The kerfuffles over undocumented immigrants and same-sex marriage are usually competing and unresolved hot-button issues for voters heading toward the ballot box, but immigration advocates and LGBTQ rights groups have long tried to get their constituencies working together. Historically, such efforts have been abysmal, but now CASA de Maryland, a community organization advocating for undocumented immigrants, has formed an alliance with Equality Maryland and the Latino GLBT History Project.
This might be the first such alliance in the country. The alliance (albeit not an uncontentious one) will allow proponents of in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants and proponents of same-sex marriage to pull support from each other’s bases at the ballot box. Theoretically the move is brilliant. It’s a strength-through-unity approach.
An April report from the Pew Hispanic Center revealed that 59 percent of Latinos accept lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) Americans. And an April report released by the National Council of La Raza and Social Science Research Solutions found that 54 percent of Hispanics support same-sex marriage, a higher percentage than the general population, and certainly a far greater percentage than in my community.
Authored By Irene Monroe – See the Full Story at the Huffington Post
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