Brown University changes Columbus Day

Ski,  You are barking up the wrong tree trying to talk sense here.  The internet is cool. ;D  Here is a quote from yvettegr I found on another site in refernce to gay marriage:

    As to marriage. The religious right in the last 15-20 years has been saying that traditionally marriage was always a union between a man and a woman. This is completely untrue. Unfortunately, you, the media, and ordinary folk have bought into this. Historically the word marriage and marry has meant to bind something together. Sailors marry rope together, for example. The Catholic Church has many marriage ceremonies to sanctify different types of unions. Nuns marry Jesus in a marriage ceremony. The consecration of a Catholic Priest is nothing more than a marriage ceremony between the Catholic priest and the Mother Church. In medieval times the Catholic Church actually had a marriage type ritual that two men could engage in if they wanted to sanctify their friendship and put it on a higher spiritual plane.     So, anytime you hear someone say that marriage has been traditionally between a man and a woman, dispute it. There is no historical data to support that statement.     Keep up the good work with your column. I read it religiously. 🙂 Sincerely, Heilan Yvette Grimes

 This is the link: reply to meaningless rant  The reply is about 1/3 down the page.  She is hopelessly liberal and will refuse to believe or cast aspersion on any evidence you provide to dispute her claims.  That is if she even deigns to respond to such obvious oppressors like us.I would like to know the source of the supposed medieval Catholic male bonding ritual.  She is also wrong in her claims that nuns and priests marry the church, they symbolically wed God.Rant beginsI am rapidly running out of patience with the leftist types that don't want to change America, they want to remake it to fit their ideals.  I have started to become very blunt and direct with responses to their views.  I will call their idiocy like I see it.  They don't hesitate to heap vile calumny and condemnation on those that disagree with them They are winning the culture battle not on the merits of their ideals but on the sheer volume and multiplication of their lies and falsehoods in combination with their attacks on conservative traditional values.  They need to be met with the same vehemence, but traditionalists must only use the truth, which scares liberals.  They are like rats or cockroaches, when the light is shined upon them they scurry for cover.  Rant ends

I can't wait for the first URI vs Brown football game!!  I expect tons of HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY signs on the URI side.  No wonder we chanted "What's the color of crap? (although we used a more explicitive word) BROWN"  at every football game.

Now that is Funny. ;D ;D ;D

rather than go back through the whole Who Really Discovered America thread we can save lots of rehashing and quotes within quotes to say that C2 was the one that mattered because something came of it… it drove history. Those folks previous (and the record indicates there were some and might have been more), like Brown, drooped the ball.  ;D

(and in all actuality, was it really about discovering, or was it more about conquering a new land?  ;D)

In a nutshell, both. The biggest thing is the connection that tied the new and old world together... both sides gained from the so-called Columbian Exchange neither would have done as well insolation. It wasn't all positive... the connection started Spain on a path that would ultimately drop them to a lowere standing among nations but that's another story.