"No religion accepts us as the person we know ourselves to be. Rather, we are told that we are inadequate, unsatisfactory and helpless. We fear that this is so, and to give us hope we construct a fantasy about how we are superior to those who do not share our views. On these grounds we feel entitled to force our views on non-believers."

Also, why are many religions against homosexuality?

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

Those images in the back are full of naked men and women casually acknowledging each other. This is a religious symbol in a very well-known chapel and it's full of homosexual images made many years before any of us were even born. So why is homosexuality unacceptable to some of the more narrow-minded religious followers?

What is associated to religion in the quote is just as true of any large scale belief system I have ever seen, and is heavily present in secular movements like the anti-War, anti-Nuclear, anti-Globalization and Environmental movements of the past 50 years.

What do I think of that quote? I think it's inaccurate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups

Of the top 5 on that list, only Christianity and Islam are accurate, with respect to that quote.

And the reason Christians are against homosexuality, is because the bible tells them to be. There are many things the bible tells people to be against that christens seem to let slide, but the failing as a christian is a tolerance of other things, not the lack of tolerance of homosexuality.

personally, I am an atheist, so I don't give a shit if your gay or not :)

This seems true of patriarchial religion aka Juedo Christian religions. It is not necasssarily true for great Eastern religions like dioism/ taoism.
And yes the religous show their percieved superiority all the time just by stating that it is absolute truth. Science also states its truth, but never claims itself as absolute truth.

Well, what I think about religion in general is that people can believe whatever they want if they dont violate any right, law, etc.. of others and the estate has nothing to do with it.

Im agnostic myself so I wouldnt care about gay people or stuff like that.

The bolded I agree with, because rights are universal(at least they should be in a perfect world), but laws are not. As long as you aren't ramming it down other peoples throats and keep it to yourself more power to you.

well said,their supposed to be tolernt and loving yet i dont see much love to gays

Shouldn't we just let everybody get married, and then let God sort 'em out?

Well as some said it has to do with their religious texts although they follow it very hypocritically following some and not following others. Or simply making stuff up off the spot (hell being a place of torture anyone haha... in the bible it's described as the grave and that's it).

Really I don't know why religions can be unaccepting. Really it turns out to be a lot of other things where they try to identify what am I and where do I belong which is a typical question in a social human world. In that process they also try to understand who isn't one of us which causes such things. Though for these people, they need not worry. In most of the religions they'll all be judged on the final days and then it'll only be up to god.

But you see this kind of thing in politics a lot. Hell a lot of the issues in American politics right now is based upon that notion (what does it mean to be an American and more importantly what isn't American). Whole tea party movement is based off this in fact of trying to figure out what America is and what doesn't belong (and on the more racial fronts of it, who doesn't belong). And despite one being religious and the other being political, I think they have similar connections just because humans are always trying to find their place in a social world. As much as we like individuality, we do seem to be social creatures. That is the reason Aristotle called Political science the master science, because it is the study of the social human.