Gender Quotes - Page 9

• We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as we urge persons with heterosexual attractions to refrain from acting upon them until they have the opportunity for a marriage recognized by God as well as by the law of the land. That is the way to happiness and eternal life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Opportunity, Law, Land

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• We live in a society which is so saturated with sexuality that it perhaps is more troublesome now, because of that fact, for a person to look beyond their gender orientation to other aspects of who they are.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Looks, Facts, Sexuality

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• There'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. Wickman

  Denial, Characteristics, Persons

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• 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.

  Lance B. Wickman

  What Matters, Important, Facts

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• Same-gender attraction did not exist in the pre-earth life and neither will it exist in the next life. It is a circumstance that for whatever reason or reasons seems to apply right now in mortality, in this nano-second of our eternal existence.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Earth Life, Next, Reason

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• 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.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Struggle, Forever, Looks

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• 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.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Inability, This Life, Feels

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

  Lance B. Wickman

  Eye, Lord

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• This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of marriage may be the ultimate sophistry of those advocating same-gender marriage.

  Lance B. Wickman

  House, May, Sophistry

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• 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.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Mean, Men, Law

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• 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.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Numbers, Rights, Adoption

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• It's not the Church that has made the issue of marriage a matter of federal law. Those who are vigorously advocating for something called same-gender marriage have essentially put that potato on the fork. They're the ones who have created a situation whereby the law of the land, one way or the other, is going to address this issue of marriage. This is not a situation where the Church has elected to take the matter into the legal arena or into the political arena. It's already there.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Land, Issues, Law

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• 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.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Trying, Horizon, Strive

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• If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Children, Compassion, People

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

  Lance B. Wickman

  Life Is Like, Looks, Fulfilling

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• I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.

  Alan Moore

  Character, Race, Age

  "Boy from the boroughs". Interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, www.3ammagazine.com. March 17, 2011.

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• America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.

  Van Jones

  America, Issues, Islam

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• One of the days we unpack finding out how your kids are wired, what kind of intelligence has God given them, how do they give and receive love, what the passions of their life, how does their birth order and their gender affect them because all of those things are part of the tapestry that God is weaving together to use each of our children for His glory.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Children, Passion, Kids

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even the people who are outwardly religious tend to subscribe to gender equality, the importance of open-mindedness, all that stuff. My family is generally nonprescriptive.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Mother, Religious, Dad

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Voice, Has Beens

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.

  Stephen Marche

  Suicide, Attitude, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's the definition of manliness - that it's not a performance; it's being yourself, authentic. Whereas women have understood gender as performance. Men have not yet made that quantum leap, or rather they're making it in many ways, they're not thinking about it.

  Stephen Marche

  Being Yourself, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay to wear lipstick and eyeliner. They're not getting to the question at hand, which is, "What does it mean to be a man when the traditional values of masculinity are eroding incredibly rapidly?'

  Stephen Marche

  Sports, Mean, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Way, Problem

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and incredible confusion around gender norms that's only going to accelerate.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Confusion, Losing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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