US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

JD Vance is doubling down on comments he made about wanting his wife, Usha Vance, to convert to Christianity – remarks that drew political backlash from some quarters.

At an event with Turning Point USA at the University of Mississippi to honor the conservative group’s slain founder Charlie Kirk, an audience member questioned the US vice-president about how he sees the links between American patriotism and Christianity.

“Why are we making Christianity one of the major things that you have to have in common to be one of you guys? To show that I love America just as much as you do?” the audience member asked, after pointing out that Vance’s wife, Usha, is Hindu and they are raising their children in an interfaith marriage.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
    80·
    7 days ago

    She knew who she was marrying so I feel nothing for her. But I feel so bad for those poor kids, they will grow up in the center of this racist facist shit storm.

    • madjo@feddit.nl
      301·
      7 days ago

      Did she? I mean turning from anti-trump to full blown maga is a pretty hard 180 degree turn. If my partner were to do something like that, I wouldn’t think I’d know them anymore.

      Then again, you might be right, and she knowingly married an opportunist without any morals or principles. And then such a turn is just another wednesday.

      • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one
        162·
        7 days ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance

        This is a good summary of his life so you can know what you’re talking about. JD was already attending Yale and buds with peter thiel before she married him (that is, he was already an awful person). And she attended Yale too so she of all people should know how awful people who go to Yale are.

      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
        12·
        6 days ago

        People like this don’t suddenly become this way, he’s probably always been an opportunist willing to sink to any level to get what he wants and the only thing she might be surprised by is the anti Indian hate that is causing problems for her now, I guess she assumed the hate would remain focused on Mexicans, blacks etc.

  • JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml
    403·
    7 days ago

    This isn’t newsworthy. I’m not a fan of Vance at all, but his comments here aren’t even bad. If you read the article, the comments boil down to: “I believe this, I wish she did too, it’s fine if she never does, I love her regardless.” It’s honestly pretty healthy to be able to have that in a relationship.

    This is practically at the level of criticizing Obama’s tan suit, and is just noise and distraction in a news cycle filled with actually bad things (multiple wars, the government shutdown, measles outbreaks, a hurricane, etc). Don’t spread this nonsense. It’s fodder for the other side to call people out for being focused on ridiculous, unfounded slights, and allows them to not pay attention to real issues. Make noise about things that matter.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 days ago

    Its so dumb that not one dumbass reporter has asked “if christianity is so important to these people how come they’re only deporting groups of people who are more christian on average than the US population?”

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      5·
      7 days ago

      thats why erika kirk was there. shes a widow, looking for her new grift daddy, and vance is that white grift daddy.

    • beella@lemmings.world
      61·
      7 days ago

      Honestly, he probably couldn’t land an attractive one.

      In her mind, she hit the jackpot.

  • j_elgato@leminal.spaceEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    I see that Government by Pro-Wrestling theatrics has given way to Government by Soap Opera theatrics…

  • Taldan@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 days ago

    I don’t know for sure that Vance is going to fuck Kirk’s wife, but if he does he was 100% thinking about it at this point

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
    46·
    7 days ago

    Who wants to throw in €5 on a betting pool for what month the divorce/widow marriage happens?

    Also, who wants €20 against a quick poligimist marriage to ensure dominave over the browns and the blondes?

    I’m good for it, I swear.

  • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
    34·
    7 days ago

    his current wife is going along for the ride on this one because I imagine she’s already been promised a sort of “golden parachute” so to speak. She knows shes done for thus the reason she’s been looking more “rough” lately.

    He’s probably already slept with Kirks widow, current wife already knows he has also.