The US has recognized marriages officiated by Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Shintoists, Buddhists, Atheists, etc., ad nauseum, yet calls them all marriage, and has done so for quite some time. I didn't hear anyone from the Christian camp complaining about those before now, so stop claiming that you don't want the word coopted by the government or whomever; it's been that way for ages. Any posturing about it now is just to hide disapproval of homosexuality. If you believe that homosexuals or homosexuality is immoral or evil or whatever, stop hiding behind absurd semantics that never mattered under similar situations (by your argument) and admit that you don't want them to get married. Stop lying to us and to yourself.