Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, a onetime opponent of same-sex “marriage,” said Thursday that his views on the issue have changed. The politician cited the Vatican's Dec. 18 declaration “Fiducia supplicans” as evidence that “even the Church is changing.”
– For me, it was a process that I had to go through in order to change the way I was brought up, both from a family perspective and what my parents taught me and felt, and also from a religious perspective and what my church taught me to believe. Christie said during an event in Epping, New Hampshire.
– Society has changed, and what people now accept in our country is different from what I grew up with. I don't care anymore. “I think I'm finally convinced,” said the former New Jersey governor.
Christie served in this position from January 2010 to January 2018. When running for governor in 2009, he supported civil unions in New Jersey, but said he would veto any bill legalizing same-sex “marriage.” In 2015, the politician stated that, in his opinion, individual states should decide to legalize this type of unions.
A controversial statement
The uproar was caused by the document “Fiducia supplicans” published at the end of December. A huge controversy in the Catholic world.
The declaration states that priests can “spontaneously” bless “irregular” and homosexual couples in certain non-liturgical situations. He also insists that such a “blessing” in no way “officially confirms their status” or changes the Church's doctrinal teaching on sexuality and marriage.
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