It comes to something when the great religions of the world feel they have to come together against homosexuality. If something is so ok as some would have us believe, why such intense condemnation and opposition to it.

As Islam is utterly opposed to homosexuality, this alliance would certainly knock gay marriage on the head.

I have some sympathy with gay people, who I view as just not being wired right. Religions and religious leaders are another matter entirely, they are like the politicians who most people find contemptible.

Victory to the Alliance.

.......A lot of powerful comments on this thread already . Gay 'marriage' has been around for some time. Why start questioning it now ? It will always be contentious , it will continue to happen . I feel it is yet another example of 'muscular christianity' , and in the general scheme of things should take a different position in the 'pecking order' of priorities , when Christians are looking to the Church for guidance and all they can see are (as already mentioned) the sexual and physical abuse of children by 'men of God' , the refusal of the Vatican to allow priests to marry , without them having to relinquish their vows first . Would it not be better for an inter-faith Union to direct it's energies towards religious intolerance , bigotry, racial discrimination , war , and yes - maybe even make some mention of the abhorrent idea of having intercourse with dead women ?
While maintaining my faith in the church - spiritual , I fear I have lost my faith in the church - temporal . I also feel I may not be the only one .

What this illustrates is that this is not about religious doctrine but about religious power - the power of religious groups to dictate to the community how it should behave regardless of religious persuasion.

Over the last few centuries religions have progressively lost the power to dictate behaviour and at each point they have opposed change. For the Judeo-Christian world this has often meant resistence to changes in sexual behaviour. Gay marriage is the latest attempt to hang on to that power.

Doctrinally, if gay marriage is banned, religion will gain nothing. If gay marriage is accepted, religion will lose nothing. Either way life will go on as before, unchanged. What they will lose in the latter case is a little more dominion over the communities behaviour. That is what they fight against.

Funny how these religious bullies spent years berating gay people for their supposedly "promiscuous" lifestyles, yet now they want to stop gay couples settling down and committing to each other! As a secular humanist, I've always thought you should judge a relationship by the quality of that relationship, not its gender composition - clearly, there are good and bad relationships on either side of the gay/ straight divide. The time to enact marriage equality is now.