This is a monumental day for the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. The Penatgon has admitted Hegseth, erred! My discovery that Salome was the step-mother of Jesus, will dovetail nicely with the history of the United States Military, and the British Defense Staff, Washington. The history of Christianity is changed
FOREVER!
At 3:30 PM on June 9, 2026, I began the process of becoming a member of the Pioneer Women. The Sisters of the LDS Church are coming over tonight.We will celebrate together!
John ‘The Nazarite’ Presco
Pentagon walks back Latter-day Saints Church classification after pushback from Utah lawmakers
In an update to faith codes, the Pentagon had classified the religion as separate from Christianity.
The temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Kensington, Maryland is pictured on April 18, 2022. | Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images
By Cheyanne M. Daniels06/08/2026 03:32 PM EDT
The Pentagon on Monday revised its religious-affiliation policy, days after Utah lawmakers criticized newly released faith codes that omitted The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Christian denomination.
Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon was cutting the number of faith groups on the list from over 200 to 31, a move that Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell called “long overdue.”
“This decrease in religious affiliation codes is not designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any faith or religious belief, nor is it intended to provide a list of ‘officially approved’ religions,” Parnell said in a post announcing the move last week. “Rather, it is designed to allow chaplains to quickly look at the religious composition of their units and determine how they structure resources to best provide for warfighters of all faith groups.”
Faith codes are intended to provide more accurate demographic data on religious beliefs held among service members. But while more than 20 denominations were labeled as “Christian” in the initial update, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — widely known as the Mormon church — did not initially have that label, sparking backlash from LDS congressional members.
“I find this offensive, not just because that happens to be my faith, and not just because that happens to be the faith of tens of thousands of U.S. military personnel, but it’s also just repugnant to any sense of decency, any sense of our common heritage and our common belief that the government needs to not weigh in on doctrinal disputes between various religious denominations,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said in a video posted to social media on Sunday.
Rep. Mike Kennedy (R-Utah) pointed out that Church members follow “the teachings of Christ,” while Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) said members “are among the most patriotic, service-oriented individuals in our country” and “unequivocally Christian.”
Early Monday morning, Lee posted that he had spoken with President Donald Trump to discuss “the Pentagon’s ‘Christian list’” and was “thrilled” about where things were heading.
Soon after, the Pentagon released new codes, now listing religious denominations by name rather than grouped under “Christian” categories.
“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 Pentagon said Monday.
The move was applauded by lawmakers, with Curtis thanking Hegseth for “delivering a swift correction.”
In his own post thanking Hegseth for the correction, Kennedy said, “the government should not be in the business of deciding who counts as Christian.”
“Latter-day Saints and Christians of every tradition are united by our common commitment to the teachings of Christ, and we are stronger in that shared purpose,” he added.
6/9/2026
Salome and The Baptist
Where Art Thou?
by
John Presco
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This morning as I lie in bed I cam up with the solution for my paintings of Rena Easton, and, what really happened to Salome and John the Baptist. I said twenty years ago that Salome danced for John’s head – after it was severed – so she can have it plated with silver, and put in the Cave of Machpelah. with the other heads of prophets. Essau’s head was put here. He is the Father of the Idimuties, of which Herod the great spring, as well as Salome and her mother.
OH MY GOD! I just took a sip of coffee, and aaked my Googlebot this question;
“Did Queen Berenice take the vow of the Nazarite”
Yes. According to first-century historian Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Queen Berenice took a Nazirite vow in 66 CE. She went to Jerusalem and undertook the vow’s requirements, which included abstaining from wine and shaving her head thirty days before offering sacrifices. [1, 2]
” She bravely approached the Roman procurator Gessius Florus barefoot and with her head shorn to plead for his protection of the Jewish people and to stop the massacre of Jews in Jerusalem.”
OMG! I just asked Googlebot are there any heads in the Cave of Patriarch?
The Tradition: The Midrash (ancient biblical exegesis) and the Talmud recount that after a dispute regarding the burial plots, Esau’s severed head rolled into the cave and came to rest in the bosom of his father, Isaac.
I began myu painting of Rena – six years ago? I put a lantern in her hand, holding up The Light of Truth! THE TRUTH that arrived at 8:16 AM June 9, 2026….. Salome is a devout Jew, who may have taken the Vow of the Nazarite…..
BECAUSE SHE WAS BAPTIZED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST!
God gave Rena to me, in the middle of the night. She was a professional dancer who danced in the Royal Ballet! I need a studio! I want to do a Lifesize satue of Rena, and gift it to the LDS church, along with the Gold Plate with the words of…
The Bitter Water
I spent a year doing thee genealogy of the Herod’s Family Tree. Today, I find
TWO HOLY WOMAN
Are these The Two Witnesses?
