{"id":83419,"date":"2026-06-07T08:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83419"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:13:40","slug":"sens-lee-and-curtis-question-new-pentagon-designation-for-latter-day-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/sens-lee-and-curtis-question-new-pentagon-designation-for-latter-day-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Lee And Curtis Question New Pentagon Designation For Latter-Day Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fom<em> Deseret News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Utah\u2019s two U.S. senators are questioning a new Pentagon policy that leaves \u201cChristian\u201d off the designation for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Department of War recently announced the reduction in the number of religious affiliation categories for service members from over 200 down to 31. Categories that were removed from the list include \u201catheist\u201d and \u201chumanist,\u201d and \u201cWicca.\u201d\u00a0The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is included as a religious category on the updated list. But the faith was not included in the list of faiths labeled \u201cChristian.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fom Deseret News: Utah\u2019s two U.S. senators are questioning a new Pentagon policy that leaves \u201cChristian\u201d off the designation for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83420,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83419\/revisions\/83420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}