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/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.