I believe Salome was made The Scapegoat! She was left….Holding the bag! Powerful men were afriad of John. He became…A Political Football! Salome was utterly disgusted. I believed she conversed with learned Jews. Why would she hate John, when all around her…..loved him! She loved John! What was not to love!
I got a text from The Sisters, and they are still coming to my door! I sent them my last three posts. We are……all in! When I become baptized. Salome will top my list of those who will own Salvation – when I do!
Holy! Holy!
John ‘The Nazarite’
EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA!
I took a break for breakfast and clicked on Salom’es geneagy. At 9:47 on June 9th. I read………..THIS!
- Married (2_BC), Bethlehem, Judea, to
Mary, daughter of Heli, Our Lady of Nazareth †48 with
James, son of Joseph, Saint James of Jerusalem, The Just. The Less. 1st Bishop of Jerusalem †82- Joseph, son of Joseph
- Simon, son of Joseph
- Jude, son of Joseph
Mary Jacob, daughter of Joseph, Nazarene priestess †55- Salome, daughter Joseph, Princess
- Joanna, daughter of Jacob
- Jesus Christ, King of Nazareth, son of GOD †33
- Married to Salome, daughter of Herodias
- Married to Salome, daughter of Herodias
- Married to Salome, daughter of Herodias
I am still in shock! Salome is…..The Stepmother of Jesus of Nazareth?
What? What has God wrought? I will share this with the LDS Sister tonight.
LDS groups and Utah Republicans rage as military no longer counts church as Christian under Hegseth religion list shake-up
Josh Marcus
Sun, June 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM PDT
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- The Pentagon’s new policy does not classify The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Christian religion, sparking outrage among members and politicians.
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Mormon leaders, military veterans and elected officials reacted with anger to a new Department of Defense policy that does not consider The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be a Christian religion as part of a wider effort to cut down the U.S. military’s list of recognized faiths.
“The Pentagon’s decision to list The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apart from other Christian faiths is wrong and needs to be corrected,” Republican Rep. Mike Kennedy, of heavily Mormon Utah, wrote on X on Sunday.
“No one needs to wonder where members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stand,” he added. “We stand with Christ. We are Christians. On that ground, and on the much larger ground of shared faith, values, and purpose, Latter-day Saints stand alongside many Christians of every tradition in following the teachings of Christ. We only ask to be accurately portrayed. I strongly urge the Department to correct the record.”
In a separate X post, Sen. John Curtis of Utah said church members “are among the most patriotic, service-oriented individuals in our country.”
“They are also unequivocally Christian — just look at who is in the name of the Church,” he added. “It is unacceptable for a government entity to characterize a faith in a manner that contradicts the religion’s own foundational tenets. I am working now to ensure a correction is made.”
Eric Biggart, chair of the LDS Dems Caucus, told ABC4 that the change didn’t surprise him, and that his understanding of Christianity is far different than values enacted by members of the Trump administration.
“For us on the left, it’s like, yeah, of course the Trump Administration doesn’t believe in our version of Christianity,” he said. “That’s been clear to us for 10 years now.”
The Pentagon’s attempte to define Christianity “in modern American politics is pretty much a perfect summation of what the whole era of Trump has been for this last decade,” he added.
The LDS Church declined to comment.
The Independent has requested comment from the Pentagon.
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Jenna Carson, a Latter-day Saint who served as an active-duty chaplain in the Air Force until 2025, told the Salt Lake Tribune she had never previously had any issues regarding her Christianity in the military.
“We’re all confused about it,” she said.
Pentagon’s list of recognized faith codes has been reduced from more than 200 to just 31, consolidating some religions into general categories such as Muslim or evangelical Christian, while eliminating numerous other faiths entirely from the list, lumping them into a general “other religions” category.
Defense Department official Sean Parnell defended the change in a post on X, arguing it was designed to aid chaplains as they gathered information on how to serve members of common religions within their units.
The policy was not “designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any faith or religious belief, nor is it intended to provide a list of ‘officially approved’ religions,” he wrote.
The change, first described in a May memo and reported by Military.com, nonetheless angered a wide variety of critics and faith leaders.
John Compere, a retired general and board member of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, argued the changes were not about efficiency but instead “partisan political purposes.”
“Such detrimental action damages the morale of our troops and degrades their freedom of religion provided by the United States Constitution, Department of Defense directives and Armed Forces regulations,” he wrote in a post on the foundation’s website.
