JD Vance hopes his Indian-Hindu wife Usha will convert to Christianity — experts weigh in on interfaith marriage

US vice president JD Vance stirred row over interfaith marriage after revealing he hopes his Hindu wife, Usha Vance, may one day convert to Christianity. The comments were made last week at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi. They sparked a row among both MAGA supporters and liberals, many of whom argued that it is not moral to pressure a spouse to change their religion. Vance converted to Catholicism five years into his marriage, and was asked how he and his Indian-origin Hindu wife raise their children without favouring his faith. He replied, “Do I hope that eventually she is somehow moved by what I was moved by in 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. Bu