The event was billed as a celebration of free press and served as a fundraiser for the Committee to Protect Journalists, reportedly raising $200,000 for the organization.
"People who are in denial about the lives that are being lost; certain value judgments that are being placed upon the conduct of people who then get this disease," Christie said.
Bishop Karen Oliveto's civil marriage to another woman violates church law that bars clergy who are "self-avowed practicing homosexuals," the Judicial Council said.