As an atheistic thread this is a lot about catholic religion...
I would consider myself not very atheistic, nor very religious. I prfer to have my own thoughts on something. I don't know if there is some higher entity than humans, but I think if there is, I won't call it "god". So, beliving, that it is possible, that there are some kind of higher developed beings, I am surely not a true etheist, or am I?
To the ongoing "gay vs. catholic teachings" discussions:
Isn't the whole problem with religions, no matter what, not the religion itself, but what human interpret into their teachings and writings? Personally I won't consider "god" as an "existing entity", it is more an "idea". It is more that rules of ethic are getting some kind of face in faith.
To say it with the Saints:
"You shall not kill, you shall not rape, you shall not steal."