Posted on 06/15/2011 11:50:43 PM PDT by fabrizio
LIVINGSTON, New Jersey, June 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - One of America’s top conservative personalities distanced himself from his Catholic faith’s teachings on homosexuality, saying that he believes homosexuals are “born that way” and therefore it is “very difficult” to call homosexuality sinful.
CNN’s Piers Morgan asked Republican New Jersey governor Chris Christie in an interview that aired Tuesday night: “Is homosexuality a sin?”
“Well my religion says it’s a sin. I mean I think - but for me? I don’t - I’ve always believed that people are born with the predisposition to be homosexual, and so I think if someone is born that way, it’s very difficult to say then that that’s a sin,” said Christie. “But I understand that my Church says that, but for me personally, I don’t look upon someone who’s homosexual as a sinner.”
The Republican governor, who has come into national favor for his no-nonsense approach to fiscal responsibility and strong pro-life views, opposes same-sex “marriage” but is a proponent of homosexual civil unions.
“I think we can have civil unions that can help to give the same type of legal rights to same sex couples that marriage gives them,” he told Morgan.
OTOH, it is entirely possible that Christie simply ignores these basic distinctions given the disastrous conditions of Catholic education and formation in most dioceses of the last few decades. He should still be able to think logically though.
I think Ann Coulter falls a bit into the Hugh Hewitt trap where they focus on winning to the point of abandoning principles (and principled people).
The idea that a more squishy centrist is necessarily more electable is sadly pervasive
Why not let gays marry? Cities should charge them 10X the amount for hetero marriage license and that way cities can get out of the financial mess they are in!
I lived in New Jersey for a year. In the old days the place was known as a toxic waste dump. Then it went down hill to a Leftist waste dump.
He also lacks political judgment for even answering that question. Sin? Is he a Cardinal or is that part of the New Jersey Code?
Well Governor who are you to second guess God?
Pederasts are probably born that way too. Does that mean that raping a child is not a sin if you can talk the child in to consenting to doing it willingly?
Sorry but all of us are subject to the temptations of sin. We must all fight against those temptations.
If the gay activist can not accept the teachings of the Church they are well come to worship elsewhere that is one of the great freedoms we have in this country. I will not surrender that right to the gay agenda. We will not bow to the false god of political correctness.
“I will not surrender that right to the gay agenda.”
You’ve already surrendered one battle when you caved in on calling them “gay.”
They are people who need treatment for same-sex attraction disorder, or, for short, sodomites.
“I’ve always believed that people are born with the predisposition to be homosexual”
Yeah, and my kids believed in Santa Claus when they were very young.
Grow up and grow a pair.
“Amazingly dull.”
The Republicans have long been known as “The Stupid Party.” They should now be known as “The Stupid, Cowardly, Rubber-Chicken-Eating, Surrender-Sissy Party.”
fabrizio: “He (Christie) should still be able to think logically though.”
Perhaps he thinks it’s logical to oppose the church and say homosexuality is OK in order to be elected?
Homosexuals COULD have been ‘born that way’. I think it’s a mental illness.
No, Ann Coulter is very enamored with CC and quite, repeatedly, outspoken about it. It’s just strange, considering these his remarks on homosexuality as well as appointing a Muslim judge and supporting the Ground Zero Mosque.
They weren’t born that way. The Bible calls it “un-natural” ...... I personally think it’s an oppressive spirit which explains the “I can’t help it” arguement.
People engage in beastiality too, doesn’t mean there’s a gene that makes them that way. IMO
It’s either a mental illness, or a result of a possession by a demon of the opposite sex, which I suppose could also be seen as a type of mental illness.
-Acting on the tendency, however, is indeed sinful, and can never be condoned.”
That’s right. It’s wrong to give in to sinful temptations.
If a heterosexual is tempted to cheat on their spouse, they too, would have to resist that temptation.
What the hell are we doing crying out every five minutes to draft this guy. We already have Romney for this crap. Taking on the union is admirable, but that's not the only issue.
Perfectly said. There is a genetic component to a tendency to adultery also. Likewise to anger that leads to hate that leads to murderous thoughts. That doesn’t remove the sinful nature of the act of committing adultery or of murder (whether in the heart or in the world).
Saying “to me, this activity is not a sin,” is itself the worst kind of sin in that the speaker sets themselves up as equal to God in declaring that their moral “truth” is of more worth than God’s. That in itself, as Ray Comfort is fond of saying, is a violation of both the first and second commandments.
Finally, there is still no evidence for the “born that way” argument. I’m tired of listening to people pontificate on this as if it were fact just because they wish it were so.
“What the hell are we doing crying out every five minutes to draft this guy.”
Ditto.
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