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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Politics
Cindy Carcamo

Latino evangelicals used to shun politics. Now their right-wing ideas could help sway US elections

LOS ANGELES — It was only a few days before the 2020 presidential election when a woman named Martha called into Pastor Netz Gómez's Spanish-language evangelical Christian radio show to say she was confused about who to vote for.

Gómez, the head pastor at Houses of Light Church in Northridge, immediately perked up. This was a chance for him to gently nudge another member of the faithful toward the biblical and conservative values that he embraces. So he directed Martha and other listeners to a 2020 Spanish-language voter guide that Houses of Light church leaders had created for their congregation.

"Us Christians who vote biblically can make a great difference in our nation," said Gómez, a 61-year-old pastor from Mexico City who leads the 2,000-strong nondenominational church, which leans evangelical.

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