Oct 18 (Reuters) - More than half of Latinos favor same-sex
marriage, and Latino Catholics are much more supportive of
President Barack Obama than Latino evangelicals, according to a
Pew poll on religion and politics released Thursday.
For the first time since the Pew Hispanic Center began
asking the question in its National Survey of Latinos, more
Hispanics favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally than
oppose same-sex marriage, by 52 percent to 34 percent. As
recently as 2006, those figures were reversed, with 56 percent
of Latinos opposing same-sex marriage while 31 percent supported
it.