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The late James Q. Wilson wrote in his essay, “Why We Don’t Marry,” that “marriage was once a sacrament, then it became a contract, and now it is an arrangement.”
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).