I have to tell you that having watched the evolution of marriage over the course of my life, it is an institution desperately in need of re-thinking. Notwithstanding the protests of linguists and philosophers who will argue that you can't simply change the meaning of a word, the idea is so completely out of touch with people's actions and the laws and norms governing our lives, that something has to give. On bad days it is hard not see the whole thing as either, at best, the picture of wishful thinking or, at worst, of hypocrisy.