Link: http://www.ur.umn.edu/FMPro?-db=releases&-lay=web&-format=umnnewsreleases/releasesdetail.html&ID=2816&-Find

...according to this study performed by the University of Minnesota. As follows:

University researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.” Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry.
Even though atheists are few in number, not formally organized and relatively hard to publicly identify, they are seen as a threat to the American way of life by a large portion of the American public. “Atheists, who account for about 3 percent of the U.S. population, offer a glaring exception to the rule of increasing social tolerance over the last 30 years,” says Penny Edgell, associate sociology professor and the study’s lead researcher.

Well, it's nice to know that folks like me are regarded so highly by people of other faiths and religious persuasions...now remind me, why did I move to this country? Oh yes. Freedom and tolerance. Hmmm. Better scrap that silly idea then...or maybe some people would benefit from reading this section from the latest article from Harpers by Lewis Lapham (who probably hates America anyway, but even haters can come up with cogent arguments from time to time):

If I’m wary of religious belief in any and all its ardent emissions, it’s because I remember, as did the authors of the American Constitution, the vast numbers of people crucified – also burned, tortured, beheaded, drawn, quartered, imprisoned, and enslaved – on one or another of its ceremonial altars (Protestant, Muslim, Catholic, Aztec) over the course of the last 2,000 years. Nor do I know why I must respect somebody merely for the fact of his or her belief, as if the attachment to a belief, in and of itself, somehow bestows a state of grace. I don’t quarrel with anybody’s right to believe anything that he or she wishes to believe, but passion isn’t a synonym for truth.