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look at culture from a Christian worldview. I'm John Stone Street with the point. In all of the words flying around online during this current political season, very little is being said about the importance of marriage and family as the central factor to societal health.

This is a particularly glaring omission with notable exceptions during the Republican primary.

Dan Darling put it this way, quote, one thing strangely absent from the GOP primary is any conversation

about how to help bolster marriage and family, economically, socially, etc.

It's a huge issue, and there's almost zero conversation about it from the candidates.

Huge missed opportunity.

Well, to talk about social stresses like crime and identity confusion

and mental and emotional distress and the addiction crisis and other things

while not addressing the importance of the family

is to mistake the fruits and the root.

The think these issues can be addressed by money or by lawmaking alone is a form of

the political illusion. This idea that all problems are political

and all problems have political solutions. In fact, the best way to address most

political problems is upstream from politics. For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.