What Gallup gets wrong about marriage

Gallup published a welcome contribution to the growing realization that the decline of marriage is harming the nation last week, noting that while the institution has suffered among Democrats and Republicans, it is the Democratic Party that is leading the institution’s decline.

“After decades of little partisan difference,” Gallup notes, “a gap in the marriage rates of Republicans and Democrats cracked open in the 1980s and has widened in the past quarter century.”