I've never heard that about the Basque before, but the medieval Irish had legends about some of their ancestors finding  a fanciful land to the west where the "black-headed people" lived. 

Larry Koler: Many people suspect an African connection when they see these:

I was getting a Polynesian feel from the bottom picture in flownover's (#4), the big guy in #13, and your second head can be seen that way as well.  

I know there is a book a guy I was working next to once had about the theory that Africans were in the Americas long before. 

ironic, huh? the Victorian thing was about propriety, our current culture's thing is about a new type of twisted propriety -- political correctness.  

your comment also reminds me of a class i had in which we read gay deconstructionist Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality, a chapter of which is called "We are all Victorians now." 

a good example of how something can be technically true and total nonsense at the same time. 

I just finished season 3 of White Collar, in which there is an episode where one character tries to convince the other that they should sell a Degas painting and fly away, saying they could be gone before the authorities could say "Degas away with it."  

would you be willing to listen?

a bigot is a person intolerantly clinging to prejudices, especially one who treats members of a group with hatred or intolerance. (Merriam-Webster)

This, as usually used, involves irrationality and ignorance in the forming of opinions/prejudices, which anybody is capable of doing, (yes, even gay people). It, however, should not be used as a label to ostracize anyone simply for not sharing one's views about particular lifestyles etc.,  no matter how well thought-out their view may actually be or how good their intentions may be.   

conservatives should know better than to assume there are no problems with something involving "diversity" because we are not hearing about any. 

exactly. no aspect of American life shall be untouched by the gay agenda. 

Why has this horrible woman (I feel comfortable making that declaration) brainwashed her seven-year-old son with identity politics to the point that he is made to feel uncomfortable wanting to join the Boy Scouts?

Because I don't for a moment believe it was his decision, or that those are anything other than his mother's words when he allegedly says that the Boy Scouts' decision "wasn't good enough" because it didn't allow gay adult leaders.

Because "tolerance" * is her religion.

* - of things she likes 

The problem may be that it is too unPC to even admit that something is a negative repercussion. Allowing an open homosexual to shower, dress, and bunk with a room full of the sex he is attracted to should be obvious enough. 

actually Muhammad didn't give them the Koran, it was compiled after his death, first by his father-in-law, the first caliph. Muhammad united the Arabs who wanted to follow him and his new religion, made war on the rest, who wanted to stick to Christianity or polytheism. 

We don't know the particular circumstances but here's a shot in the dark.  In our shaming, shunning, hating, homophobic culture at the time she married she was terrified of admitting the truth -- that she was gay -- and did everything possible to avoid exposure and live up to expectations, up to and including getting married.  I don't know if that's her story or not, but up until no more than a generation ago it was a very common one.  I know a number of broken marriages that ended in peoples 40s or 50s that followed that pattern.  I hope and expect that it's not happening nearly as much with today's 20 somethings who, in many places in America today, have more realistic options to live honestly.

I anticipated your response would be along these lines, but she must have been married in the late 90s (seeing as her oldest child is 13). Or was that still too much of a "shaming, shunning, hating, homophobic time" for her to have followed her true desires?  

yes. 

because to not believe is to deny.

i guess we're supposed to feel sorry for the women. i don't. i feel sorry for the children whose home was broken by a mother who left their father for another woman, and for the man who thought he married a woman who loved him and wanted to have kids with him. 

for what reason did she marry him in the first place?

The main problem is that he makes it sound as if Christ has already redeemed everybody. Not that Christ can.