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Famed economist Thomas Sowell has written: “Despite attempts to equate married couples with people who are living together as ‘domestic partners,’ married couples are in fact better off than unmarried couples, by almost any standard you can think of.”
Timothy S. Goeglein is the vice president of government and external relations at Focus on the Family and the co-author of the new book “What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family” (Fidelis, 2026).