11/28 Why is "Marriage" Such a Sacred Term?

While doing more research on the tie-in with Religion in Gay Marriage, I found one parallel that runs along all major organized religions of today. There seems to be either an ambiguity or pure condemnation of the term "marriage".

A lot of religions (Reform Judaism, Episcopalian Christianity, Hinduism) allow gay couples to unite under the doctrine of their religion, or perhaps are missing the clause not to. However, there is one complete problem with their institution of "marriage", and that's the fact that they don't even reference it as such.



I'm really confused as to why this is happening, because these religions have gone to all of this trouble to make marriage work. Why does a word mean so much to them? I'll have to do a bit more work to figure this one out.