Overview
- At a Turning Point USA event, the vice president said he hopes his Hindu-raised wife, Usha Vance, will eventually embrace Christianity.
- He told the audience their interfaith marriage works through mutual respect, citing Christian teaching on free will and saying it would not be a problem if she does not convert.
- Vance said the couple agreed to raise their three children Christian, noting two attend a Christian school and their 8-year-old completed First Communion about a year ago.
- Following online criticism, he posted that Usha is not a Christian and has no plans to convert, while adding he still hopes she may one day share his beliefs.
- Usha Vance has previously stated she does not intend to convert and that their children also have access to Hindu traditions, as Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism remains part of the family’s public history.