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.

Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.

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

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

What happens in somebody's house down the street does in very deed have an effect on what happens in my house and how it's treated.

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

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

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

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.

Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.

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.'

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.

When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.

He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye. He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye.

Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.