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Nah, I'm not a lawyer. I just don't like being lied to, and I think that people who deliberately lie in order to make money should be held legally accountable. Maybe I'm wrong. I myself have not been financially injured, true enough.

There is more than just monetary or physical injury. The nation was founded on the defense of intangible "rights." Here, an overwhelming majority of voters have said across the country that two men cannot be "married." Under the Constitution, the citizens of each state have the right to determine matters like marital status. Here, CBS is effectively depriving citizens of that right by saying marriage between two men exists regardless of what the voting citizens have said.

I just don't like being lied to...

But whose to say they're lying? The men's relationship may not meet your definition of marriage or even the state of California's definition of marriage, but maybe they had some sort of ceremony and they consider themsleves married. CBS is not claiming the men are entitled to state or federal benefits incident to a state-sanctioned marriage. They're just using the word married in a way you or I may not approve of. How about a woman who affectionately calls her best friend her "sister" even though the two may not be children of the same parents. Do you want the government to punish them? I just don't like people crying to nanny government everytime someone does something they don't like.