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.
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Ookay, what will they come up with next? They're frothing at the mouth babbling. It looks as though they have rabies. Clutching at straws (as i said earlier), just randomly grabbing pet leftist snippets of ideology and special groups and sticking them together willy nilly.
I suppose some leftists actually believe this crap. Or maybe they know they're lying, as they admitted with the "10%" propaganda.
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Just recently here on Long Island some Latino men were arrested for beating up homosexuals at a park off the Long Island Expressway. This park is referred to as "Pickle Park" as it is a well-known place for homos to meet and have anonymous sex. The local papers vilified the alleged beaters(coincidentally they were also illegals) but let the actions of the homos slide, as if they had some constitutional right to engage in public sex. Certainly beating innocent people up is not a moral thing to do, but neither is practicing mass public sodomy.
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it's more accurately a 1% to 1.5%, not 2-3 percent.
What we have is minority mob rule, on many levels in this country.
"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."
No, actually that includes only those who identified themselves as same-sex "spouses" or "unmarried partners" in the census questionnaire.
There's a page explaining the issue here:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/samesex.html
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