"Q: ...another related question that comes up is the statements in the King Follett discourse by the Prophet, about that, God the Father was once a man as we were. This is something that Christian writers are always addressing. Is this the teaching of the church today, that God the Father was once a man like we are?
Hinckley: I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it. I haven't heard it discussed for a long time in public discourse. I don't know. I don't know all the circumstances under which that statement was made. I understand the philosophical background behind it. But I don't know a lot about it and I don't know that others know a lot about it." --Transcript from interview by David van Biema, reported in “Kingdom Come,” Time Magazine, 4 August 1997, p. 56"
But less than three years earlier:
"On the other hand, the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon and emphasized by President Lorenzo Snow. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become! Our enemies have criticized us for believing in this." --Gordon B. Hinckley, Report of the 164th Semiannual General Conference, Ensign, "Don't Drop the Ball" Nov. 1994, p. 46.
At least Monson has the distinction of not being as big a doofus as Hinckley!