, Columnist
Liberals Are Rescuing Marriage
Liberals are doing a better job than conservatives of redefining marriage, focused stable relationships centered around raising children.
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When we think about the issues of family, sex, and morality there's a standard story that frames our thinking. Ross Douthat, writing back in January, did a good job of telling that story:
It seems obvious that sexual permissiveness discourages marriage. In the old days, marital sex was the only socially acceptable kind of sex, so if you wanted to have sex, you had to get married; allow people to have sex outside of marriage with no social sanction, and you take away a big part of the impetus to get married. Liberal values, therefore, are corrosive to families.