If I ruled the world ...

Bingley, you made the same point a Catholic priest made t'other day on Canuck tv. It does make sense.

I guess I'm just thinking of the weight of tradition. Somehow, marriage is irrevocably defined in my brain as being something between a man and a woman. Why can't there be a new term for a "marriage" between a man and a man, or a woman and a woman? It is, after all, a new thing - ie, not the same as marriage as we have known it. And language is always growing and changing - it's so elastic, can't it stretch to come up with a new term?