At a Turning Point USA event in Mississippi, Vance likely expected people at the event to give him easy praise. But that didn’t happen.
A brave woman challenged him about the bad mix of Christian extremism and white supremacy that he supports, even though he’s married to a Hindu woman.
She asked, “What I want to ask is, you are married to a woman who is not Christian…she still calls herself Hindu.
You are raising two kids, three kids, in an intercultural, racial, religious household.
“How are you maintaining or how are you teaching your kids not to keep your religion ahead of their mother’s religion?
Or how are you teaching them that your kind, their dad’s kind, who got here just a few years or a few decades ago, is different or is better than your mom’s kind who got here just a generation before?”
“How are you balancing that?
And when you talk about too many immigrants here, when did you guys decide that number? Why did you sell us a dream? You made us spend our youth, our wealth, in this country and gave us a dream. You don’t owe us anything. We have worked hard for it.”
“Then how can you as a vice president stand there and say that we have too many of them now and we are going to take them out to people who are here rightfully so by paying the money that you guys asked us.
You gave us the path, and now how can you stop it and tell us we don’t belong here anymore?”
“I’m not even Christian and I’m here standing to show support.
Why are we making Christianity one of the major things that you have to have in common to be one of you guys? So that I love America just as much as you do. Why is that still a question? Why do I have to be a Christian?” she finished.
Vance responded with the usual fake, smooth talking about focusing only on illegal immigration, which the Trump administration has clearly not done.
Then he turned to the question of his wife’s religion, and, well, he basically said he knows she’s going to hell but that doesn’t bother him!
Vance says, “Yeah, I honestly, I do wish that [my wife was Christian] because I believe in the Christian gospel and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way, but if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will and so that doesn’t cause a problem for me.”
Of course, in Vance’s religion, people who are not baptized and Christian are sent to hell…meaning he believes she’s going to hell but that “doesn’t cause a problem” for him.
Now that’s what we call Republican FAMILY VALUES (™)!
Kudos to this brave woman for calling out Vance to his face in front of the whole world.
There is no way to possibly square the ideals of this nation, the Constitution that Vance has sworn an oath to uphold, and the tenets of Vance’s own Christian religion with the cruelties and immorality of the monstrous anti-immigrant crackdown that Trump and Vance are inflicting on this nation, and so all he can do is just repeat the same old lies and talking points over and over again.
We know the truth.
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