‘Like your Hindu wife?’ : Controversy over JD Vance saying his Catholic faith makes him an opponent of ‘low-wage foreigners’

JD Vance has been criticized because he says his Catholic faith makes him alienated from ‘low-paid foreigners’.

US Vice President JD Vance has come under criticism after saying that his Catholic faith supports policies that oppose the entry of “low-wage foreigners” into the United States. Social media pointed to the fact that his wife, the other woman Usha Vance, is an Indian-American and a Hindu.Vance made the comments on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle while discussing his new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, which focuses on his conversion to Catholicism in 2019.Asked by host Laura Ingraham how his faith influences his decisions in public office, Vance said that his religion encourages humility and shapes his approach to policy making.“My faith is constantly telling me to have humility about what’s going on, so one of the things I try to do, Laura, is to constantly ask myself ‘what have we learned,’ ‘is what we’ve learned consistent with what I thought was going to happen or inconsistent with what I thought was going to happen,'” he said.He added, “I really think Christianity makes political leaders humble because real humility is how you learn, it’s how you learn about other people, it’s how you make better decisions over time.”Vance then linked his faith to the Trump administration’s economic agenda.“The second thing I would say, Laura, is that my faith leads me to remember that our economic policy does not exist for corporations, it does not exist for Wall Street, as much as we want everyone to be successful, it exists to support the dignity of the human being,” he said.The Vice President said: “We want every American to be able to raise a family, to be able to support themselves in comfort and dignity, that’s why we’re trying to bring investment and manufacturing back to America.”He added, “So we don’t like low-wage foreigners coming in and cutting the wages of American workers. We want ordinary Americans to be able to live dignified lives. I think that’s a very Christian concept.”The clip went viral, where many users accused Vance of misrepresenting Christian teachings. One person wrote, “What faith is that? Jesus literally said ‘Blessed are the poor.'”Another person wrote, ‘What he is saying is not the teaching of Jesus.’Another user said, ‘Jesus Christ was a low-paid foreigner.’One comment was more personal: “Like your Hindu wife Usha”?Usha Vance is America’s first Hindu second lady. The daughter of an Indian American and Indian immigrants, she was raised in a Hindu household in San Diego and graduated from Yale Law School. Earlier this year, during an interview with CBS News, Usha Vance said that she has no plans to convert to Catholicism like her husband. J.D. Vance later said that he hoped she might one day convert to Christianity, but clarified that he “has no plans to convert” and that he respects her decision.Her faith was previously criticized by some within the MAGA movement, where conservatives questioned Brown being a non-Christian, the second woman to be a Christian. The debate also followed J.D. Vance’s previous comments describing America as a Christian nation.

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