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Colorado passes bill for Cabrini Day to replace Columbus Day
UPI ^ | March 10, 2020 | By Sommer Brokaw

Posted on 03/11/2020 6:32:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Colorado lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday to replace Columbus Day with a new state holiday honoring Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini on the first Monday in October.

Cabrini Day is believed to be the first paid state holiday to recognize a woman anywhere in the country, the Denver Post reported. It now needs the governor's signature to become law, and he is not expected to oppose it.

Honoring Cabrini, an Italian American and patron saint of immigrants, was a compromise with Italian Americans, who take pride in the Italian explorer, lead bill sponsor Adrienne Benavidez said.

Benavidez has been trying for years to abolish Columbus Day and calls it "a festering sore."

"The continuation of a racist holiday hurts people, and this says that we as a state no longer want to be party to that," she said.

Many House and Senate Republicans said the bill was a rewrite of history and all of them opposed the bill.

Cabrini came to Colorado in 1902 and opened the Queen of Heaven Orphanage for girls in north Denver a few years later. In 1909, she was naturalized as a U.S. citizen and she negotiated the purchase of a rural property to be used as a summer camp for girls at the orphanage.

"The land upon which Cabrini established her orphanage and camp is the traditional territory and homeland to the Cheyenne, Arapaho and Ute indigenous nations," the bill's text read. "Those indigenous peoples, and all indigenous peoples, have a special, sacred relationship with water, similar to that of Cabrini."

Throughout the United States and South and Central America, Cabrini founded 67 institutions, including schools, hospitals and orphanages, in her lifetime.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: cabrini; colorado; columbus; culturewar; francesxaviercabrini; history; woke
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To: xkaydet65

Never heard of her


21 posted on 03/11/2020 7:25:01 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Liz

Probably more to honor of Cabrini Green. Dems want us all in the Projects.


22 posted on 03/11/2020 7:30:17 AM PDT by Starcitizen (American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
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To: bagman
Why would anyone not support this change?

Because she legally immigrated to the United States; she was a deeply religious Christian; as a Catholic nun, she was or would have been anti-abortion; she's Caucasian; and she probably wasn't a lesbian or a man who likes to dress like a woman. Quite frankly, I am shocked that the libtards in Colorado went for this.

23 posted on 03/11/2020 7:45:05 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If I lived in Colorado, I would be starting a new tradition: The celebration of Columbus Day with outdoor decorations and Columbus Day cards and gifts.


24 posted on 03/11/2020 7:47:40 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I died of coronavirus and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. And a coffin.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’m guessing that Next Denver will remove her shrine and build a homeless shelter on the desirable location.


25 posted on 03/11/2020 7:49:08 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: pepsi_junkie

We have so many days and “months” that they pretty much mean nothing. America is watered down and we will never make everyone happy.


26 posted on 03/11/2020 8:07:52 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

People in CO do the dumbest things.


27 posted on 03/11/2020 8:17:41 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: shanover
Columbus day was different than, say, St Patrick's day. Columbus day had been an actual national holiday. Closed businesses, government, etc. Over the past 30 years a lot of that has eroded as places chose to stay open (I think that started with MLK day, nobody really wanted a holiday in the middle of January so they just ignored it, and then that extended to other less holidays).

I really don't mind if there is a day set aside to celebrate Mother Cabrini. Go for it. But eventually someone will come for her and say 'she was Catholic and gays hate Catholics for some reason so her holiday is offensive'. Eventually we'll only have a day celebrating this guy:


28 posted on 03/11/2020 8:18:43 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Adrienne Benavidez sounds like a racist.


29 posted on 03/11/2020 8:19:24 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
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To: Bishop_Malachi

I had thought that the sarcasm was evident.


30 posted on 03/11/2020 8:28:26 AM PDT by bagman
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To: Theodore R.
"People in CO do the dumbest things." That is because we are infested with calitards. That and, like many states (VA, NY) the yard cities with 10% of the land have the most yard voters. KCCP (Kолорадо Советская Социалистическая Республика) aka Commierado.
31 posted on 03/11/2020 8:31:29 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: bagman

“Mother Cabrini’s impact on world history is at least as great as Columbus’s. Why would anyone not support this change?”

I have never heard of the woman. There are 365 days in a year, why not pick one not used in this fashion?

Oh, because they want to erase our history. Sure.


32 posted on 03/11/2020 8:58:10 AM PDT by Tomato lover (Faith can survive without freedom. But, freedom cannot survive without faith. Come quickly, Jesus)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

An incremental step to be later replaced.


33 posted on 03/11/2020 9:45:35 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: bagman

Let me tell you a true fact: I, and many others just like me, have never heard of Ms. Cabrini before this day. So, how could she be so earth shaken important?


34 posted on 03/11/2020 12:12:49 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: bagman
Uhhh....never heard of Mother Cabrini.

I have heard of Columbus................

35 posted on 03/11/2020 12:15:08 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: GingisK

Might your cogent observation regarding your knowledge of Mother Cabrini be an indication of her actual influence on world history?

Surely, the ridiculousness of my argument was an indication of its implausibility.

(And yes, I’ll quit calling you Shirley.)


36 posted on 03/11/2020 1:13:06 PM PDT by bagman
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To: bagman

They could always celebrate her during Kwanzaa.


37 posted on 03/11/2020 1:31:43 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Or they could leave the celebration of her to the Roman Catholic Church.

If I lived in Colorado, I might well challenge creation of Cabrini Day on Church Establishment grounds.


38 posted on 03/11/2020 1:49:06 PM PDT by bagman
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