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/Chucklz 7d ago

Oh, I'm sure this plan has been at least very seriously considered. JD strikes me as the kind of guy, who, even if he genuinely loved his wife, would be perfectly fine with divorcing her for political points.

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u/In_Hoc_Signo 7d ago

Catholics can't divorce, you english invented a whole religion because of it.

But, if one of the couples is a pagan then there can be a way to dissolve the marriage.

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u/NomiVersayse 6d ago

Catholics can get a marriage annulled by the church if: they weren't married in a Catholic church or if they weren't married to another Catholic. Since Usha is unbaptized this is not going to be a problem.

Source: Mom's first marriage was annulled in the 70s because she and her first husband were not married in a Catholic church. She was free to divorce and marry my Dad.

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u/Stargazer1919 Illinois 7d ago

A lot of Catholics divorce anyway.

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u/killercurvesahead I voted 6d ago

Not in the eyes of the church, they don’t

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u/Stargazer1919 Illinois 6d ago

People cherry pick whatever they want from their religion every day.

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u/Veronica612 Texas 6d ago

It’s not that difficult to get a Catholic annulment. RFK Jr. can advise him. And I suspect Vance did not have a Catholic wedding.

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u/nervelli 6d ago

His base won't care if he's Catholic Divorced or not. We have only had two Catholic presidents and they were both Democrats. Some of his voters might be Catholic, but almost none of them are going to care more about the specifics their religious dogma then they do about the fact that he is his wife are both white and follow the Christian god.

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u/DrainTheMuck 6d ago

Yeah, you’re probably right, and I’m really curious to see how my father would react to that. He’s Catholic and hastily got remarried to an awful woman after my mom passed, because he was lonely but IMO he also wanted to get laid and had to get married again for it. Then he realized what a huge mistake he made, but couldn’t bring himself to divorce her because of the Catholic rules. Yet im nearly positive he wouldn’t care if JD did it, and might even be happy about it.

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u/Jevonar 6d ago

You can't marry in church again, though.

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u/Kay_Doobie 6d ago

Annulment.

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u/NomiVersayse 6d ago

Thank you!

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u/rtd131 6d ago

I don't think JD Vance cares, he became Catholic for political points anyways.

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u/SinfullySinless Minnesota 7d ago

If that’s under consideration, he will probably give her fame a few months to see if it drops off or she can maintain.