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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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Someone should ask him if RINOs are “born that way,” or made that way by some kind of mental trauma.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are born sinners so I don’t see it as a contradiction.