Vice-Grips. That’s the issue. Ever notice how any brand of locking pliers are usually called Vice-Grips?
I think that this is what has happened with modern society’s understanding of marriage. Today, the generic definition of marriage is two people, who have sexual relations, and live under one roof. Somewhere along the line, the religious significance, religious importance, and religious meaning of marriage have been stripped away. Probably about the time civil government started mandating a license to get married. For those who scream of separation of church and state, why not complain about the state getting involved in what was until then, a strictly religious event?
So rather than just a generic married or marriage, maybe a trademarked Married (TM) and Marriage (TM), to denote the difference the generic and the real thing.
That’s “Vise-grips.” Different language root from vice-sin.