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Do Atheists Hate Gays?

Survey: Do you know of any atheists who oppose gay marriage? If so, I would like to know why. Gay marriage has always been a religious issue because the gods don’t like gays to marry. Why would an atheist support making gay marriage illegal?
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Permalink Reply by Skylar on August 4, 2009 at 12:57am

No, I do not know any atheists who oppose gay marriage. All of the atheists that I know support gay marriage, with the exception, perhaps of those who oppose marriage in general.

Permalink Reply by Michael on August 4, 2009 at 11:13pm

I neither support or defend anything that doesn't affect me. I got verbally assaulted a few years back because during discussion with several people about the election that I was leaning toward Bush over Kerry. A gay guy in the group yelled at me that I was what was wrong because me voting for people like Bush was going to keep him from being happy. (It was allot more that than but thats the gist of it) Sure it may suck for him when Bush got elected and sure it turned out to suck for most of us but we all vote on issues that affect us. I could give two fucks about gay marriage or abortion. It has not affect on my day to day life. I don't even care if someone wants to marry their dog or their sister. I really, really, really don't care. If two dudes get married tomorrow it wouldn't change my day. If they don't still doesn't change my day. Is it legal is it not, I don't really care. I'm not going to bang a drum and support it because it doesn't affect me. When I decide to take one up the tail pipe or grow a womb I'll worry about abortion or gay marriage.

Permalink Reply by Orson_Zedd on August 4, 2009 at 11:21pm

I've only met one, and his reasons were semantic. He just didn't want to call it marriage because he didn't want to learn a new definition for a word.

Permalink Reply by Michael on August 4, 2009 at 11:39pm

The real question is how many atheist support gay marraige only because they think it will piss off theists.

Permalink Reply by Michael on August 4, 2009 at 11:48pm

Like I've said before I'm pro - None of my damn buisiness. Just because I can have an opinion dosn't mean I should or do.

Plus the neat thing about Atheism-- you don't have to believe anything. To say something is incompatable with Atheism would be saying their are purely "Atheist" values and standards. If you don't believe in a god it dosn't mean you have to be a nice guy/gal you can be a racist bigoted asshole. The only difference is your the asshole not god, because your only jstification is your own rational. For us to talk like that is for us to start talking like them. Last I checked we didn't have a dogma, unless I missed that day.

Permalink Reply by The Secular One on August 5, 2009 at 11:48am

I have to say, that I'm a little ashamed on this issue. I didn't realize how big of a deal it was until I got engaged to a woman of another race (I'm white, she's black). Looking into the history I realized that IN MY LIFETIME that their were still laws on the books of some states saying we couldn't marry for all the same idiotic reasons given against gay people.

Be assured that when/if it comes to a vote where I'm at, I'm voting for your freedoms.

Permalink Reply by Richard Haynes on August 5, 2009 at 12:57pm

I have posted the verdict concerning Charlie Here: http://atheistnexus.org/profiles/blog/show?id=2182797:BlogPost:4450...

Thanks to you all for your comments and suggestions.