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I agree, it would be a real pain in the ass. Most things worthwhile are.
I wouldn't really care about the word marriage either, except that it so often seems like such a straw man argument. Just once i want someone to just come out and say, "Look, gay people make me uncomfortable and i feel like them being able to use the word marriage would somehow mean that my hetero-relationship would have something in common with a homosexual relationship, which is something i can't deal with." That would be lovely, but nobody is going to say that because a) it's not p.c. and b) it is either a very simplistic argument and easily exposed as irrational or people generally percieve it as very simplistic argument and easily exposed as irrational.
There is seemingly no personal responsibility in any argument against gay marriage. There is only the: i'm no homophobe, but __________. Fill in the blank with tradition, or diction, or some undefinable threat to society lurking ominously just beyond the horizon. At this point i can only vaguely summarize all of the anti-gay marriage arguments that i have heard, because every time i ask for clarification i'm left hanging or the terms of the debate are changed. In short, the arguments sound good until you put them to some kind of critical test, and then they collapse.
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