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National Latino leaders will be center stage in Denver this weekend to support marriage and family, announced the Alliance for Marriage Foundation (AFM) today.
“Marriage and family are central to Hispanic Americans – and the driving engine of our growth and success as a community,” said Rev. Sam Rodriguez, an AFM Advisory Board Member and President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. “America’s Latino community will be the determining force to honor marriage and family under our laws.”
The non-partisan event will break new ground by launching an unprecedented national coalition of Catholic and Evangelical Latino leaders in support of marriage and family. The Alliance for Marriage Foundation, the group who had the foresight to draft the Marriage Protection Amendment in Congress long before marriage became a defining social issue, is organizing the event in support of marriage and family.
“For years, the Alliance for Marriage has built a broad national coalition that reflects the wide support for marriage in America across racial, cultural and religious boundary lines,” said Matt Daniels, President and Founder of the Alliance for Marriage Foundation. “Building on this strategy, we are leading the effort to educate and mobilize Latino Americans in the struggle to protect marriage for the sake of our children and grandchildren.”
Leaders of the Latino community from Colorado, California, Arizona and many other states will stand united to celebrate family life and to promote marriage in America.
The emerging importance of the Latino community to America’s political landscape has long been documented by demographic experts. In fact, the population of Latinos in America “will triple in size” in the next four decades, according to the Pew Research Center.
In light of this, political operatives in both parties are working harder than ever to cultivate Latino voters. But while Latinos do have the political power to determine elections, many in American politics have ignored the deep attachment to marriage and family that is woven into the very fabric of the Latino community nationwide. |
