Vice President JD Vance, who drew scrutiny this week by saying he hopes his Hindu wife converts to Christianity, on Friday pushed back against critics, accusing them of “anti-Christian bigotry.”

At a Turning Point USA-sponsored event in Mississippi on Wednesday to honour slain activist Charlie Kirk, Vance was asked about raising three children in an interfaith marriage with second lady Usha Vance. The questioner asked why conservatives seemed to have made Christianity a prerequisite for being considered a patriotic American.

“Yes, my wife did not grow up Christian. I think it’s fair to say that she grew up in a Hindu family, but not a particularly religious family in either direction,” Vance responded, adding that both he and his wife were “agnostic or an atheist” when they met and later

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