This article was first published on ABC Religion & Ethics .

Responding to an audience question put to him during a recent Turning Point USA event , US Vice-President JD Vance expressed his hope that his wife, Usha, who was raised in a Hindu family, would convert to Christianity. After explaining what drew him to the Catholic Church, Vance said :

“For us, it works out now most Sundays, Usha will come with me to church, as I’ve told her, and I’ve said publicly, and I’ll say now … do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church. Yeah, I 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. But if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will, and so that d

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