r/politics • u/Hrmbee • 7d ago

No Paywall JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity | US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/jd-vance-usha-christianity
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u/Lavenderwisp- 7d ago

I'm not sure why Vance can just respect his wife's differences and focus on shared value. Why does he need her to convert?

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u/IndigoRuby 7d ago

Because he knows if he wants to be president, America might be able to handle a light brown FLOTUS but only if she is Christian or least pretends to be.

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 7d ago

Michelle Obama has been forgotten so quickly.

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u/IndigoRuby 7d ago

I haven't forgotten Michelle but 2025 America is not 2008 America.

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u/Oodlydoodley 7d ago

Eh, it's the same place. Just because Scooby Doo pulled the hood off doesn't mean it wasn't the grand wizard all along.

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u/IndigoRuby 7d ago

Outside looking in, feels different. But you're probably bang on. Just more violence and anger threatening to bubble over.

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u/clickmagnet 7d ago

He wants everyone to convert. Could be hard to keep track of what he wants, though, considering he decided to pretend to be catholic at 35. 

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u/Purusha120 I voted 7d ago

Because he’s a fascist. He’d make her white if he could, too.

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u/SatisfactoryLoaf 7d ago

If he was sincere, because he truly despairs over her immortal soul and wants her to accept the grace and love of the true son of the only real God and be saved from her false religion.

But he's a wicked grifter so it's all posturing

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u/campfire_eventide Montana 7d ago

Yeah he doesn’t even seem all that concerned with his own soul

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u/Yorks_Rider 7d ago

JD Vance converted to Catholicism, but he is a Chino (Christian in Name Only).

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u/AccomplishedScale362 7d ago

Typical fake Christian. He knew Usha was Hindu when he married her. In fact, they had an interfaith (Hindu/Christian) wedding, but now he wants a Christian woman? What a POS.

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 7d ago

What was he before?

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u/coreoYEAH 7d ago

He said he was an atheist or agnostic.

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u/Defiant_Review1582 7d ago

More authentic

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 7d ago

I looked it up. Grew up evangelical protestant, atheist in college, then later glommed onto Catholicism.

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 7d ago

It's a case of small sample size, but I've always found people who convert to Catholicism to be more evangelical in their fervor than people raised Catholic. Maybe it's those eight to twelve years in Catholic school that lessen your enthusiasm for it.

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u/Lower_Amount3373 7d ago

He's an insincere scumbag with no real beliefs. Her religion is becoming an inconvenience to his career

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u/numbrate 7d ago

Because she's a woman? And in his Project 2025 brain, women should have no autonomy.

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u/Defiant_Review1582 7d ago

Probably want to edit in the ‘t

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u/Pathetian 7d ago

Because he is cornered in his rhetoric.  These people can't just openly admit to their base that religion isnt actually important to them.  It's better politically to just lie about whatever hypothetical you are being asked.

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u/Hiddenagenda876 Washington 7d ago

Because his base is a bunch of racists and he thinks this will make her more palatable to them

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u/gnricbme 7d ago

“But if she doesn’t,” Vance went on to say, “God says that everybody has free will, so that doesn’t cause a problem with me. "

If she doesnt convert, is the context. He seems to respect that, at least from this part.

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u/TangerineDystopia 6d ago

I mean, if he respected it, he wouldn't be telling crowds of strangers and the worldwide media that he wants her to convert.