presidential election, but by the entire avalanche of results that came in," said Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, Ky. "It's not that our message -- we think abortion is wrong, we think same-sex marriage is wrong -- didn't get out. It did get out. But that couldn't make up for the huge majorities of black, Latino and Asian votes for Obama. Even Latino evangelicals supported the president. The white evangelical share of the population is falling while the Latino and Asian populations are rising rapidly. The percentage of Americans who don't identify with a particular religion is also growing , especially among young people. They vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Conservative Christian leaders disagree on what went wrong. Mat Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel , a conservative legal organization, argued that Mitt Romney's downplaying of social issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion in the campaign cost him conservative votes. "While evangelical Christians represented 26% of the total vote in 2008 and again in 2012, the issues that matter to this voting bloc were largely ignored!" Staver wrote. "This enormous voting bloc could produce positive change if it had a pro-life, pro-marriage candidate who would inspire and unify them. They have always been the grassroots activists, but Romney failed to reach out to them in a significant way. He failed to mobilize them." But Jim Daly, head of the conservative-Christian group Focus on the Family , acknowledged that on issues such as gay and lesbian rights,