Chris Christie Gives His Opinion on Sin and Being Gay

Governor of New Jersey at a town hall in Hillsborough, NJ 3/2/11 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yesterday during an interview with Sean Hannity, Chris Christie stated that he did not think God would allow people to live a life in sin and he thought being gay was not a choice from his experience. I don't expect Christie to go very far in the primary and would not support him because he is left of everyone on every issue, but this issue got me thinking about those in my extended family that are gay. Here are some things that I noticed:

1. Their families were dysfunctional, possibly the most of all their cousins.
2. Their parents got divorced.
3. They came in contact with someone who was gay and was looking for a partner, much older in one case.
4. There was marijuana involved (for sure in one case).

Of course not everyone that experiences all four of these life situations ends up gay. And not every gay person has all of these experiences. I just thought it was interesting that their childhoods were both rough and then someone brought them into the lifestyle.

As far as God not allowing someone to live a life of sin, of course that is ridiculous, God allows all kinds of different people to live with all kinds of different sin. The weeds are not pulled until the final day, as the Bible states (Matthew 13:29). But Jesus forgave a life criminal hanging on the cross next to him right before he died, so there is salvation for everyone up until the end (Luke 23:32-43).

Making Sure Laws Are Targeted and Based On Reality

A CNN poll conducted in March of 2010Citation needed, days after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law found nearly 3 in 5 Americans were opposed to the legislationClarify. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Making sure that laws passed in congress and regulations developed in the federal government are based upon facts, have solutions that have already been tested in real government bodies, and do not harshly affect those not involved in the solution; should be the goal of government. But so many times laws are passed based upon theory with no real world success examples and affect a large portion of the population adversely instead of helping the small portion of the population they are supposed to help.

Examples include Obamacare, Gay Marriage, and Free Public Education for Illegals. The last two were decisions by courts after the people voted and decided they did not want the benefit for the small group requesting it.

Obamacare is an obvious example of a terrible law that was to target a small group of uninsured Americans but instead centralized the entire industry, ending everyone's private policy, based upon some theory that was never successfully implemented on a smaller scale. European countries may have tried similar programs but they were not successful; Care decreased every time and the price went up. The law should have been targeted to the 20 million citizens that wanted insurance and was unable to afford to purchase it. Of course this block was able to get care by emergency room visits, but that was the issue presented why they needed this program.

Gay marriage affects less that 1% of the population but now Christian organizations across the country are being attacked causing harm to 50% of the population to help 1% gain a benefit. Does that make any sense? Pass a law that gives the legal benefits of marriage administered by the state and leaves all the religious organizations to continue to operate under their faith the way the have for centuries. But progressives in government are never happy allowing private organizations to operate without strict regulation. Even though they have no experience running an organization or any understanding of the reasons the organization is run the way it is.

And free public education for illegal aliens is a benefit to individuals that should not even be in the country but takes money away from students that are citizens. Democrats love the expansion of the education system and an increase in teacher union membership, but the costs has been too high. The education system has been split as citizens that can get away from poor performing schools do, and those that are taking advantage of their status in the country or do not have the means have no choice. Competition leads to best practices which then leads to successful schools.

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