New Book on Marriage Deliberately Ignores Gay Couples
Are we saving civilization yet?
Today, Brad Wilcox released a book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization. He’s connected to the American Enterprise Institute and has directed the National Marriage Project for 15 years. In the book, he counts himself among “churchgoing Catholics” and says his “social circle…leans right.” I had not heard of him before and only learned of the book on its launch day through an advertisement.
Especially because, given the anti-LGBTQ climate in the United States, there are renewed efforts to overturn gay marriage, I wanted to follow up on what arguments and language are being used in 2024.
No Gay People in This Book
Early on, I noticed a sentence in which Wilcox declares he’ll focus on “heterosexual married men and women ages eighteen to fifty-five,” mostly parents. Why no gay couples? Because the numbers of gay married parents are so negligible, he says, it’s hard to do stats on them: “less than 1 percent of married families with children in America are headed by same-sex parents.”
