{"id":36800,"date":"2021-06-23T18:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36800"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:35:13","slug":"communion-vote-puts-spotlight-on-hispanic-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36800","title":{"rendered":"Communion vote puts spotlight on Hispanic Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Hispanic Catholics are in the spotlight as\u00a0President Biden\u00a0navigates difficult waters following a vote by U.S.-based bishops to advance an effort to deny Holy Communion to politicians who support abortion rights.<\/p>\n<p>While Latinos are predominantly Catholic, there are divisions within different Hispanic communities on social issues like abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Younger U.S. Hispanics tend to be more liberal on the issue, as do U.S.-born Hispanics, while older and immigrant Latin American Catholics are more likely to support stringent restrictions on abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Democrats are wary of losing any ground with Hispanics, as several Latino-heavy districts throughout the country are expected to be competitive in 2022.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hispanic Catholics are in the spotlight&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36801,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800\/revisions\/36801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}