The National Council of La Raza (NCLR),  the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States has unanimously come out and endorsed marriage equality.

Michael K Lavers of the Washington Blade:

Former NCLR Board Chair Danny Ortega, a Phoenix lawyer whose term ended after the vote, provided broad details of the conversations that he said took place among the 25 board members before the vote. “We had a discussion about this and clearly some people had more questions than others, but at the end of the discussion it was unanimous,” he said. The resolution passed less than a month after the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons’ Board of Directors endorsed marriage rights for same-sex couples.

Although many Latinos who identify themselves as religious remain opposed to religious marriage ceremonies for gays and lesbians.  A recent Arcus Foundation-funded survey that NCLR and Social Science Research Solutions released in April shows that 54 percent of Latinos support marriage rights for same-sex couples. Sixty-four percent of respondents said they back civil unions for gays and lesbians. The same poll found that 78 percent of Latinos support the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” while 83 percent of respondents support LGBT-specific employment protections.

Gracias, la Raza, por unirse con nosotros en la lucha por la igualdad!