But the writer Gail Sheehy suggested that Mrs. Schlafly had used marriage to liberate herself from paying jobs.
Would I have used marriage as a cover, as a sizable majority of Indian homosexuals still do?
The other expert quoted is Howard Markman, the co-founder of one of the most widely used marriage education courses.
From 1998 until now, the religious right has used marriage as a wedge issue to put anti-LGBT laws and state constitutional amendments on the ballot.
But the politics of gay rights are not what they were a decade ago, when George W. Bush's reelection campaign used marriage as a wedge issue to help win in key swing states where constitutional same-sex marriage bans were on the ballot.
Lang was one of many who used marriage proposals for the nightly request (Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's 1756 retelling was the first), but Villeneuve was under no illusions about the story's undertones.
Of course, it may not be fair to use marriage as the measure of a happy outcome.
Some conservative groups said they were already making plans to use marriage as part of their outreach efforts.
The woman asked to file a criminal complaint against him for cheating her by using marriage as a ruse.
Using marriage law to promote procreation was a tricky rationale, too, since no state had ever forbidden sterile or elderly couples from marrying.
