Latino Voters Poll: Same-Sex Couples Should Be Included In Immigration Reform
[snip]When asked whether same-sex partners should be allowed to petition for legal residency for a spouse, 64 percent of Latino voters said they would support such a policy, while 24 percent said they would oppose it. A strong majority -- 92 percent -- of those who support inclusion in immigration law said it was important that it be made part of reform.
Most Latinos who self-identified as Catholic or evangelical also supported provisions for same-sex couples. For Catholics, views were particularly pronounced when the survey asked about same-sex binational couples who were raising a U.S. citizen child. While 62 percent of Latino voters overall said it was "very important" that those children be able to keep both parents in the U.S., the ratio went up to 70 percent among Catholics.
Exit polling in November found that a majority of Latino voters -- 59 percent -- support state recognition of same-sex marriages, well above the 48 percent of voters overall who supported legalizing gay marriage in their state.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/latino-voters-poll_n_2836354.html
The Latino Decisions poll was conducted nationwide among 500 U.S. citizen Latinos who are registered to vote.
bump
the myth that needs killed
That whole “natural conservative” is a liberal “media” myth.
I think we need to work harder at making American conservatives and leave the illegals to their own devices.
When you see “Latino or Hispanic” think MEXICAN! Mexicans ARE NOT AND HAVE NEVER BEEN “Conservative”! Mexicans are like GYPSIES.
The biggest secret conservatives are UNAWARE of is THIS!!..
Progressives gave people on the right wing the handle of “CONSERVATIVE”..
Non Leftists didn’t start calling themselves conservatives until the left did..
Progressives NEEDED a term to offset that “they” were “Progressive”..
Sooo they invented the term conservative which just means “SAME OLD, SAME OLD”..
AND........ the non left wing people “BOUGHT IT”..
The secret IS...... conservative still means “SAME OLD, SAME OLD”..
And it goes right over the heads of the republicans(conservatives)...
I tend to like the term “Stupid Party” it Soooo fits..
and leftists are no more progressive than any other Luddite..
RE-Gressive is what they are... republicans are so stupid.. Jeese..
If republicans had any sense they would invent terms for leftists.. creative ones.. funny ones..
And shout them from the house-tops.. reclaiming “the Language”.. maybe Limericks..
I am a natural conservative, never has been a liberal thought cross my mind, lifelong.
Oh and most of south and central America are bastions of conservatism and not socialist hell holes...
do i need a sarc tag on this one???
50 years of evidence regarding immigration law and voting behavior is conclusive. Proposed amnesty legislation will end the two-party system at the national level. The R party will no longer have a national majority in any legislative or executive realm. That is certain. Those who state the illegal immigrant is a natural conservative are in extreme conflict with the empirical evidence.
However, I need to be honest and state my support for immigration reform—I strongly support a new immigration policy that welcomes entrepreneurs, individuals with proven track records of accomplishment, and people who have a clear understanding and attraction to the principles of freedom and responsibility that have made the US the most awe-inspiring victory over oppression, poverty, and hopelessness the world has ever seen. To accommodate this new policy, we will have to accept that not all who want to join us fit in—we will have to say “no thanks” to those who embrace socialist beliefs. That’s my reform.
After the vote on prop 8 in CA a survey showed that while most minorities voted democratic they voted for prop 8. I don’t think that makes them natural conservatives, just socially conservative on that particular issue (mostly because of their culture), and since they had the opportunity to vote on it seperately they did. In a package deal they would have voted democratic all the way.
Oh by the way. That poll at the top of the page?
Consider the source. It’s the Huffington Post, which is even more left-wing than The Nation. Roughly the same as Daily Kos, MoveOn.org, or Talking Points Memo. Count on them to spin-doctor the results in a way that makes left-wingers comfortable and makes conservatives believe that there is no hope. Also count on them to never question the source if it provides tasty fodder for their propaganda machine.
What do you know about the polling organization?
OTOH, if there's no outreach, there's never going to be a crossover.
Right now and for years the Latino community has been bombarded with leftist propaganda to the point where every truth is misrepresented.
My wife and I stopped at a Latino restaurant in LA a while back and she picked up one of the local Spanish ad/newspapers.
She was pointing out and say "What the hell is this?" in Spanish at articles stating that Obama had fixed everything from the economy to "ring around the collar." It was really disgusting, but this is common in the Latino papers, there didn't appear to be any conservative incursion via any written media source.
Then there's Univision which is MSNBC with hot women. There's absolutely an outreach required. We don't have it. No mojo there.
BUT NOT A COMPROMISE OF PRINCIPLE.
The Center is governed by a diverse board of directors that has included active and retired university professors, civil rights leaders, and former government officials.
University professors are almost exclusively socialist.
Civil rights leaders are exclusively socialist.
And the former government officials serving on the board of directors are from the socialist wing of the Democratic Party. What sort of poll do you think they'd commission, AuntB?
Have you ever heard of PUSH POLLING?
You're being fooled by the left-wing echo chamber, AuntB.
One left-wing source mirrors another left-wing source and they all pretend they're impartial. But they're in the business of making left-wing readers feel comfortable, and conservative readers believe that there is no hope.
There are many Caribbean Latinos here in New England and they have long had a high number of out of wedlock births and teen births. Not exactly what we think of as family values.
And those two Baptist leaders Richard Land and Pat Robertson have signed on to amnesty.
I need to know if immigration threads are going to go the way they have in the past with anyone trying to educate about this being dragged through the mud with insults, lies and attacks by some who consider themselves ‘FR insiders’ like ‘BRYAN’ on this thread. If so, please tell me now, so I don’t waste any more of your or my time. If your rule ‘please remember to use common courtesy when posting and refrain from posting personal attacks’ is not going to be enforced, fine, just say so.
Bryan sent several insulting replies to me and I have NEVER posted to him, so don’t blame me for starting it this time!
Thanks.
BTW, most folks from ElSalvador don't believe in marriage. Never did. Costs too much. They all live in poverty there. Much of Latin America is like that.