed.”
The original list is below.