JD Vance says he wants his wife, Usha, who is from a Hindu family, to become Christian [View all]
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!
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