It is simultaneously one of the most ridiculous and important cultural and political conflicts developing in the western world right now, having rapidly infected the UK polity with Republican American brain-worms, with dozens of moves and counter-moves now being made every week by the bitterly divided combatants. To be sure, one side is clearly more wrong than the other, but which side shall prevail? Who is more righteous? Who is better armed, with facts and arguments? Who has the support of the law, and who should have it? What should bystanders do? What has actually happened, and why? It's a messy issue in great need of clarity—about the facts, if nothing else.