Hudson & Fournier: Catholic Countdown to Election 2012, Day 3. Latino Voters Reminded to Protect Religious Liberty

By Deal W Hudson and Keith A Fournier
11/3/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Please forward this video to your email lists, and post it on your blogs

Please forward this video to your email lists, and post it on your blogs. It's imperative that all Americans hear this message, especially Latinos who in the near future will move to the center of our nation's economic and cultural life. Verastegui's video, produced and released by Let Freedom Ring, is a reminder to Latinos that looming social issues - and religious freedom - are at stake in the election, now only a few days away.

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WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - Of the many videos that have been released this political season, few are more important than the one released today featuring the Hispanic actor Eduardo Verastegui.

A major TV celebrity in his home country of Mexico, Verastegui became well-known in the United States with the promotion and release of his feature film "Bella" in 2006.

Since then, in addition to ongoing film roles, Verastegui has become a major spokesperson for life and marriage issues among Latinos, Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical Protestant.

Few celebrities we have met have the personal charisma and obvious sincerity of Eduardo Verastegui. If only more Latino celebrities and politicians stood with him on the issues so important to the future of our nation.

Latino voters are often called naturally pro-family and socially conservative, but the majority of Latino members of Congress don't reflect those attitudes.

One of the crucial variables of the upcoming election Is the Hispanic vote, approximately 8 percent of the national vote but growing quickly.

In 2004, George W. Bush garnered 44 percent of the Hispanic vote, a historic high for a GOP candidate. Republicans did not merely look the "gift horse in the mouth," they blew the horse sky high with their vituperative immigration protests of 2005.

As a result, in 2008 John McCain received only a little more than half the Latino support given to Bush four years earlier. In 2010, so besmirched five years earlier, the GOP failed to improve its standing with Latino voters.

The question in 2012 is whether or not Latinos will notice that Obama did nothing to address the immigration issues they care so much about, The Dream Act, verbally championed by Obama and the Democrats, stayed on the shelf.

For Latinos, however, it's the ugly memories of 2005 that will be more present to their minds than Obama's failure to act on immigration reform.

Verastegui's video, produced and released by Let Freedom Ring, is a reminder to Latinos that looming social issues - and religious freedom - are at stake in the election, now only a few days away.

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Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for January 2013
General Intention: The Faith of Christians. That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness joyfully to the gift of faith in him.
Missionary Intention: Middle Eastern Christians. That the Christian communities of the Middle East, often discriminated against, may receive from the Holy Spirit the strength of fidelity and perseverance.

Keywords: Eduardo Verastegui, Pro-Life, Pro-Marriage, Latino Voters, Hispanic Voters, Value Voters, catholic Voters, Evangelical Voters, Faith, Religious Liberty, Religious Freedom, Romney, Ryan, Obama, Biden, campaign 2012, Deal W Hudson, Keith A Fournier

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Mike
6 months ago
No offense or bigotry intended but as an American of Italian ancestry it was from my ancestors in Italy that Latin originated and devoloped by ancient Rome, Julius Ceaser, Pompeii, the Vatican and the Catholic Church by language, culture, and tribes and it is our historical and culturial legacy for over 2000 years and was the language of Rome when Christ walked the earth. It is very baffling how this term ended up being used for Spanish speaking peoples of the Western Hemisphere who are not of the Latin stock, nor did Latin come from them, nor did they ever speak it, plus it is now being corrupted into Latino all within the past few decades plus made into a racial category for themselves. It is even more baffling how no one with a decent knowledge of history does not realize to set the record straight on one of the worlds most profound heritages
Mister H
6 months ago
Many Americans would be surprised at the extent to which President Obama has advanced a pro-abortion agenda through a long list of "bill signings, speeches, appointments, and other actions" since his election in November, 2008.
His many pro-abortion actions are documented at the link. The list is shockingly long and extensive.

I am writing to ask your help in spreading the word about President Obama's pro-abortion activities.

For the sake of America's future children, please forward this the link below to all the people on your e-mail contact list, so that as many people as possible can learn the shocking truth about our pro-abortion President as we head into Tuesday's critical election.

A posting of the link on your Facebook page would be helpful as well.

The link:

http://www.lifenews.com/2010/11/07/obamaabortionrecord/
Tom McGuire
6 months ago
Where does Governor Mitt Romney stand on immigration policy? His views seem to change depending on the audience he is talking to. A woman interviewed yesterday was seeking to stay in the United States to raise her three children. She was applying for status President Obama made available to children of illegal immigrants born in the United States. I have heard nothing from Governor Mitt Romney that would give confidence to this woman the dream for her family could be realized. The rhetoric she has heard from the supporters of the Governor has been very anti-human dignity and anti-family.

I wish more issues of this kind had been discussed in this series of articles on the elections. I made a huge mistake in assuming the authors were cafeteria Catholics in a recent post. What I should have said was that this series of articles has been limited in scope to a few issues. I apologize for my mistaken assumptions.

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