America’s most distrusted minority
“American’s increasing acceptance of religious diversity doesn’t extend to those who don’t believe in a god… From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in ‘sharing their vision of American society.’ Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry. Even though atheists are few in number, not formally organized and relatively hard to publicly identify, they are seen as a threat to the American way of life by a large portion of the American public.” News release of a national survey by University of Minnesota’s department of sociology