Vance publicly calls out Hindu wife Usha and hopes she converts to Christianity – Irish Star

Vice President JD Vance told a room full of college students that he is raising his three children to be Christians and hopes that his wife, Usha, will convert from Hinduism to Christianity.
Debating students at the University of Mississippi, along with Turning Point CEO Erika Kirk, the vice president let it slip that he hoped his wife would switch religions and that she often came with the family to church on Sundays. "And yes, my wife did not grow up Christian," he told the audience while answering a question.
"I think it's fair to say that she grew up in a Hindu family, but not a particularly religious family in either direction," added Vance. "In fact, when I met my wife, we were both, I would consider myself an agnostic or an atheist, and that's what I think she would have considered herself as well."
"You know, everybody has to come to their own arrangement here," the vice president continued. "The way that we've come to our arrangement is, she's my best friend, we talk to each other about this stuff."
It was then that Vance revealed that he and Usha "decided to raise our kids Christian." Vance added, "Our two oldest kids who go to school they go to a Christian school. Our 8-year-old did his first communion about a year ago."
According to Vance, "That's the way that we have come to our arrangement." The vice president added that his son, Ewan, is "very proud of his First Communion."
Vance's comment received a massive cheer from the assembled students. "Thank you, guys. I'll tell him that Ole Miss wishes him the best."
"I think everybody has to have this own conversation when you're in a marriage," Vance continued. "I mean, it's true for friends of mine who are in Protestant and Catholic marriages, friends of mine who are in, you know, atheist and Christian marriages."
"You just gotta talk to, the only advice I can give is you just gotta talk to the person that God has put you with, and you've gotta make those decisions as a family unit," Vance said. "For us, it works out. Now, most Sundays, Usha will come with me to church."
"As I've told her and I've said publicly, and I'll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends, do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by church," bleated Vance. "I honestly do wish that because I believe in the Christian gospel and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way, but if she doesn't, then god says everybody has free will."
According to Vance, the difference in religion "doesn't cause a problem for me," and that "that's something you work out with your friends with your family with the person that you love again the one of the most important Christian principles is that you respect free will." Vance also joked, "Usha's closer to the priest who baptized me than maybe I am."
"They talk about this stuff," he added. "My attitude is you figure this stuff out as a family and you trust in God to have a plan and you try to follow it as best as you can."
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