The more a person can look beyond gender orientation, the happier and more fulfilling life is likely to be.
Lance B. WickmanThere's really no question that there is an anguish associated with the inability to marry in this life. We feel for someone that has that anguish. I feel for somebody that has that anguish. But it's not limited to someone who has same-gender attraction.
Lance B. WickmanThere's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.
Lance B. WickmanI certainly discourage people getting involved with any group or organization that foster living a homosexual lifestyle.
Lance B. WickmanMarriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means. That's what it means in the revelations. That's what it means in the secular law. You cannot have that marriage coexisting institutionally with something else called same-gender marriage. It simply is a definitional impossibility.
Lance B. WickmanIf you have some legally sanctioned relationship with the bundle of legal rights traditionally belonging to marriage and governing authority has slapped a label on it, whether it is civil union or domestic partnership or whatever label it's given, it is nonetheless tantamount to marriage.
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