Response to Megan Cooney's Question

Megan posed the question, "What is it that changed the minds of people to become more accepting of atheism?"

I believe that people have become more accepting of atheism for some of the same reasons that they have become more accepting of other things like gay marriage, for example. Over time it seems that new things pop up in society that people develop issues with and eventually they overcome those issues or learn to deal with them. This is not saying that there aren't people who continue to have issues as many do, but I think that people eventually notice with most things that there are people that support whatever the "issue" is, in this case atheism, and they realize that people can have differences of opinions and beliefs.

So, as I was typing this my roommate read an article about the boy scouts written by a former boy scout. It mentioned that the boy scouts frown upon gay and atheist members and I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge of this or what they thought?