ON MARRIAGE: Maggie Gallagher makes some good points about marriage and how important it is for the government to start promoting it in today's NRO. I think she's a little harsh on other conservatives like Kate O'Beirne though -- stigmatizing single-motherhood seems to me like it would fit hand-in-glove with encouraging married motherhood. But how did we get to the point where promoting marriage became a social necessity, anyway?