Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos telling reporters yesterday that there wouldn't be a vote on marriage equality (AP/Mary Altaffer).

If the State Senate is going to vote on marriage equality, it isn't going to happen today. Or tomorrow. Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos came out of yet another three-hour Republican conference today to tell reporters that “There is a concern right now as to the unintended consequences of some of the religious causes, carveouts, protections and we’re reviewing that.” If a vote is to happen on the measure it will now happen either Sunday (since, as Skelos points out, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will be observing the Sabbath) or Monday. Meanwhile, despite support for the measure from more than 700 faith leaders across the State, Archbishop Dolan continues to talk about the “ominous threat” the idea of marriage equality presents.

Calling into Fredric U. Dicker’s WGDJ-AM radio show today from Seattle Dolan repeatedly expressed his opposition to gay marriage, calling it "unjust and immoral," "detrimental for the common good" and "a violation of what we consider the natural law that’s embedded in every man and woman." He also called proponents of marriage equality "well oiled" and "well financed" before adding that though the measure is just one vote short of passing in the Senate it is "not a done deal. There is a good chance that this is not going to pass this year."

Dolan's radio tirade comes as the GOP is using religious concerns to drag their feet on a vote. And not "God hates gays" concerns, instead they are arguing that the measure does not offer enough legal protection for situations like when religious groups don't want to perform or recognize gay marriages. Which is frustrating to many since there are already protections for religious groups in the bill that passed in the Assembly (for the fourth time) on Wednesday. And so it goes.