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 == same-sex 'marriage' == 

 I thought this issue could be resolved quickly and would not require its own section on this discussion page.  I was apparently wrong, so I am continuing the discussion here.   

 Billions of people object to the term ""same-sex marriage"". Most people agree that ""marriage"" means the same thing that it has meant for hundreds of years: the union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. The best way to handle this is not to use the term ""same-sex marriage"" at all - either with or without quotes. But I thought that a fair compromise would be to change ""same-sex marriage"" to ""same-sex 'marriage'"" since the difference is barely detectible anyway. I really didn't think that was an unreasonable request, given the numbers of people who disapprove of the term. 

 But my changes were quickly reverted with a comment of ""it's not a compromise until someone else actually thinks that they're somehow necessary"".  But billions of people think they're necessary!  In the official teaching of the Catholic church, for example, gay marriage is an oxymoron - a logical impossibility  and Catholics represent 1/6 of the world!  And that is to say nothing of all of the other groups that feel the same way on the matter.  How in the world can you contend that those people don't exist, and that a such an enormous number of people's views should not be acknowledged with even a single quote?  "