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Apr. 2nd, 2019 08:39 pm"They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to.
"I'm in command. I could order this. But I'm not because, Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk. Risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote?"
Today the Church Board at First United Methodist Church of Omaha on which I presently serve, at the spurring of our pastor the party for whom the possible personal and professional consequences are the greatest, voted unanimously to adopt a new marriage policy that includes the performance of same-sex and other gender diverse marriage ceremonies in defiance of the vote in February of the global Methodist Conference.
"I'm in command. I could order this. But I'm not because, Doctor McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk. Risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. You may dissent without prejudice. Do I hear a negative vote?"
Today the Church Board at First United Methodist Church of Omaha on which I presently serve, at the spurring of our pastor the party for whom the possible personal and professional consequences are the greatest, voted unanimously to adopt a new marriage policy that includes the performance of same-sex and other gender diverse marriage ceremonies in defiance of the vote in February of the global Methodist Conference.
