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Lance B. Wickman Biography

Lance Bradley Wickman (born November 11, 1940) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1994 and is the current general counsel of the LDS Church. In 2010, he became an emeritus general authority.

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The worst possible thing for any of us - no matter what our temptations, no matter what our mortal inclinations may be - is to become fixated with them, to dwell on them. When we do that, not only do we deny the other things that comprise us, but experience teaches that there will be an increased likelihood that eventually we will simply succumb to the inclination.

Deny, Inclinations, Matter, May, Possible, Temptation

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.

Available, Church, Covenant, Life, Missionary, Things

There's an old maxim which is really true for every parent and that is, 'You haven't failed until you quit trying. ' I think that means both in terms of taking appropriate opportunities to teach one's children the right way, but at all times making sure they know that over all things you'll love them.

Appropriate, Children, Mean, Parent, Quit, Thinking

I certainly discourage people getting involved with any group or organization that foster living a homosexual lifestyle.

Discourage, Groups, Living, Organization, People

Ultimately, the wisest course for anybody who's afflicted with same-gender attraction is to strive to extend one's horizon beyond just one's sexual orientation, one's gender orientation, and to try to see the whole person.

Gender, Horizon, Orientation, Strive, Trying, Wisest

It is comparing apples and oranges to refer to the love that the Savior expressed for all mankind, for every person, for every man and woman and child, with the doctrine related to marriage.

Apples, Children, Doctrine, Men, Oranges

Marriage 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.

Impossibility, Law, Mean, Men, Revelations, Sanctioned

We really are immortal in the sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.

Adversaries, Death, Giving, Jesus, Meet, Spiritual

There are numbers of different types of partnerships or pairings that may exist in society that aren't same-gender sexual relationships that provide for some right that we have no objection to. All that said. . . there may be on occasion some specific rights that we would be concerned about being granted to those in a same-gender relationship. Adoption is one that comes to mind, simply because that is a right which has been historically, doctrinally associated so closely with marriage and family.

Adoption, Marriage, Numbers, Partnerships, Rights, Types

One way to read the Book of Mormon is as a book of encounters between fathers and sons. Some of those encounters were very positive and reinforcing on the part of the father of a son. Some were occasions where a father had to tell his son or his sons that the path that they were following was incorrect before the Lord.

Book, Father, Part, Son, Way

Either there is marriage as it is now defined and as defined by the Lord, or there is what could thus be described as genderless marriage. The latter is abhorrent to God, who, as we've been discussing, Himself described what marriage is - between a man and a woman.

Abhorrent, Described, Latter, Lord, Marriage, Men

The more a person can look beyond gender orientation, the happier and more fulfilling life is likely to be.

Fulfilling, Gender, Life Is Like, Looks, Orientation, Person

There'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.

Anguish, Gender, Inability, Marry, This Life

[Genderless marriage] is contrary to God's law, to revealed Word. Scripture, ancient and modern, could not be clearer on the definition that the Lord and His agents have given to marriage down through the dispensations.

Agents, Contrary, Definitions, Genderless, Law, Marriage

Children deserve to be reared in a home with a father and a mother.

Children, Deserve, Father, Home, Mother, Reared

The good news for somebody who is struggling with same-gender attraction is this: It is that 'I'm not stuck with it forever. ' It's just now. Admittedly, for each one of us, it's hard to look beyond the 'now' sometimes. But nonetheless, if you see mortality as now, it's only during this season.

Forever, Good, Looks, Season, Struggle, Stuck

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

Characteristic, Characteristics, Denial, Gender, Person

What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do. '

Agency, Matters, Recognition, What Matters

There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.

Eye, Eyes, Gender, Lord, Marriage, Thing

It really is true the Lord's way is to love the sinner while condemning the sin. That is to say we continue to open our homes and our hearts and our arms to our children, but that need not be with approval of their lifestyle. Neither does it mean we need to be constantly telling them that their lifestyle is inappropriate. An even bigger error is now to become defensive of the child, because that neither helps the child nor helps the parent. That course of action, which experience teaches, is almost certainly to lead both away from the Lord's way.

Arms, Children, Experience, Home, Mean, Telling

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