TheBlaze's Allie Beth Stuckey on Pentagon editing religious codes after backlash: “I'm glad that there wasn't any kind of formal apology”
Stuckey: “Latter-day Saints are Republicans. Mormons are conservatives. And so, it behooves President Trump to satiate the LDS community.”
Published
Citation
June 10, 2026, edition of TheBlaze's Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
ALLIE BETH STUCKEY (HOST): Now, I do not expect Trump to get in some kind of theological quibble over this at all. And, of course, Latter-day Saints are Republicans. Mormons are conservatives. And so, it behooves President Trump to satiate the LDS community.
Now when it comes to Pete Hegseth, he is much more theologically driven and he is more ideologically inclined. And so, I don't expect him to, you know, have taken this kind of conversation quite as lightly or as gently as the president, but the Pentagon did update their religious affiliation codes by removing the Christian label altogether. The list included, quote, “redundant and unnecessary labeling, and the mistake has been fixed.”
So I do think it's interesting that the Pentagon says that it was redundant and unnecessary, not that they actually made a mistake in what they labeled as Christian and what they didn't label as Christian. And I think that's, I think that's good. You know, if you're going to find a compromise, then I think that that's the compromise. I'm glad that there wasn't any kind of formal apology there made because it is simply true that Mormonism is outside of Christian orthodoxy.