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[eternitytime1@xxxxxxx]

Hi, Not necessarily...
 
Most of the white Christians are very divided on this issue (as are those who 
are of other religions, I would imagine).  What has kept the evangelical world 
as part of the Republican Party has been its stance on abortion, gay rights, 
etc.  When 1/4th of the Evangelical world is made up of Hispanics...shows that 
an increasing number who are focused on making the Republicans 'their' party 
are doing so because of reasons other than that of jobs, etc.
 
Those 'white Christians' are pretty much Republicans for the same reason that 
the Hispanics were--because of the pro-life, anti-gay, etc etc.  Many people 
could not figure out why they were abandoning issues that the Dems 
traditionally stood for in order to go to the party which traditionally was not 
for the 'little person'. 
 
Don't you think that if the Republicans do pass the legislation for making what 
is illegal, legal (and don't give the rest of us a Get Out of Jail Free card 
<sigh>) that the Hispanics will go back into the Republican fold?
 
Or, do the Hispanic Evangelical Christians go towards more their own 
self-serving interests than that of what the typical Evangelical Christian was 
doing in the last election (ie voting on the party line of getting rid of Roe 
vs Wade, keeping gays from marriage/legal partnerships [little irony there, 
no?], etc. etc. 
 
I think that the Senate/Congress will make what is illegal, legal--both because 
of the Corporate American stance to do so (still wonder if that means that 
Corporate America will provide things like healthcare benefits, living wages, 
etc--wouldn't it be nice if John M's article on how they were able to motivate 
that population would continue to do so in orrder to help *all* workers living 
in substandard conditions and receiving substandard not-living-wages...ie 
boycott Walmart <g> until it provides a few benefits so that its people can 
afford the glasses available in the optical department...)
 
I think that the Hispanics will then return to the Republicans--who will have 
truly fortified their base--and the Hispancis will cement the Christian Right's 
viewpoints towards benefits, etc. towards others...1/4th of that population is 
a significant number...
 
Jeb Bush--what Do we know about him, anyway?
 
Best,
Marlena
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 2 May 2006 08:27:17 -0700
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: making illegal legal


> The Latino vote numbers tell the story. In 2002, the Pew Hispanic Center 
> found that > one-fifth of Latino voters were registered as Republicans. In 
> the 2004 presidential > election, Bush got more than one-third of the Latino 
> vote. Without those votes John Kerry > would have won the White House. 
 
And with the recent GOP attacks on Latinos, Latino support for the GOP is at 
2%. 
 
Latinos can see for themselves what the white Christians think of them. 
 
yrs, 
andreas 
www.andreas.com  
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