JD Vance takes issue with ‘disgusting’ claim he disrespected wife Usha
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JD Vance responds to harsh comments
JD Vance insisted that it was Usha who ‘encouraged’ him to ‘reconnect’ with his Christian faith.
JD took over X on October 31 to deliver a fiery response to critics of his comments.
“My Christian faith tells me that the gospel is true and good for man,” Vance began. “My wife is – as I said at TPUSA – the most amazing blessing I have in my life.”
JD insisted that Usha ‘encouraged’ him to ‘rejoin’ his Christian faith years ago.
“She is not a Christian,” he claimed, “and has no plans to convert, but like many people in an interfaith marriage – or any interfaith relationship for that matter – I hope that one day she will see things the way I do.”
The politician noted that he will “continue to love and support” his wife, “regardless of her views” on religion, and will also “continue to talk to her about faith.”
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JD Vance said he hopes Usha will one day believe in the “Christian gospel.”
Usha Vance goes to church with JD “most Sundays,” he said.
When JD appeared at the Turning Point USA event, he was asked the following: “You are raising three children in a cross-cultural-racial-religious household. How do you teach your children not to put your religion above their mother’s?”
JD explained when he met his wife that he was “agnostic and atheist,” and so was Usha.
“Now Usha comes to church with me most Sundays,” he said. “At the end of the day, do I hope that she is somehow affected by the same thing that I am affected by the church? Yes, I honestly wish that because I believe in the Christian gospel, and I hope that my wife will eventually see it the same way.”
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Ezra Levant rips JD Vance apart
After Canadian media personality Ezra Levant criticized him, he fired back on social media platform X.
JD’s comments drew widespread criticism online, but a comment from Ezra Levant, a Canadian media personality and the CEO of far-right media website Rebel News, seemed to have stung him as it inspired his passionate response this morning.
“It’s weird to throw your wife’s religion under the bus in public for a moment of acceptance from the groy press,” Levant wrote.
Gryopers is a term associated with white Christian nationalists linked to far-right personality Nick Fuentes.
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JD Vance called Ezra Levant’s criticism of him “anti-Christian bigotry.”
Vance responded to Levant’s criticism, saying, “First, the question came from a person apparently to my left about my interfaith marriage. I’m a public figure and people are curious, and I wasn’t going to avoid the question.”
He also claimed the post caused “anti-Christian bigotry.”
“Yes, Christians have beliefs,” his rant concluded. “And yes, those beliefs have many consequences, one of which is that we want to share them with other people. That’s very normal, and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda.”
