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Video: New Jersey Gov. Christie cornered on homosexual views
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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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catholic; christie; gaystpo; homofascists; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; perverts; rino; sodomhusseinobama
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To: fabrizio

He’s permanently disqualified himself. Period. No waffling on this by saying his personal belief is one he won’t allow to affect his potential for a job. No matter what good qualities he has, this is a complete, utter show-stopper. Governor Christie’s succumbing to the politically correct spew here tells me that he is perhaps more fit to listen to Lady Gaga than to seriously contend for a larger role in his country.


21 posted on 06/16/2011 2:36:38 AM PDT by sayuncledave (A cruce salus)
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To: KoRn

I read once where over 90 percent of homosexual men have had some sort of emotional trauma during their childhood. Nobody is born gay. To believe that is to believe that God makes mistakes.

Christie is wrong on this one.


22 posted on 06/16/2011 2:40:50 AM PDT by ObamaMustGo2012 (Obama Must Go In 2012)
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To: re_nortex

Double AMEN!


23 posted on 06/16/2011 3:26:41 AM PDT by mckenzie7 (Democrats = Trough Sloppers!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Much of NJ is absolutely beautiful, with miles of beach, rural countryside and - where I own a home - hundreds of farms dedicated to raising the country’s thoroughbred horses. The toxic dump you are referring to is the Rahway-Newark part of the state. That is where all the industry is. That’s actually a good thing.

Christie’s shown himself a creep by refusing to condemn the Ground Zero Mosque.


24 posted on 06/16/2011 4:21:44 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (FR haters of Sarah Palin are wearing me out)
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To: fabrizio
GODless... maybe he is a NJ conservative... but he is a kennedy to us in Mississippi.

LLS

25 posted on 06/16/2011 4:43:46 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES... a Conservative subsidiary of Reagan's party)
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To: fabrizio

Someone should ask him if RINOs are “born that way,” or made that way by some kind of mental trauma.


26 posted on 06/16/2011 4:48:52 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: fabrizio

If he defies and rejects the Catholic Church’s teachings, in what way is it still “his” church? The RCC is not a country club; it’s an organization which speaks with authority on issues of doctrine.


27 posted on 06/16/2011 4:51:00 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: fabrizio

Christie’s voiced opinion, that “born that way” = “not sinful” is, of course, absurd.

Sociopaths and alcoholics are “born that way”, but prisons and hospitals are full of them, nonetheless.

However, it is true that the vast majority of Americans believe it too, including, apparently, a majority of Catholics. Clarity on homosexual issues is, in our day, poison for an electoral politician.


28 posted on 06/16/2011 4:53:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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To: ObamaMustGo2012
Nobody is born gay. To believe that is to believe that God makes mistakes.

Well, I don't believe that God makes mistakes, but if YOU never run into something that seems like God's mistake TO YOUR HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, then you lead a very sheltered life.

I've been a doctor for thirty-five years, and let me assure you, a lot of the things He does are very difficult to understand.

29 posted on 06/16/2011 4:56:33 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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To: Jim Noble

born gay = birth defect


30 posted on 06/16/2011 4:58:55 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: fabrizio
"he believes homosexuals are “born that way” and therefore it is “very difficult” to call homosexuality sinful."

Wow, does this guy have a clue about Biblical Christianity? We are ALL "born that way" with a sinful nature. It's called original sin. There are "none good..not one". This is why we need a Savior. Yet we all have a choice as to whether we act on our innate sinful desires. For some the strongest temptation may be homosexual sex, for some drunkeness or pedophilia or fornication (a biblical term which includes homosexual behavior by the way). It's a shame so many who call themselves Christian have no idea what the Bible teaches.

31 posted on 06/16/2011 4:59:57 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Mount Athos

More taxes and higher fees for people. You must be a silly libertarian.


32 posted on 06/16/2011 5:02:02 AM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: fabrizio

I don’t like Ann Coulter...

Her choice in men is pretty deficient.

The last thing I want is someone thinking they can tell me how to vote because of their cult of personality.


33 posted on 06/16/2011 5:03:55 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
Why not let gays marry?

Because babies do not come out of rectums.

34 posted on 06/16/2011 5:06:31 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: dsc

yep.


35 posted on 06/16/2011 5:07:30 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: dsc

I appreciate your stream of pejoratives. Strong without cussing.


36 posted on 06/16/2011 5:10:22 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: llandres

She supported Mitt in 08.


37 posted on 06/16/2011 5:11:49 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Pontiac
Well Governor who are you to second guess God?

That is exactly their defense - reject God as not being as intelligent as they are on any issue that interferes with their lifestyle choice.

Homosexuality, Killing unborn children, etc....

38 posted on 06/16/2011 5:12:26 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/West 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: fabrizio
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,”

To many "born again-ers", this must rattle their sensibilities. How then, does "I'm not runnin'" Christie handle "original sin"????

OOOOooooo.....thorny to be sure!

Moreover, one simply cannot believe that "I'm not runnin'" Christie had not - a long time ago - prepared a sound and reasonable answer to just such a question.

39 posted on 06/16/2011 5:14:02 AM PDT by Logic n' Reason (The stain must be ERADICATED....NOW!!)
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To: fabrizio

We are born sinners so I don’t see it as a contradiction.


40 posted on 06/16/2011 5:26:31 AM PDT by MNDude (so that's what they meant by Carter's second term)
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