More Bad News for the GOP: 59% of Latinos Support Gay Marriage

This blog often notes to apparent long term suicide plan of the Republican Party. Why else would the GOP go out of its way to embrace policies that drive away younger voters, Hispanic voters, women voters and pretty much every minority group that cannot be described as elder, white and far right Christian? Politico is reporting on a new poll of Hispanic voters that holds no good news for the GOP or the folks at the National Organization for Marriage which wants to dupe Hispanics - who the lily white leadership at NOM despises - into carrying NOM's anti-gay message. Its refreshing that Hispanic voters seem to understand that NOM and its allies make tawdry prostitutes look virtuous. Here are some story highlights:

Latinos are more likely than other Americans to say they’re liberal, according to a poll out Wednesday. Three out of 10 Latino adults say they consider themselves liberal compared to 21 percent of the general U.S. public, the Pew Hispanic Center’s 2011 National Survey of Latinos poll found. And more native-born Hispanics than immigrant Hispanics say they are “very liberal” or “liberal,” 34 percent to 27 percent.

On social issues, Hispanics hold more conservative views on abortion than does the general U.S. public, but they share similar opinions on accepting homosexuality in society.

On the issue of whether homosexuality should be accepted by society, a majority — 59 percent — say that it should. Just 30 percent told pollsters it should be discouraged. Those numbers line up with the general U.S. public, with 58 percent saying homosexuality should be accepted, and 33 percent saying it should be discouraged. Again, there is a slight difference by immigrant generation: 53 percent of immigrant Hispanics say it should be accepted, and it jumps to 68 percent among second-generation Hispanics. Like the general public, more Hispanics who are younger say homosexuality should be accepted, with 69 percent of 18- to-29-year-olds and 60 percent of 30- to-49-year-olds telling pollsters that society should not discourage it.

Somehow, I cannot find it in my heart to shed any tears over the long term suicide plan of the GOP. One can only hope that as the GOP dies the foul political influence of the Christianists will die with it. With luck, the death rattles will start with the 2012 elections.