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Let's talk church for a second.

Very sensitive and difficult for some.

Maybe, maybe not.

Are you familiar with kind of the statements made about almost sexuality 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago?

President Kimberl, boy K. Packer, Ernest Wilkinson, or, you know, Markey Peterson, that kind of stuff.

Many, you know, it's traditional and elious circles to look at our profits and our apostles as profit seers and revelators, as mouthpieces for God.

And some of the things that have been said in the past are interpreted by many to be kind of awful about gays and lesbians and homosexuality.

How do you guys reconcile that with your beliefs? Do you believe everything that they say? Do you feel like there's some other middle ground?

How do you, how do you look on those past statements?

Also, I'll speak for myself, when I was 14 or so, I was reading the miracle of forgiveness, which in many ways is a good book, but I got to this section on homosexuality, and I literally threw the book across the room.

I had a very visceral reaction to what, at what was said, and I was my first read through and, you know, and I did not.

It really upset me. And I remember, after that, being driven to a violin lesson, I played a violin by my dad, and that's where we would talk about things a lot, is on our way to violin lessons, and I was just like, Dad, I mean, have you read that?

Like, what the heck is, you know, this is a prophet of God, and he said these things, and I can't even remember what specifically was upsetting to me at the time, but his answer to that question was very helpful, and has been helpful for me since then.

He was just like, he is a prophet, you know, he was a prophet, because at the time he was no longer the prophet.

And he is also a human being who lives in a culture, and there is some necessity of deciphering between those two things, and not everything that is uttered by a prophet is prophetic.

And I remember at the time being like, but what? Because it was a very youthful mind. I wanted to be more black and white in my thinking, and so that was hard for me to digest at the time.

But subsequently, I have seen that reality born out, and I tend to subscribe to the notion that I have recently been hearing.

I can't even remember, I think it was in a recent conference where they were talking about kind of the idea of consensus.

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