LATINAS, RELIGION AND POLITICS
Like many Latina women, I was born and raised Catholic, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have doubts about my religion. Now that I am a mother, I struggle with the idea of baptizing my son in a Church that does not support some of the values I hold dear. How can I teach my son about equality, tolerance and acceptance of the gay community on one hand and then tell him on the other that the Church believes gay marriage is wrong? How can mothers teach their daughters they can be whatever they want to be, but then say, “But in the Catholic Church, only men are allowed to be priests?”
