 During the 2004 presidential election he said that politicians who support legal abortion should be denied Holy Communion unless they publicly recant their views.In 2009 he endorsed a bill opposing gay marriage.In 2013 Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests criticized Jugis and Bishop Michael Francis Burbidge for not warning families in their diocese about Raymond P. Melville, a former Catholic priest accused of sexual abuse in Maine and in Maryland, who had moved to North Carolina.