Catholic ping!
He might have mentioned the many who live together without cover of marriage but who are granted by the states the privileges of marriage. Albeit, this may require the intervention of a court, to obtain recognition, but the rights exist. Why is one reason why so many couples chose not to marry. Many gays will now try to tap into this pool now that the law has acknowledged the conjugal unions of two men or two women.
**Catholic doctrine and discipline can never, ever, recognize as married two persons of the same sex, and any Catholic who regards “same-sex marriage” as marriage is, beyond question, “opposed to the doctrine for the Church” (Canon 750 § 2). **
Thanks, Ed.