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The Department of War has updated its faith codes after excluding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the list of Christian churches and causing a bitter theological debate on social media.
Members of the LDS church, colloquially known as Mormons, were angered that their church, while on the list, was not included among the Christian denominations.
'The Pentagon's job is not to adjudicate theological debates.'
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah heavily criticized the list.
I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," he wrote Saturday. "My church membership is inextricably intertwined with my Christianity, as it is for 17 million other Latter-day Saints. Regardless of what the Pentagon thinks."
Others argued that the theological positions of the LDS church separated it from traditionally defined Christianity.
"In strictly theological terms, Catholics do not consider Mormons (Latter-day Saints) as Christians," explained Father Ronald Vierling, a priest who listed rejection of the Trinity as one of the differences.
Lee later indicated on Sunday that he has spoken to President Donald Trump about the issue.
"I won't speak for him, but I'm thrilled about where this is heading," the senator wrote.
On Monday, the Department of War updated the list and said the omission had been a mistake.
"Last week, a proposed list of simplified faith codes was released to the media. The Pentagon list included redundant and unnecessary labeling, and the mistake has been fixed," reads the statement from the agency posted on social media.
The agency went on to explain that it was trying to simplify the coding system, which had ballooned to over 200 codes.
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"The Pentagon's job is not to adjudicate theological debates, but instead to ensure sincerely-held faith is respected and encouraged in our ranks," the agency added.
Lee thanked War Secretary Pete Hegseth for the change in the policy.
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There's a reason it's Jenny from the block, not Jenny fresh off the boat.
Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was hopping mad when pop singer and actress Jennifer Lopez dared to define what makes a New Yorker.
'Everybody wants to claim our city.'
"Everybody wants to claim our city, but you have to be born in New York. You have to be born in one of the five boroughs to be a New Yorker," Lopez said.
Purity testLopez's offhand comments, which she made while appearing on "SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma," prompted the Democrat former mayor, who led the city from 2014 to 2021, to call Lopez's definition "absolutely outrageous."
"There is no purity test," de Blasio claimed — asserting that New York is the "ultimate city of immigrants."
The 65-year-old continued his vehement defense of immigration by telling the New York Times the city's culture is actually the inverse of what Lopez was suggesting.
"In fact, it's been the opposite. We've said, 'Come here and become one of us.'"
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New York state of mind
De Blasio attempted to explain that his self-identification as a New Yorker comes from "how long I've lived here and because I raised my family here," not the fact that he was born in Manhattan in 1961.
"This place gave me everything in life," the former mayor went on. "Your definition of home is the place that means the most to you. New York City has been my whole world."
It's a definition that Lopez would no doubt reject. In her appearance, she stressed that even if a person had lived in NYC for 50 years, he still wasn't cut from the same cloth as those who were born there.
"I have to say, no, you live in New York. You take on characteristics of New Yorkers. ... When you're born in New York is when you're really a New Yorker."
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Emotional rescueLopez finished the short interview by advocating for schools to teach "self love" from elementary school through college, saying that if students couldn't pass tests based on being a good person, they shouldn't be allowed in society.
"Because they teach us things intellectually, but an intellectual motherf**ker with no emotional intelligence is dangerous! It's a dangerous person. Okay?" she remarked.
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Jenny Mollen -- the estranged wife of "American Pie" star Jason Biggs -- says she prays for one of her sons to be gay. "I pray that at least one of them is gay," the "Crazy, Stupid, Love" actress said.
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One of the most effective LGBTQ propaganda campaigns wasn't designed to change minds — it was designed to make dissent socially unacceptable.
BlazeTV host John Doyle argues that Hollywood and the media spent years convincing Americans that opposition to homosexuality was itself evidence of hidden same-sex attraction, creating a powerful social stigma around criticism.
“To be homophobic, too, meant that you’re actually secretly gay yourself. There was media depicting this — most famously, I think, 'American Beauty' with Kevin Spacey,” Doyle explains.
In the film “American Beauty,” a very masculine character who is blatantly intolerant of gay men reveals himself to be secretly gay at the end of the film.
“Now, that’s a master class in psychology, because they’re literally using the fact that people found this disgusting to then take that and turn it against them, where they would now be more reluctant to actually speak out against gay people because of this propaganda,” he says.
“What it boils down to is that they wanted to shore up and build up institutions and power for themselves and those on their side and then shut down and make their enemies appear to be evil, ridiculous, secretly on their side, but too cowardly to admit it,” he adds.
Once Americans were convinced that they were not allowed to disagree for fear of being labeled gay themselves, the gay community won the right to get married. Shortly after, they much more obviously began pushing their sexual preferences on children and called it progress.
Doyle calls this “growth for the sake of growth,” which he likens to the “ideology of a tumor.”
“It’s why, you know, only after getting legal protections completely enshrined in the law did they then start to push transgender transitions for children, drag shows for children, child drag queens. Again, why are they so focused on children?” Doyle asks.
“Is it perhaps because this isn’t actually, you know, a born-this-way kind of thing? Maybe it’s more, I don’t know, affecting people when they are in their most psychologically malleable state — their early developmental stages,” he says.
“Maybe,” he adds, “it’s a form of vampirism.”
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