Americans and Religion

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I recently stumbled upon this article.

Based on a telephone survey of more than 2,000 households and in-depth interviews with more than 140 people, researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, homosexuals and other groups as "sharing their vision of American society." Americans are also least willing to let their children marry atheists.

Is this a view any of the american posters here can recognize?

Least likely to "let their children marry Athiests"?

Umm... what parents are enforcing arranged marriages? Do American parents really have any ability to "not let" their children marry anyone?

I suspect the questions in this survey were carefully worded to garner specific responses, or the interviewees were picked in a non-random fashion.

Of course, it could just be that I have lived in a very tolerant area of the country my whole life (urban California), and I underestimate the amount of racial and religious prejudice in areas of the country that I am not as familiar with.