Christie: ‘I’ve Used Birth Control And Not Just the Rhythm Method’ (VIDEO)

Republican presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie makes his wife Mary Pat laugh while speaking to supporters at a house party in Salem, N.H., Friday, July 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is a Catholic, but, as he told a crowd in New Hampshire, that hasn’t stopped him from using birth control.

“I’m a Catholic but I’ve used birth control, and not just the rhythm method,” the presidential candidate said in the town hall event.

The rhythm method is a form of “natural family planning” and is also called the calendar method that uses a woman’s ovulation cycle to predict when is best to have sex, according to the Mayo Clinic’s website.

“My church has a teaching against birth control. Does that make me an awful Catholic? Because I believe and practiced that function during part of my life? I don’t think so,” he said.

Watch Christie’s comment:

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  1. Oh, my …

  2. Thank you for ruining my morning with that visual.

  3. I/ve used birth control. It’s called “Standing so my wife can see me nekkid.”

  4. It’s kinda tough when the bed-springs bust and you are lying all akimbo and such…

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