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Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at a never-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. On Monday, the Pentagon announced

that it would update again, its updated list of recognized religious groups, which had already reduced the number

from 180 to just 31. The purpose of revising the list was to, and I quote here,

streamline the DOW, that's Department of War, collection of religious preferences for service members

to enhance the delivery of targeted religious support from the chaplaincy.

On the new list, in addition to groups like the agnostics, Baha, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim,

Jewish, Sikh, and two catch-alls of no religion and other religion were 22 groups listed

as Christian.

However, the Church of Latter-day Saints, known as the Mormon Church, was not labeled

Christian like the Baptist, the Roman Catholics, the Methodist, and many others. Oddly,

Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian scientists were labeled Christian on the list, but Latter-day Saints

were not. And that sparked significant enough outrage that the DOW has now revised the new list again,

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