Pete Hegseth 'backtracks' on 'repugnant' religious policy after GOP beatdown

[RockRaven]

5. He DID NOT backtrack.

The issue was that many denominations were listed as "Christian - [denomonation]" such as "Christian - Lutheran," or whatever. But when it came to LDS they skipped the "Christian - " umbrella prefix, which was seen as a nod to the longstanding Evangelical/fundie thing about LDS not being Xian.

In response to the furor, they DID NOT reverse that and add the prefix to LDS, as Mormons wanted.

Instead they removed the prefix from all of the other Xians. So for the example given above it now would read just "Lutheran" instead of "Christian - Lutheran" and so for all the rest too.

They would rather sacrifice being able to call Baptists and Lutherans and Methodists and even Catholics "Christian" than have to call Mormons the same.

What that means is that Kegsbreath et al. are so committed to NOT calling Mormons "Christian" that they would rather not call every other denomination Xian than say that Mormons are.