{"id":41,"date":"2010-07-23T17:24:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T17:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/07\/why-do-latino-catholics-support-same-sex-marriage.html"},"modified":"2010-07-23T17:24:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T17:24:40","slug":"why-do-latino-catholics-support-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/07\/why-do-latino-catholics-support-same-sex-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Why do Latino Catholics support same-sex marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most notable result of the new Public Religion Research Institute survey<\/a>
\nof attitudes toward Proposition 8 is the divide between Latino
\nCatholics and Latino Protestants. The former are more in favor of
\nsame-sex marriage than any other ethno-religious group in the survey;
\nthe former are more opposed. (That’s Catholics 57-38 in favor versus
\nProtestants 73-22 opposed.) The correlation that’s caught most attention
\nis the disproportionately high number of Latino Catholics (41 percent)
\nwho think of God as an impersonal force. Although we’re unfortunately
\nnot given a number for Latino Protestants, we are meant to assume that
\nmost of them regard God “as a person with whom one can have a
\nrelationship.”<\/p>\n

I can’t dispute the Catholic number, but it makes no sense to me as an
\nexplanation. Latino Catholicism is, by all accounts, rich in personal
\nconnection–to the Virgin Mary and other saints, for example. I’d
\nsuggest that for Latino Protestants–as for evangelicals
\ngenerally–same-sex marriage is a major issue, in effect a defining
\nelement of their faith. For Latino Catholics, it’s not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most notable result of the new Public Religion Research Institute survey of attitudes toward Proposition 8 is the divide between Latino Catholics and Latino Protestants. The former are more in favor of same-sex marriage than any other ethno-religious group in the survey; the former are more opposed. 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