Americans reject only atheist candidates, not racial and religious minorities.
Evidence
A February 2007 Gallup poll revealed a remarkable degree of social acceptance of this diversity vying for the highest political office in the country. Majorities of Americans reported a willingness to vote for a candidate who is Catholic (95 percent), African American (94 percent), Jewish (92 percent), female (88 percent), Hispanic (87 percent), Mormon (72 percent), twice divorced but currently married (67 percent), elderly (57 percent), or gay (55 percent). Of the provided list of possible candidates, only oneāthe atheist candidate (45 percent)ācould not garner a majority vote. ā Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformedā¦, 229
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Feeds the readerās analytical claim: atheism/apostasy is the singular unresolvable category, mirroring how the Japanese authorities treated public denial of God as the unforgivable act while tolerating other religions.
- SEED: Angle: āBelieving in the wrong god beats believing in noneā as evidence that the Big God mechanism punishes non-participation in watchfulness itself, not merely holding a different godās views.
Related
- Atheism is more disqualifying for US voters than race, gender, or sexuality (similarity 0.90)
- Atheists remain the only US group most voters refuse to support (similarity 0.87)
- Atheists remain the only US minority group that lacks majority social acceptance (similarity 0.86)
- Anti-atheist bias is Americaās one socially accepted prejudice (similarity 0.85)
- American distrust of atheists significantly exceeds that of comparable wealthy democracies. (similarity 0.82)
- American atheist distrust stems from anomalous high religiosity (similarity 0.81)
- Atheists remain the only American group that cannot win majority approval (similarity 0.80)
- Believing in the wrong god is more acceptable than believing in none. (similarity 0.80)
- Being an openly atheist American politician is electoral poison (similarity 0.78)