CNN's Piers Morgan asked NJ GOP Governor Chris Christie last night if he thinks homosexuality is a sin, and about his views on same-sex marriage.

Says Christie: "I've always believed that people are born with the previous disposition to be homosexual. So I think if someone is born that way it's very difficult to say that it's a sin."

Christie adds that he doesn't believe that gays should be given the freedom to marry: "I believe we can have civil unions that can help to give the same type of legal rights to same-sex couples that marriage gives them."

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Unfortunately, a commissioned study done in Christie's own state of New Jersey in 2008 showed that civil unions do not go far enough in providing equality to the state's citizens:

"The commission held three public hearings last year where the majority of the testimony came from people who were in civil unions and said they were still not being treated the way married couples are by government agencies, employers and others. For instance, the commission finds that many companies in the state that are self-insured, and therefore are regulated by federal rather than state law, refuse to provide health insurance to the partners of their employees. While employers in Massachusetts could legally do the same thing, most do not, according to the report. The commission also finds that many people in the state do not understand civil unions. 'Civil union status is not clear to the general public," the report says, "which creates a second-class status.' The commission's report says the misunderstanding of civil unions makes it more difficult for a child to grow up in New Jersey with gay parents, or to be gay themselves."

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