Plenty of new words have been coined in the past three decades to represent societal changes.
Even women's libbers asked for new words to represent their equality with men. They did not ask to be called "men."
Just because a woman is called a "woman" and not a "man" doesn't make her less equal.
Homosexuals have no more right to call their union a marriage than a man has a right to call himself "female" on his driver's license.
How about calling homosexual unions by a different name, as a caller to Curtis and Kuby suggested today?
Gayrriage. Or Harriage.
'Dearly Beloved. We are gathered here to join this man and this man in holy harriage.'
Naww. I think there would be too many giggles during the ceremony.
I think 'Molybatman' would work better, as in 'holy moly, Batman!