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That still is taken from the Mirror, Mirror episode of Star Trek, when a transporter accident causes Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura to trade places with their evil twins on the Imperial Star Ship Enterprise. The episode contains this classic exchange between (evil) Spock and (“good”) Kirk:

(Spock): Terror must be maintained, or the empire is doomed. It is the logic of history.

(Kirk): Conquest is easy. Control is not. We may have bitten off more than we can chew!

I watched this episode at the CBS Television website last night after reading this article on Common Dreams by William Astore, in which he highlights the defining traits of life on the “evil” Enterprise:

Let’s recap: Alien cultures shocked, awed, and bludgeoned into submission in order to gain control over scarce energy resources; torture used liberally to extract information; precision weapons capable of decapitating the enemy and controlled from a distance via the push of a button.

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The Iowa Supreme Court:

In this case, we must decide if our state statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the Iowa Constitution, as the district court ruled. On our review, we hold the Iowa marriage statute violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution. Therefore, we affirm the decision of the district court.

It’s not just the “librul-elite” on the decadent coasts anymore. Now it’s the “real” Americans in the “heartland,” too, who believe that adults should be able to marry the person they love.

The list of organizations and individuals that filed briefs of amicus curiae is interesting, as it’s basically a list of allies and opponents. The list of allies is much longer, and includes the usual suspects (Freedom to Marry coalition, MassEquality, P-FLAG, and so on), but it also includes The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, The National Black Justice Coalition, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Immigrants’ Rights Program of the American Friends Service Committee, the National Association of Social Workers, the Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic, and the American Psychological Association.

You can read the whole opinion or just the court summary (PDFs) if you like.