A Gallup poll in 1999 asked American voters the following question: 'If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be an X would you vote for that person?' X took on the following values: Catholic, Jew, Baptist, Mormon, black, homosexual, woman, atheist. Six out of the eight categories secured better than 90 percent approval. But only 59 percent would vote for a homosexual, and just 49 percent would vote for an atheist.This is mentioned in the context of the word bright becoming the new term for "a person with a naturalistic world view". The good professor is also talking about it in The Guardian. So is bright the new gay? We shall see, o bright ones.
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