Trump-appointed Justice Gorsuch rebukes Vance: 'We have a First Amendment for crying out loud'

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump-appointed Judge Neil Gorsuch has slammed Vice President JD Vance over his remark on Christianity, saying “everybody has freedom of religion” after Vance said that Christianity is America’s creed.

Vance recently claimed that he is not saying that one should be Christian to be American, but “Christianity is America’s creed.”

Justice Gorsuch pushes back on Vance’s Christianity remark

JD Vance's remark came during his recent publicity tour to promote his new book about his conversion to Catholicism.

Vance recently claimed, "I’m not saying you have to be a Christian to be an American. I’m saying something simpler and truer: Christianity is America’s creed, the shared moral language from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond."

In a recent PBS interview, the President Donald Trump-appointed jurist dismantled the vice president's claim that Christianity forms the ideological foundation of American governance.

Gorsuch hit out at Vance over growing Christian nationalism

"And so America was not found -- I mean we have a First Amendment for crying out loud. No established religion, everybody has a freedom of religion, everybody has the freedom of speech, we are all equal under law," he told PBS host Margaret.

"Now you can not believe in those ideas. Fair enough. But then we have a problem."

According to The Hill, Gorsuch observed, "...that Charles Carroll, who was also Catholic, signed the Declaration of Independence alongside members of other Christian faiths. He also explained that Amish and Quakers settled in the then-British colonies."

"We were founded, a lot of our colonies, for our religious pluralism, right? And the opportunity to practice your own faith in your own way," Gorsuch patiently explained.

"Those things are perfect ideas that speak to every human heart and that unite us all," Gorsuch elaborated for emphasis.

JD Vance's journey of Christianity

JD Vance’s path to Catholicism evolved from an unchurched childhood and adolescent Pentecostalism to angry college atheism, and finally to his formal baptism in August 2019. He detailed this spiritual evolution in his memoir Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.

JD Vance openly shares an interfaith marriage with his Hindu wife, Usha Vance, noting that she supported his return to faith and they raise their children as Christians. While Usha remains a Hindu, Vance hopes she might one day embrace Christianity.