Something that's been building up inside for Quite A Long Time now.

First off, I know that I'm by and large going to be preaching to the choir here, so to speak, because I know that the largest portion of the people I consider friends on LJ agree with me on this. But, in fact, I'm not meaning to preach per se, and those of you who disagree with me, this is not specifically pointed at you. This is something, as noted above, that has been building inside me for many months and even years and I finally am able to get it out, so it's going here, for lack of a better place.

The reason that I haven't spoken out on this subject much before, or many other subjects related to politics, religion, and the intersection thereof, is because by and large, the issues make me so mind-numbingly and mouth-frothingly mad that I can't come up with any coherent arguments. But for this one, I finally have, and so here it is. I so seldom rant on politics in my LJ, that I ask you to bear with me.

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