How do JD and Usha Vance's disparate beliefs affect their marriage and relationship with their children?

Some offense possibly occured in his father's Christian church and he had to leave that hometown congregation. Then he met a kind woman who was not Christian. Too many situations of "getting off the property" are arising in certain Protestant districts under hidden Catholic control.

JD Vance says he wants his wife, Usha, who is from a Hindu family, to become Christian

Vice President JD Vance said publicly that he wants his wife, Usha, a child of Indian Hindu immigrants, to convert to Christianity.

USA TODAYAysha Bagchi

"Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah, I 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," JD Vance said. ¶"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. ¶Vance also said he and his wife have decided to raise their three kids Christian and that the two oldest go to a Christian school.

The Christian Gospel is NOT, "Everybody has a free will." Vance has yet to explain his anti-Lutheran and anti-Protestant Catholic-only positions.

Martin Luther has explained very simply in "The Bondage of the Will" that the will is not free, but subject to human appetites, situations and circumstances. For example if someone is hungry, the "will" is not free but constrained or bound to the goal of finding something to eat.

Catholics use "free will" as churchyard slang for damnation and suicide, along with a sly justification for medieval torture. Life would end if the will were "free" and somehow not bound to feed its appetites.

J.D. Vance Used to Be an Atheist. What He Believes Now Is Telling.

He’s not an evangelical Christian. He’s a Catholic—of a very specific type.

SlateMolly Olmstead

Vance wasn’t always so unusual among his fellow Republicans: He grew up loosely evangelical Christian; he writes in Hillbilly Elegy that his commitment to his father’s church was strong but short-lived. As a young man, he identified for a while as an atheist. Then, as he recounted in a 2020 essay about his conversion for the Catholic magazine the Lamp, he reconnected with Christianity when he was searching for greater meaning in his life during law school. …

Fake video shows Usha Vance saying ‘I regret marrying JD Vance’

The clip allegedly showing the U.S. second lady speaking about her marriage received more than a million views in May 2025.

Snopes.comJordan Liles

Usha Vance Spoke To The Military Yesterday, And People Are Noticing One Tiiiiiiny Little Detail

Very, very interesting.

BuzzFeedKelley GreeneBuzzFeed Staff