Our Lady of Guadalupe for the Twenty Dollar Bill

There is presently discussion about putting a lady on the American $20 Bill.

Why not the greatest Lady of America, on all accounts?: Our Lady of Guadalupe!

Who is the greatest woman of our nation? Who is the greatest woman of America? Well, there is only one who comes to mind!

If we honor Columbus who sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered America we do well to remember her who adopted all Americans as her children. She is a Native American, the same race as the people who walked these lands thousands of years before any European even knew the land was here, a race that is still here revering her in the hundreds of millions, honorable, hardworking religious family people. And, yet, she is also of European extraction. She mixed as are many Americans today, she is both light and dark! She shows no prejudice.

She is a model of virginity and a model of motherhood and spousal fidelity.

Some might object that she is not American. That would be an anachronism for she first came here when this land was one land, a century before the English colonies.

Others might say that she is not real. She is at least as real as the statue of liberty which should perhaps be removed on the same reasoning! There is no denying the historical reality of the devotion to her, even if the incredulous wish to contest her substance. She is part of every part of America more than any other woman for five hundred years and growing every day even to our own!; perhaps with a special claim to USA, with people from every land of America arriving daily, and from every other people and land of the globe (she being the Mother and Empress also of the entire universe!).

Still others might claim that this would be an unlawful sanction of religion by the state. Rubbish! Does anyone think that present day secular Mexico sanctioned religion when it put the standard of Our Lady of Guadalupe on it's bicentennial 200 Pesos Bill in 2010? Don't worry, no one in his right mind could possibly think that the United States Government is presently confessing, promoting or otherwise supporting the Catholic faith. If anything, the opposite impression is almost consistently given. Besides, the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Jew and is revered as the mother of Jesus by Islam, and being the Mother of Christ, cannot possibly present a real offense even to our beloved Protestant separated brethren in the one true Faith! She, in fact, is the most ecumenical Lady ever. Rather, to exclude her from the contest would be unconstitutional, an unlawful anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Islam bias of the government weighing in against religion!

The Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Patroness of America, should grace our bills and all of our affairs and we should not be biased against her, for she has as much right as any woman in our history of which she is surely and continues to be a central and vital part! More than all others!