'Very alarming': Internal backlash erupts as Hegseth's big religion purge deadline looms

Service members and chaplains are raising alarms as a deadline nears for troops to choose a religion from a sharply reduced list approved by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon.The Defense Department is cutting the military’s recognized religious affiliations from 211 to 31, an 85 percent reduction, according to a May memo obtained by MS NOW, and only nine of the remaining options are non-Christian faiths....