{"id":73111,"date":"2012-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2012\/10\/18\/latinos-religion-and-campaign-2012-2-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:13:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:13:26","slug":"latinos-religion-and-campaign-2012-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2012\/10\/18\/latinos-religion-and-campaign-2012-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Latinos, Religion and Campaign 2012: Latino Catholics Strongly Favor Obama, Latino Evangelicals More Divided"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rapidly Growing Hispanic Support for Same-Sex Marriage<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Washington, D.C.<\/strong> \u2013 Latinos are divided byreligion in their preferences in the upcoming presidential election, accordingto a new Pew Research Center survey<\/a>. Three-quarters of LatinoCatholics and eight-in-ten religiously unaffiliated Latinos support PresidentBarack Obama\u2019s re-election. However, among Latino evangelical Protestants, whoaccount for 16% of all Latino registered voters, just 50% prefer Obama, while39% support his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n\n

Thesesame patterns are reflected in Latinos\u2019 partisan affiliations. Eight-in-tenreligiously unaffiliated Latino voters (who make up 15% of the Latinoelectorate) and seven-in-ten Latino Catholics (57% of the Latino electorate)are Democrats or lean toward the Democratic Party. Among Latino evangelicalvoters, identification with the Democratic Party is lower; about half areDemocrats or lean Democratic, while about a third are Republicans or leantoward the Republican Party.<\/p>\n\n

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Jemila Woodson<\/strong>
Communications Associate
202-419-4562
jwoodson@pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Liga Plaveniece<\/strong>
Communications Associate
202-419-4562
lplaveniece@pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Asthe presidential election approaches, many Hispanic churchgoers say they arehearing from their clergy about various political issues and, to a lesserextent, about candidates and elections. Roughly half of Latinos (54%) whoattend religious services at least once a month say they have heard theirclergy speak out about abortion, while 43% have heard from the pulpit aboutimmigration, and 38% say their clergy have spoken out about homosexuality. Asmaller proportion, roughly three-in-ten, report hearing from their clergyabout candidates and elections.<\/p>\n\n

Thenew survey also finds rapidly growing support for same-sex marriage amongLatinos, mirroring growing support among the general public. Half of Latinosnow favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally, while one-thirdare opposed. As recently as 2006, these figures were reversed (56% of Latinosopposed same-sex marriage, while 31% supported it). Latino evangelicals,however, remain strongly opposed to same-sex marriage (66% opposed vs. 25% infavor).<\/p>\n\n

Thisreport is jointly produced by two projects of the Pew Research Center, the PewForum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Hispanic Center. It is based ona nationally representative bilingual telephone survey conducted Sept. 7-Oct.4, 2012 (largely before the first presidential debate), among 1,765 Latinoadults, including 903 registered voters. The Latino electorate today includes23.7 million eligible voters \u2013 an increase of more than 4 million since 2008.Overall, Latinos now account for 11% of the nation\u2019s eligible electorate, upfrom 9.5% in 2008. In addition, Latinos make up at least 14% of all eligiblevoters in three battleground states this year \u2013 Colorado, Florida and Nevada.<\/p>\n\n

The survey is available on the Pew Forum\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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The Pew ResearchCenter\u2019s Forum on Religion & Public Life conducts surveys, demographicanalyses and other social science research on important aspects of religion andpublic life in the U.S. and around the world. ThePew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization that seeks toimprove understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos\u2019growing impact on the nation. Both are projects of the Washington-basedPew Research Center, a nonpartisan, non-advocacy \u201cfact-tank\u201d that does not takepositions on policy debates or any of the issues it covers<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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