Faith and Homosexuality

Pierce Morgan recently asked both Mitt Romney and Chris Christie about the role of faith in their lives in the context of homosexuality.  Specifically, he asked both whether they thought homosexuality was a sin.  Let’s compare both sets of answers.

Now Morgan worded the question differently with each person and, with Romney, framed it specifically in the context of Mormonism.  But I like Chris Christie’s answer better, even though I support gay marriage all the way.  Maybe it’s because Christie didn’t answer it like a presidential candidate, which he’s not (for now), and Romney clearly did.  Christie came off as a guy who actually can isolate certain religious doctrines with which he disagrees, whereas Romney’s answer was indicative of a guy who can, at most, separate religious doctrine only from the oval office.  I think Romney’s position is the bare minimum we should (and, perhaps, the bare minimum we constitutionally can) expect from our presidents.  Christie seems to give us a bit more in the secular department.