Legal Quote by Stephanie Coontz

Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to…

— Stephanie Coontz

Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.

— Monica Johnson

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who…

— Stephanie Coontz

“Private relationships, intimate and otherwise, might be structured in many different ways, and the simple dichotomy between “single” and “married” does not do justice…

— Richard H. Thaler

“Those who say marriage is no different to cohabitation are perhaps less sensitive to issues of continuity. Legally and socially, marriage provided us with…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

— Phyllis Schlafly

The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't…

— Scott Lively

Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

— Rick Santorum

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time,…

— Mitt Romney

If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or…

— Gary Bauer

“Unlike the Old Testament, in which singleness was not a good, the New Testament—or, more properly, the coming of Christ—opens up, for the first…

— Preston Sprinkle

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

— Stephen Marche