A valid argument but one that the media never even entertained, the idea of a legal relationship with it’s own definition and name.
Now we will have to create a new word for “marriage”, when we are talking about real marriage, so that the normal people can still talk daily about weddings and marriages without having to wade through clarifications and the same questions over and over.
Ca already had a registered domestic partner law on the books so they had equality as far as any gov’t issue in CA already, but they had to take over the word marriage.