Officer Ponch nails it again... ;-)
Posted on 11/03/2005 3:56:01 PM PST by thompsonsjkc
Limiting the rights of same-sex couples disproportionately harms Hispanic gays and lesbians because they are less likely than their white counterparts to be U.S. citizens and more likely to raise children and earn less, a national group said Tuesday.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force based its claims on a report that analyzed 2000 U.S. Census data. The report found constitutional bans on same-sex marriage — such as Proposition 2 on the Nov. 8 ballot — would hurt Hispanics more than whites.
"This is the richest, most complete data set on same-sex couples ... and it comes from our own government, and that's why it's so important," said Jason Cianciotto, author of the report and research director of the task force's Policy Institute.
Jonathan Saenz, staff attorney with the Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute and a Proposition 2 supporter, questions whether the task force truly cares about Hispanics or is merely using them to legalize gay marriage. "I don't want Hispanic people and statistics to be used as a pawn to advance someone's agenda," said Saenz.
The report found that Hispanic same-sex partners were raising children at more than three times the rate of white, non-Hispanic, same-sex couples.
White gay couples earn an average of $65,000 annually, while Hispanic same-sex couples earn less than $40,000. About 51 percent of gay couples where both partners are Hispanic were identified as not being U.S. citizens, the report says. For couples comprising Hispanic and white men, 8 percent were not U.S. citizens.
If gay marriage were legal in Texas, Christopher Rigdon said he would be able to sponsor his Colombian-born partner, Sergio Sarmiento, for U.S. citizenship. "We talk about equality as a strong American ideal ... but we do not extend it to gay and lesbian citizens," Rigdon, 33, a Houston-area teacher, said.
Sarmiento and Rigdon are among 5,000 same-sex Hispanic couples in Texas identified in the report.
"This makes me wonder whether the report's motivation is to change immigration laws instead of solidifying loving relationships," Saenz said.
Of the approximately 600,000 same-sex couple households, 105,025 were identified as Hispanic, the report says. The Census allows people to identify whether they are part of a same-sex couple living in the same house.
Cianciotto said the actual number of same-sex households is probably 50 percent more than those reported.
"For people like me, this document does not come as a surprise," said Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, an Austin-based board member of National Latino/a Coalition for Justice.
how 2-3% of the population garners so much ink/discussion.
Not to mention Prop. 2 is about Texas only.
THAT is a load of crap - The majority of those coming from Mexico and Central America are extremely moral and hard working -- you know -- just like our forefathers were.
It is the welfare slaves that are the real threat to America -- they and their Masters-in-black-robes under the racist DNC
Oh, great. That's all we need!
Ackk - will ping out later, tnx - gotta run, busy til later tonight.
It's called "clutching at straws".
Officer Ponch nails it again... ;-)
Oh, that's just wrong, seeing as how Ponch is a Latino.
Yup, lotsa numbers being flung about. And then of course you've got the report's author himself asserting that the "actual number of same-sex households is probably 50 percent more than those reported." Who needs facts?
So it is now racist to support traditional marriage?
Yes that is the general idea.
That's contrary to Machismo.
Very typical of the liberal obfuscation we have come to expect from the Houston Chronicle.
The Houston Chronicle is sometimes mistakenly assumed to lean towards conservatism by people outside of Texas because of the home town where it's published. Don't be fooled by that. The staff and managing editors of the Houston Chronicle are leftists of the first order who rarely represent the majority opinion of Houston area residents and never represent fairly the opinion of conservatives.
I can assure you that a large majority of Houston area residents, especially Hispanics, will vote for the proposition banning same-sex marriage in Texas.
Infering all "latino" men are homosexuals is the exact intent of the article.
or as the reporter says "We are reporting 50000000000000 million latinos are homosexuals, we have no evident to support this but right now we are reporting 5000000000000000000000000000000000 million latinos are homosexuals. In case you just joined us, we are reporting 5000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 milion latinos are homosexuals."
ah,.... using the Calypso Louie Million-Man-Math I see
(s)Latino group, all latinos are homosexuals now, Calypso Louie is a supporter of homosexual rights since he had a billion MAN march and only MEN were invited.(/s)
This sounds like an alarmingly high number, but consider that there are 60 million coupled households in the US, so only 1% of coupled households are homosexual. About what you would expect for under 2% of the population.
Well, Mr. Estrada is Latino. Ponch was supposedly to be an Italian. Que sera sera...
You realize that include ANY household with a homosexual present. Thus if a homosexual man or woman lives with their normal mother or father, that household is labled as homosexual.
The reverse is not true.
Just a racist use the one drop rule. The homosexuals use the one homo rule.
the homosexuals are trying that with Canadian homosexual marriages. The Immigration Department is refusing based on the 1996 DMA. IOW the immigration service is saying they would if they did not have the pesky DMA. So the homosexuals are currently in Federal court suing for spousal visas.
Right now a illegal alien woman can "buy" a marriage from a homosexual man living in south beach for about 5,000 dollars US. Imagine the pretext marriage industry with homosexual marriage based visas. The immigration service can detect them now, (iow they are incompetent to detect them but in "stuck on stupid" perpetrator cases)there is no way for them to detect them solely based on homosexuals sex behavior.
This is the second article supporting from this ird age liner supporting sodomite marriage.
"I can assure you that a large majority of Houston area residents, especially Hispanics, will vote for the proposition banning same-sex marriage in Texas."
According to a LA Times exit poll, Hispanics voted for California's ban at a higher percentage than Blacks or Whites.
Even though the radical separationist types like aztlan picked John Kerry as best for their concerns, their articles indicate that they are very conservative on the issue of gays. They even opposed the Supreme Court ruling on sodomy:
'US Supreme Court's decision on "sodomy" will worsen the AIDS epidemic'
http://www.aztlan.net/supremecourtsodomy.htm
'Sodomites force the closure of 65 Catholic parishes in Boston'
http://www.aztlan.net/65_parishes_close.htm
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