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CV NEWS FEED // During his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday, Vice President JD Vance explained what he termed the “fundamental tenet” of his Catholic faith.
While speaking to Republican strategist Mercedes Schlapp, the vice president also shared an inspiring message for young men and received a standing ovation for a viral anti-censorship speech he gave in Munich, Germany, last week.
“I believe the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith … is that the Son of God became man, He died, and then He raised himself from the dead,” Vance said at the annual conservative event, which this year was held in Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C.
“I think one lesson that flows from that is that we shouldn’t fear death,” he continued. “Of course, death is a very bad thing … but there are much more terrible things than just losing one’s life. And importantly, you could lose one’s soul.”
“And I think whether it’s fighting for the unborn or fighting for peace and security for our citizens,” he said, “I want us to be the kind of society where my kids can grow up to be virtuous young people … good young Christians.”
“That’s what our public policy is trying to do,” he said. “Creating the space where moms and dads can raise their children in their faith to become good young people who believe the things that I do.”
Also in the conversation, Vance said that he thinks “our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge, you should try to cast aside your family. You should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place.”
“My message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you’re competitive,” Vance said.
The Catholic vice president indicated that he thinks the current “cultural message … wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same.”
“We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men, and as young women, and we’re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that,” he said.
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Vance also received a standing ovation from CPAC’s crowd at the mention of his Feb. 14 Munich Security Conference speech.
“I think they really liked it,” Schlapp noted, referring to CPAC’s audience.
“I’m glad you guys liked it,” Vance said to the cheering crowd. “Not everybody liked it.”
After a prolonged period of applause and a standing ovation, Vance remarked: “I’ll take a standing ovation for a speech I already gave. Like two for the price of one.
In Munich, Vance had said: “In Britain, and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”
“I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe but from within my own country,” he added, “where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation – misinformation like, for example, the idea that coronavirus had likely … leaked from a laboratory in China.”
“Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth,” he told European leaders.
Readers can find out more about Vance’s Munich speech here.
