JD Vance says he wants his wife, Usha, who is from a Hindu family, to become Christian

[Jilly_in_VA]

Vice President JD Vance said at an event on a college campus this week that he wants to see his wife, second lady Usha Vance, who is the child of Hindu Indian immigrants, convert to Christianity.

The vice president was speaking at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi Oct. 29 that also included Erika Kirk, the widow of Vance's late friend, Charlie Kirk. A member of the audience, who said she is an immigrant, asked JD Vance critical questions about his call to reduce legal immigration into the U.S. and how he is teaching his kids "not to keep your religion ahead of their mother's religion."

JD Vance, who is considered a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2028, said his wife grew up in a Hindu family that wasn't particularly religious, and that the two were both agnostics or atheists when they met each other. Usha Vance's parents immigrated to the United States from India. JD Vance converted to Catholicism after his marriage, and was baptized in 2019.

"Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah, I honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way," Vance said.

"But if she doesn't, then God says, 'Everybody has free will,' and so that doesn't cause a problem for me. That's something you work out with your friends, with your family, with the person that you love," he added.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/01/jd-vance-usha-christianity-conversion/87033409007/

And I hope she stands up to him and doesn't. Most people I know who are culturally Hindu do NOT convert. Usha is looking more and more unhappy and I wish she' d give John David Bowman-Hamel-Vance the boot!

[usonian]

1. "Freedom of Religion" AS LONG AS IT'S MINE.

F him to hell.

[kysrsoze]

2. Wow, attaway to stand up for your wife and any convictions you may have supposedly had... couch fucker.

What an absolutely spineless tool. He's seeing the way all the other racists in his party are bashing Ramaswamy and Kash Patel. And of course he doesn't push back on it. Instead he cowers and does what they want.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Is he in need of a human sacrifice?

What if she wants you to be a decent human being. What if she has observed you republicans in action and wants nothing to do with you Christian’s. What if jd?

[no_hypocrisy]

4. That's about as selfish as you can get IMO.

Convert because my religion is right and yours is wrong.

Convert because when we die, I will go to Heaven and you won't.

Convert because our children and I want you to be the same as us.

Convert because I'm the head of the family.

Convert because you make me feel uncomfortable.

Convert because it will help me in 2028.

[Iris]

5. This is disgusting. He is such a piece of shit

[Traildogbob]

6. Well she probably

Equally wants HIM to stop fucking their couches and ruining the fabric, and let HIM explain to the kids this Christian ritual he performs.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Why doesn't he convert to Hinduism?

Bet the thought never crossed his pathetic little mind.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Gee, he just converted to Catholic.

And maybe Hindus are not allowed to join Opus Dei, which gave him a political boost (in some circles).

[MineralMan]

8. And now, Vance is a Roman Catholic, which means he's not supposed to divorce

and hook up with Erika there. Live sucks, I guess. I suppose he could get his current wife detained and exported by the ICE goons, though.

Looks like Vance is going to go through some things, maybe...

[Prairie Gates]

25. There is hardly any Catholic doctrine in the US

Catholics are divorced at the same rate as everyone else. The teachings of the Pope are routinely ignored - indeed, the prior Pope was routinely attacked as too far left by various so-called Catholic pundits. Vance is not only pro-death penalty contrary to any possible reading of Catholic doctrine, he's also pro blowing people out of the water without trial or investigation, which makes even the usual dodges of jus ad bellum a total joke. US Catholics, probably since the 1980s, have been essentially Protestant / Calvinist evangelicals (like most of the other Christian denominations here). Not only is US Catholicism unrecognizable to most Catholics abroad, it's not even recognizable to US Catholics from the 1970s.

[Deuxcents]

27. Yep..he needs to spend more time at home instead of those TP shrines/rallies

[Iggo]

30. And we all know the Roman Catholics are tight on marriage, but real loose on who you can fuck.

[2MuchNoise]

9. I hope eventually that JD will become a human being.

[sop]

10. Imagine the corporate media shitstorm if a Democratic VP said he and his wife were agnostics or atheists when they met.

[Irish_Dem]

11. American Christianity is such a great religion.

Torturing, murdering, raping Jesus cult.

[MineralMan]

12. Well, as God said, himself, as described in Isaiah 45:7

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."

[uponit7771]

13. MAGA leadership has stoked murder before, I pray she watches her back

[SamuelTheThird]

15. Epitome of spineless, craven shitheelism

[Prairie Gates]

23. This is a guy who has publicly stated that he's barely a caregiver to his kids

And we're to believe they're being brought up in the Catholic church when his wife wants no part of it?

Agreed. His Catholicism itself seems craven and disconnected. His rush to throw his wife under the bus is really a shocking testament to his character.

[Ping Tung]

16. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine

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[Sibelius Fan]

17. She should be free to choose what form of make believe she wishes to follow, without pressure

from her husband.

[Sailingdiver]

18. How about him first.

Let him give Christianity a shot.

[JI7]

19. Most black and latino people in this country are Christian

So why do they hate them ?

[Prairie Gates]

20. Wait, I'm sorry, what? Vance decided to become Catholic in 2019?

"I believe in the Christian Gospel."

Buddy, you believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church

[Jilly_in_VA]

21. I'm almost surprised JD didn't join ROCOR

(That's the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia). I don't like to say bad things about my fellow Orthodox, but ROCOR is known to be attracting a lot of reich-wing men lately, which I find very sad. It would be right (reich?) up his alley. But so is Opus Dei. They are VERY reich-wing.

[surfered]

22. Not familiar with the GOP form of Christianity.

They don’t welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, attend to the sick, and only love their neighbor if they’re straight white people.

[gulliver]

24. As a liberal, I see nothing wrong with what he said.

If Usha Vance decides to stay Hindu or become Christian, that's up to her. If we read the OP, Vance is not trying to make his wife become part of his religion. If he did, then there would be a case against what he said.

I think we're all agreed as liberals (who consider ourselves left of center), that forcing one's religious views on another is unacceptable and groups that do it are our adversaries, not our friends.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. If that's what he has planned in his own home, imaging what the rest of the US can expect

"I'm here to change your religion" is quite an ask.

[Initech]

28. And... cue the divorce!

[jeffreyi]

33. Yep. Hooking up with Erica.

Conjecture, not based on anything. Too many coincidences are happening.

[Iggo]

29. He means a Christian of Convenience, like he is.

[Paladin]

31. "God says, 'Everybody has free will.'"

Now there's a quote we can look forward to using against Vance---probably a dozen times a year, until he's no more than a vastly unpleasant memory. Everybody, do your part to make it happen...

[spanone]

32. VD VANCE is a fucking creep.

Christian my ass.

[Arazi]

34. She's from a very high caste family iirc. Chances are HER family expects him to come around to their POV

Indians/Hindus have many many centuries of their own proud culture and religion, and consider their world far superior to anything the US can offer.

It’s the height of arrogance to issue such a statement when he’s discussing her and her family who have their own history of which they’re rightfully entitled to take pride in without this kind of thinly veiled pressure

[mr715]

35. Vance wants Usha to change her name to Erika nt