VP JD Vance Tells TPUSA Crowd Christian Values Are Key to America’s Future [WATCH]

Vice President J.D. Vance addressed thousands of students at a Turning Point USA event Wednesday night at the University of Mississippi, where he said America’s future depends on maintaining a “properly rooted Christian moral order.”

As Fox News reported, the event honored the late TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, whose widow Erika also spoke to the packed crowd before Vance took the stage.

During his remarks and an extended question-and-answer session, Vance discussed how his Christian faith shapes his leadership, addressed questions about religious liberty, and responded to an inquiry about raising his children in an interfaith household.

His comments focused heavily on faith’s role in public life and the moral grounding of the nation.

“I make no apologies for thinking that Christian values are an important foundation of this country,” Vance said when asked about the separation of church and state.

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“Anybody who’s telling you their view is neutral likely has an agenda to sell you. And I’m at least honest about the fact that I think the Christian foundation of this country is a good thing.”

Vance criticized modern liberalism as “a perverted version of Christianity,” explaining that while compassion for the disenfranchised is admirable, liberalism’s lack of moral or civic virtue has led to chaos.

“There’s nothing wrong, of course, with focusing on people who are disenfranchised,” Vance said.

“But if you completely separate it from any religious duty or any civic virtue, then that can actually become, for example, an inducement to lawlessness. You can’t just have compassion for the criminal. You also have to have justice too.”

He added that faith and governance must not be divorced from one another. “A properly rooted Christian moral order is such an important part of the future of our country,” Vance said.

When asked about God’s role in public life, Vance rejected the notion that the Constitution requires religion to be kept out of public spaces. “Anybody who tells you it’s required by the Constitution is lying to you,” he told the audience.

“The Supreme Court interpreted ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion’ to effectively throw the church out of every public place at the federal, state and local level. I think it was a terrible mistake, and we’re still paying for the consequences of it today.”

Vance also addressed questions about his interfaith marriage. His wife, Usha, is Hindu, and Vance spoke candidly about raising their two sons in the Christian faith.

“Most Sundays she will come with me to church,” he said. “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. But if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn’t cause a problem for me.”

Reflecting on Charlie Kirk’s influence, Vance said the late TPUSA leader helped him feel more comfortable expressing his faith publicly. “This is another way in which Charlie has affected my life,” Vance said.

“Even if people had very deep personal faith, they didn’t talk about it a whole lot. But the reason why I try to be the best husband I can be, the best father I can be, the reason why I care so much about all the issues that we’re going to talk about, is because I believe I’ve been placed in this position for a brief period of time to do the most amount of good for God and for the country that I love so much.”

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