Hindu Nationalists Trash JD Vance for Wanting His Wife to Share His Christian Faith, by Doug Bandow

Religious persecution remains a global scourge, and America’s nominal friends are sometimes as bad as its adversaries. Such as India, in which religious minorities suffer greatly under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. The country’s underlying intolerant attitudes have been highlighted by recent Hindu nationalist criticism of Vice President JD Vance’s Catholic faith.

When recently speaking to a Turning Point USA audience at the University of Mississippi, Vance answered a question about his wife, Usha, who grew up in a culturally Hindu household. Observed Vance: “Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? I honestly do wish that because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.” …..

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