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Given that [[Homosexuality and choice|homosexuality is a choice]], the existence many [[ex-homosexuals]] and the many health risks of homosexuality and its effect on the larger population through [[Bisexuality|bisexuals]], the continued advocacy of homosexuality by atheists is another example of atheist hypocrisy.
Given that [[Homosexuality and choice|homosexuality is a choice]], the existence many [[ex-homosexuals]] and the many health risks of homosexuality and its effect on the larger population through [[Bisexuality|bisexuals]], the continued advocacy of homosexuality by atheists is another example of atheist hypocrisy.
== Atheistic communism, the American Atheists and homosexuality ==
== Atheistic communism, the American Atheists and homosexuality ==
[[Secular left|Leftist atheists]] in the [[Western World]], commonly complain about the Bible declaring [[homosexuality]] to be a [[sin]] and Christian negative attitudes against homosexuality, yet atheistic [[communism|communist]] regimes took strong measures to reduce the prevalence of homosexuality in their societies due to seeing homosexuality as a symptom of bourgeois decadence.nist position, practiced in the Soviet Union, that homosexuality is a form of bourgeois decadence."<ref name="Chapman">{{cite book|last=Chapman|first=Thomas E.|title=Constructing the Moral Landscape Through Antidiscrimination Law: Discourse, Debate, and Dialogue of Sexual Citizenship in Three Florida Communities|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bZE5UgNRP8cC&pg=PA142|accessdate=25 April 2014|year=2007|publisher=ProQuest|isbn=9780549469575|page=142|quote=Another element contributing to Cuba's past anti-gay policies was for a time, the government adopted the Stalinist position, practiced in the Soviet Union, that homosexuality is a form of bourgeois decadence.}}</ref> In addition, the [[American Atheists]] organization was embroiled in a controversy due to the critical comments that Dave Muscato, the Public Relations Director for American Atheists, said about homosexual activists.<ref name=Stedman>{{cite web|url=http://chrisstedman.religionnews.com/2013/12/13/american-atheists-public-relations-director/|title=Does American Atheists agree with this offensive LGBTQ comment?|last=Stedman|first=Chris|date=13 December 2013|publisher=Religion News Service|accessdate=25 April 2014}}</ref> See: [[Atheism and the persecution of homosexuals]]
[[Secular left|Leftist atheists]] in the [[Western World]], commonly complain about the Bible declaring [[homosexuality]] to be a [[sin]] and Christian negative attitudes against homosexuality, yet atheistic [[communism|communist]] regimes took strong measures to reduce the prevalence of homosexuality in their societies due to seeing homosexuality as a symptom of bourgeois decadence.nist position, practiced in the Soviet Union, that homosexuality is a form of bourgeois decadence."<ref name="Chapman">{{cite book|last=Chapman|first=Thomas E.|title=Constructing the Moral Landscape Through Antidiscrimination Law: Discourse, Debate, and Dialogue of Sexual Citizenship in Three Florida Communities|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bZE5UgNRP8cC&pg=PA142|accessdate=25 April 2014|year=2007|publisher=ProQuest|isbn=9780549469575|page=142|quote=Another element contributing to Cuba's past anti-gay policies was for a time, the government adopted the Stalinist position, practiced in the Soviet Union, that homosexuality is a form of bourgeois decadence.}}</ref> In addition, the [[American Atheists]] organization was embroiled in a controversy due to the critical comments that Dave Muscato, the Public Relations Director for American Atheists, said about homosexual activists.<ref name=Stedman>{{cite web|url=http://chrisstedman.religionnews.com/2013/12/13/american-atheists-public-relations-director/|title=Does American Atheists agree with this offensive LGBTQ comment?|last=Stedman|first=Chris|date=13 December 2013|publisher=Religion News Service|accessdate=25 April 2014}}</ref> See: [[Atheism and the persecution of homosexuals]]
[[Image:2384975035_230a0eac30.jpg|thumb|right|170px|The [[Wall Street Journal]] reported: "A comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows ...that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to [[superstition]], tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in [[pseudoscience]] than evangelical Christians."<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html</ref>]]
== Atheism and superstition ==
== Atheism and superstition ==