As the assertion has been made (many times) that certain religious groups have it in for gay people, I am curious if there is any demographic data available. Any cites known, or barring that, any opinions or personal anecdotes?
To start off: The majority of the vitrol I’ve heard and seen against gays has been by religious people. However, I’ve seen plenty of non-religious people still advance the same old silly arguments to believe that it’s just religion.
Your title was a hell of a lot more comprehendable than your OP, so I’ll just stick to that:
Is this a poll, or are you looking for real, scientifically sound demographic studies about the attitudes of so-called atheists toward homosexuals? I certainly can’t find any such data on the web, so I’m guessing you’re stuck with a poll.
I’m not a statistic, damn it! I’m an individual! We all are! 
That said, I think gay people, in the case of being women, like women. If the gays in question are men, they will like men.
That is all.
It would be a lot harder for an atheist to defend his position against gay people than it is for a religious person.
I don’t know about the statistics though, but I’m an atheist and I don’t care about gay people. It is not my business telling men where they can stick there penises or what girls can do with their tongues.
There are threads about homosexuality at http://theravingatheist.com in which atheists give non-religious reasons for being bigots in regard to gays and lesbians.
As one might imagine, no the most sound arguments you’ve ever heard.
I’m a straight atheist male. I just now got back from dinner with my gay friend Mike and gave him a big old hug when I left because I like Mike. Statistically Mike is at least as cool as the average gay man so put me in the “Yes” column.
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Gay people? No different than any other kind.
Heck, half the time I can’t even tell if someone is gay unless they out-and-out tell me; once took me over a year to realize a co-worker who I dealt with daily was gay. Shrug
Can a straight male agnostic chime in?
I have no problem with homosexuality. I’ve stated on these boards before that this subject plays a major factor in my agnosticism. How can an almighty god get so strung out over something that doesn’t bother a mere mortal? When god was invented, it was in the image of his macho creators.
I’m an atheist and I think gay people are just super!
Not to tread on any religious types, but I’d imagine there’s a pretty significant correlation between atheism and tolerance of homosexuality.
I am an atheist and I am absolutely fine with homosexuality, so I may be projecting a bit here…
The only idea that comes to mind that would perhaps increase the correlation is that atheism and tolerance of gays are fairly progressive ideas in nature. They are also likely arrived at through means of reasoning. Often people are raised to be of a certain religion and raised with the idea that homosexuality is deviant. To think otherwise is to be thinking independently. It is comparatively rare that someone will be raised without (any) god(s).
Not to say that all Christians are mindless and have faith simply because their parents did, but it’s much easier to simply adopt the belief system of one’s progenitors than to arrive at such a system through one’s own means.
Atheist. “Love and let love” is my philosphy. I also wonder with all that’s wrong in this world, someone will choose to take on gays, and how much time do those people spending having sex that they would judge people by their sexuality?
I have no religious affiliation, and I have nothing against homosexuals. One of my brothers is one, and we get along just fine. I don’t have a position on it, beyond “live like you wanna live.”
What Otto said.
“You got atheism on my homosexual! You got homosexuality all over my atheist!” I’m two great tastes rolled up in one!
Whether or not a person is gay is irrelevant in the decision of whether I like them or not. It’s none of my business what consenting adults do in private.
D’oh! Forgot to add that both my parents–rabid atheists–are prejudiced against homosexuals. Of course, they were born during World War Two and grew up in very small farming communities. Homosexuality was weird and not acceptable. Gays were so far in the closet in their communities that people genuinely thought they didn’t know any.
My parents treat them the same as everyone else, and wouldn’t want them to be denied legal protection or civil rights, but they still recoil from the idea of being gay as “disgusting.” My father also believes most gay people are pedophiles, but would find it ridiculous if anyone suggested a homosexual he knows personally–X from work or Y from the gun club–was one.
Atheist here. No problem with gay/straight whatever. Of course, I might be slightly biased by not being 100% in either camp
Count me as another atheist who has no prejudice against homosexuality and believes they deserve equal recognition.
My atheist parents are probably less tolerant of homosexuality than I am but it’s a lot to do with how they were raised. They were so sheltered that my mother didn’t know homosexuality existed until she was a married woman in her twenties (in fact, neither parent knew anything about sex until after they got engaged). I don’t think they’re so much anti-homosexuality as completely unable to work out how to deal with it.
Atheist here; no problem with gays.
Gay here; no problem with atheists.
Another athiest here. No problem with gays. Couldn’t think a reason to do so.
I’m another atheist who has no problem with gay people.