Quote:No I understand all that.

 

What I do not understand is WHY a separate term is needed. If it's not for appeasement of religious then what is the point? If it's a compromise than what exactly is the compromise? This is what it sounds like to me and maybe this will help us understand each other:

 

"Hey, we created a new thing so now you can get married but not really because we have decided to give ownership of the term marriage to religious except you can still say you are married and other people will say it also but really you are not and are technically still excluded from a term that is universally used for the new thing we created."