Pew Research } 1/2 Hispanics Favor Gay Marriage
This is an amazing change from just the past 2008-10 election periods. The reasons? There are a few but in my opinion (adamfoxie*) I believe that the electronic mediums and the work being done by volunteers, workers and everyday people at the grass roots levels have introduced knowledge to the minds of Latinos and fairness in their heart . The reason Im picking latinos is because of their steady growth in the US and because they tend to be very religious, thus having the worse opinion of us LGTB. According to the indicators, that is changing. This can also have a big impact on the coming presidential and congress elections, but only if they go out and vote. Their record of voting is similar to the younger voter. Full of dissatisfaction and complaining about the system but doing little to change their lives thru the system we have, which is change thru the people we put in power. They lied, well we need to be patient and replace them. Members for the House of representatives election is every two years. We just need to separate wether they lied or the situation changed and the politician had to take a different approach, We elect, we most take responsibility. I think the latinos are learning that, which is good advise for all voters latinos or not, Well lets see the ‘Pew’ research:
Adam Gonzalez, Publisher
About half of Hispanic Catholics favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally (54%), while 31% of Latino Catholics oppose same-sex marriage. About seven-in-ten Hispanics who are religiously unaffiliated also favor legal marriage for gays and lesbians (71%). Hispanic evangelical Protestants, by contrast, remain opposed to legal marriage for gays and lesbians by more than two-to-one (66% opposed, 25% in favor).
White, non-Hispanic Catholics express about as much support for same-sex marriage as Hispanic Catholics do (53% and 54%, respectively). White evangelical Protestants are somewhat more opposed to gay marriage (76%) than are Hispanic evangelical Protestants (66%).
Among Hispanics overall, there is less support for same-sex marriage among those who attend religious services regularly (40%) than among those who attend religious services less than once a week (60%). This same pattern is seen among Latino Catholics; six-in-ten Latino Catholics who attend religious services less than weekly support same-sex marriage, compared with 46% of weekly Mass-goers. Among Latino evangelicals, opponents of same-sex marriage outnumber supporters among both regular church attenders and those who attend religious services less than once a week.
Overall, 54% of Latinos say they attend religious services at least once or twice a month. Among this group, about half (29% of Latinos overall) say the clergy in their church or place of worship speak out about abortion (54%). About four-in-ten Latinos report hearing their clergy speak out about immigration (43%), and a similar number say their clergy speak out about laws regarding homosexuality (38%). Latinos are least likely to report that their clergy speak out about candidates and elections (29%).
The extent to which Latinos are hearing about social and political issues in their places of worship varies somewhat by religious tradition. While about half of Latino Catholics (48%) say their clergy speak out about immigration, fewer Latino evangelical Protestants (38%) report hearing about that topic from their clergy. Latino evangelical Protestants, conversely, are somewhat more likely than Latino Catholics to report that their clergy speak out about laws regarding homosexuality (47% of evangelicals vs. 36% of Catholics). Latino Catholics and Latino evangelical Protestants are about equally likely to have clergy who speak out about abortion (57% and 52%, respectively) and about candidates and elections (32% and 29%).
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