The Pentagon under the direction of Secretary Pete Hegseth is “elevating one narrow religious worldview from the top of the chain of command,” according to Rev. Paul Raushenbush, a Baptist minister and head of the progressive Interfaith Alliance.
“The First Amendment does not allow the government to create a hierarchy of faiths, and it certainly does not allow the Pentagon to decide which beliefs are worthy of recognition,” he told the Associated Press.
Hegseth himself has spoken about his changes to the chaplain corps in political terms, describing the reforms as “making the Chaplain Corps Great Again,” a play on Trump’s MAGA campaign slogan.
“In an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism, chaplains have been minimized, viewed by many as therapists instead of ministers,” Hegseth said of religious leaders in the military in a December video.
Hegseth has incorporated his religion into his official actions unlike any defense secretary in modern American history.
An evangelical Christian, he has led Christian prayer services at the Pentagon and has suggested God is on the side of U.S. troops in the American war against Muslim-majority Iran, alarming religious freedom advocates.
“This is completely, totally unprecedented,” Michael Weinstein, the president and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, previously told The Independent. “He’s making it clear that this is Jesus versus Muhammad.”
Hegseth also has multiple tattoos featuring Crusader-era imagery and slogans.
In his 2020 book American Crusade, Hegseth rejected the separation of church and state as “leftist folklore.”
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Paranoia is so strong inside Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon that it’s crippling decision making and preparedness: report
Isabel Keane
Tue, June 9, 2026 at 1:03 PM PDT
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- Pete Hegseth’s leadership at the Pentagon has led to a culture of secrecy, paranoia, and distrust among senior officers, affecting decision-making and preparedness.
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Secrecy, paranoia and distrust are running rampant inside Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon, crippling decision-making and preparedness, according to a report.
The former Fox News host has fired more than two dozen senior officers, pushed out a Navy secretary and personally intervened in promotions across all four military branches, according to CNN.
Fifteen current and former Pentagon officials have revealed the current culture of distrust and paranoia that has plagued the Department of Defense ever since Hegseth took over, telling CNN that troops have to sign nondisclosure agreements and submit to polygraph tests to learn about operations.
A senior Pentagon official told CNN that every move staffers made was calculated. “Everything we did on a daily basis, we were calculating, ‘Is this going to keep the boss employed, or is this going to get him fired?’”
“Every single day, every decision that we made, that was a planning factor…It’s very unusual for that to be considered so heavily,” the official added.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, the most recent firing, was one example shared with CNN about widespread secrecy within the department. George had requested an in-person meeting with Hegseth on April 1 and was told he was fired the next day over an abrupt phone call.
Moments after Hegseth hung up, having only given ‘little’ explanation of the firing, CBS News’ Jennifer Jacobs shared news of his dismissal on X, leaving George to confirm the news to his staff later.
“People had seen the tweet,” a Pentagon official told CNN. “It was awkward because everybody’s looking at him, like what is he going to say?”
The staffer noted that George delivered the news matter-of-factly and almost tried to make light of the situation to make it less awkward.
“The staff proceeded to, one by one, either go and give him a handshake or a hug,” the official said. “It was solemn — as if someone had died.”
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The high turnover at the Pentagon, and especially George’s firing, has set alarm bells off for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll praised George during a House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing last month, after his ouster, saying, “There is no person that has more respect for Gen. George and his 42 years of service, his Purple Heart, his wife Patty, their grandkids, their kids. I adore them.”
Hegseth, however, declined to explain the firing to lawmakers,only offering that it’s “very difficult to change the culture of a department that has been destroyed by the wrong perspectives with the same officers that were there.”
The defense secretary’s remarks show that George’s firing is “part of this undefinable culture war that Hegseth wants as his legacy,” the Pentagon official said.
In addition to the many firings, Hegseth has also kept military planners at arm’s length in the lead-up to the war with Iran, with his abrupt decision-making often causing issues for U.S. commanders, the sources said.
“A year-plus later, there is a lack of clear internal processes within the Pentagon…caused by mass paranoia,” the Pentagon official said of Hegseth’s time in the role. “Everything is a case-by-case basis because there’s no delegation, there’s no trust. And if there’s no delegation or trust, policy decisions can’t be made.”
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said to CNN: “The anonymous sources cited by CNN are outsiders with a clear political agenda to smear the Department and undermine Secretary Hegseth’s leadership through partisan hit pieces.”
“Every successful organization goes through leadership changes, and we thank those who have departed for their service to the country,” he added. “Decisive steps were taken to align military leadership with the priorities of the President, the Secretary and our warfighters.” The Independent has contacted the Pentagon for comment.
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The vice president of the United States and a Washington, D.C.-based exorcist have something in common: They both say UFOs are demons.
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