(June 24, 2009 at 3:39 pm)dagda Wrote: If you will note I said secularist, not atheist. Now can you name a few of theses conflicting teachings and explain why you have jumped to the conclusion that atheists are more accepting people? Can you refrence a study or two as evidence of this theory?You said "Many atheists feel uncomfartable around gay people." actually. Anyway, you were the one making the original claim, so you back up your assertion that "many" atheists feel uncomfortable around gay people.
As for my assertion that atheists are more accepting, my evidence I'm afraid is from my experience and that of others as I made clear. I find that most people who accept relative morality (which almost all atheists accept, the ones who don't usually disbelieve all concepts of morality) are more accepting of other people. Going on the concept of homosexuality, it is easy to see the main reason why people are against it is their religious beliefs (for instance churches were the key proponents of prop 8) and that most (if not all) atheists were arguing that marriage is about love, not about gender.
