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People Are Reacting To This Excruciating Clip Of JD Vance Saying He Wished His Wife Would Convert To Christianity "He's going to be the first Vice President to get Divorced while in office." Hot Topic 🔥 Full coverage and conversation on Politics If you've ever wanted a window into the cursed marriage of JD and Usha Vance, then congratulations, his latest comments about her at a Turning Point USA event will fit the bill. As a refresher, the couple met at Yale Law School in 2010 and wed four years later. They share three children: Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel. Now, it's worth noting that Usha's parents are immigrants from India, and she's previously said that she is Hindu. In an interview from June of this year, Usha explained that JD actually wasn't Catholic until he converted around the time of the birth of their first child. "When you convert to Catholicism, it comes with several important obligations, like to raise your child in the faith and all that. We had to have a lot of real conversations about how you do that when I'm not Catholic and I'm not intending to convert," she explained, adding that the kids were attending Catholic school but could ultimately "choose" whether to be baptized or further their "access to the Hindu tradition." She further said that her grandmother is a "particularly devout Hindu" and their children are exposed to the religion via her. Fast-forward to yesterday, and JD was asked about raising his children in an interracial and interfaith home at the University of Mississippi. "Yes, my wife did not grow up Christian. I think it's fair to say that she grew up in a Hindu family. But not a particularly religious family in either direction," he replied. BuzzFeed TrendingHot Topic Let's chat about all things Politics See our Politics Discussions "In fact, when I met my wife, I would consider myself an agnostic or an atheist, and that's what I think she would have considered herself as well," he continued. "We decided to raise our kids Christian. 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." The crowd then applauds, which he thanks. "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 in by church? Yeah, honestly, I 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 and so that doesn't cause a problem for me. That's something you work out with your friends, with your family, with the person that you love," he added. As the clip made the rounds, the reactions poured in: Oof. Let me know all your thoughts in the comments.
