For the atheist, who cares if religious people don't accept gays? What does it matter? Must everyone agree with you?
"Don't accept" is a pretty broad strawman. Personally, I have a problem with gays not having equal rights as straight people, based solely on their gayness, like I would any other group of people that is not harming others. I imagine this is how many atheists feel, as well.
This. Gays aren't hurting anyone, but religious people have long been hurting gays by discriminating against them, passing "defense of marriage" laws, barring them from military service, passing anti-sodomy laws, barring them from the Boy Scouts, disowning them from their families, beating them up, killing them, etc. Attitudes and laws are rapidly changing, thankfully, to the horror of religious conservatives. They're getting beat silly in the culture wars.
Make no mistake that religious conservatives are the main culprits. In a
Oct. 6, 2010 Pew survey of Americans:
20% of white evangelical Protestants supported gay marriage; 74% opposed it.
31% of all Protestants supported it; 59% opposed it.
46% of Catholics supported it; 42% opposed it. Catholics are coming around, but 42% of Catholics is still a huge number of people.
62% of "unaffiliated" people supported it; 28% opposed it.
76% of Jews supported it, 18% opposed it. Bravo, Jews!
80% of atheists/agnostics supported it; 16% opposed it.
This meshes with my own experience. Most of my friends are non-believers, and none of them have a problem with gays.