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Yesterday’s newsletter covered the White Christian Nationalist concept of being “unequally yoked” in marriage. Please check it out if you missed it, because today’s newsletter builds on this theme.
The White Christian Nationalist VP finds himself in a dilemma: He married a non-Christian Hindu Brown woman in 2014, five years before he converted to the Opus Dei Catholic cult. He has three children with her.
White Christian Nationalists call this situation being “unequally yoked” in marriage.
He has also openly questioned the frequency and ease of American divorce. Last year, his comments questioning divorce in abusive marriages caused a furor. He has openly attacked the ease of no-fault divorce.
I mentioned his aversion to divorce in this October 2024 newsletter:
But he is also ambitious. Since his 2014 marriage, he has shape-shifted multiple times to ascend to the next rung of power.
He is on the cusp of the presidency, a triumph for a horrifically abused person from a destitute family sprung from America’s most mocked geographic region.
But he has a problem: The racist MAGA base hates his Brown wife.
No matter how they have tried to package the Second Lady, MAGA mocks her Hindu faith, spreads conspiracy theories about an “Indian” coup, and fear-mongers about an influx of Indian immigrants that would destroy American’s so-called “white” identity. MAGA also makes fun of their children, questioning why they chose Indian names to honor their mother’s heritage.
We can read the VP’s comments about his wife’s faith and his wish for her to convert to (Catholic, Opus Dei cult) Christian Nationalism one of two ways:
One: His comments at Ole Miss were a possible attempt to address the MAGA base’s racism and support his wife.
Since the VP and his team are really bad a room-reading, I can see them thinking this kind of double-speak would land: I really wish my wife would be a Christian because of how much it speaks to me; but I love my wife and respect her choices. (That’s essentially what he said.)
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn she had a hand in crafting this message. He has talked openly about how she manages him. Ironically, I believe his fleeting attempts at palatability are driven by her.
This might have landed had he leaned into a more inclusive message: We all come to God however we do. I can’t control what speaks to me or what speaks to anyone else. I love my wife and respect her choices.
But because he is a Christian Nationalist, he couldn’t say it that way. Christian Nationalists do not believe we come to God however we do. There is only ONE way to God, and it is THEIR way (even though these “ways” differ.) Nor do they accept anything besides their version of Christian Nationalism as THE ONE TRUE FAITH and their god THE ONE TRUE GOD. MAGA WCNs would have rioted.
So they split the baby over this (I’d bet my head on a railroad track) planted question. It probably didn’t endear him further to MAGA, AND it made him look like a jerk to pretty much everyone else.
Two: His comments at Ole Miss are laying possible groundwork for him to divorce his wife without violating Christian Nationalist dogma.
On 15 July 2025, I did a deep dive into what Christian Nationalists call “Biblical marriage.”
In that newsletter, I outlined two ways Christian Nationalists justify divorce: On the grounds of adultery (per Jesus) and this jewel:
The apostle Paul also provided a corollary for divorce in I Corinthians 6:14: If a Christian marries a non-Christian, and the non-Christian wants a divorce, the Christian will not be deemed to violate the terms of Biblical marriage by seeking to divorce the non-believer.
“But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace”. I Corinthians 6:14 KJV
If the VP’s comments at Ole Miss weren’t coordinated in advance…if he blindsided his wife with them and humiliated her publicly, then I suspect it was in service to driving her to ask for a divorce. She is the “non-Christian.” If she seeks the divorce, he can still claim his divorce doesn’t violate the Bible.
He can paint himself as the poor, upstanding Christian man who sacrificed his marriage and lost his wife because she chose to continue to be a heretic. (Because let me tell you, reader. MAGA will paint ANY divorce between these two as her fault and elevate him to sainthood for accepting the end of this marriage.) And he can continue to condemn no-fault divorce as a divorced WCN man by parroting I Corinthians 6:14, complete with a “sad, helpless me” narrative.
WCN MAGA WILL EAT THAT UP AND BEG FOR SECONDS.
There’s also a third option: She could convert to Opus Dei Catholicism. But her conversion won’t solve MAGA’s racism. They will NEVER accept her.
Help more Americans understand what’s behind the comments and behavior at Ole Miss. For the love of God/the goddess/the universe/sanity, make this about more than pleather pants and illicit clenches. Share this newsletter with your connections and give them a better grounding in current events.
I feel like I need a shower after bathing in so much grossness. But I hope I have explained how divorce would work in a White Christian Nationalist theocracy:
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One party has been caught in adultery. If it is the woman, she will probably be forced to remain in the marriage unless the man wants a divorce that will be blamed on her. If a man like Ken Paxton is the adulterer, the divorce will be granted when the woman is powerful and has other dirt on the man; otherwise, she will shut up and accept his philandering as part of being a “good Christian wife who submits to her husband.” (Or they could fulfill certain WCN male wet dreams and publicly stone adulterers to death. I wrote more about that HERE.)
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The non-Christian wants a divorce. These will only be granted in cases like the VP, where the marriage is a stumbling block to more money and power for a member of the regime. Regular men will be expected to coerce their non-Christian wives to submit to Christianity rather than divorce. Christian women will be punished by being forced to remain with their non-Christian husbands, regardless of how they are treated.
Prepare yourselves and your communities accordingly.