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Thank you. Why has the Democratic Party largely captive to its most progressive leftist ideologues?

Why has it gone silent and sometimes even hostile on the subject of

marriage and the family? Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about

the need for pro-marriage, pro-family Democrats. DeLano Squires, he's director of the DeVos Center for

Life, Religion, and Family at the Heritage Foundation.

He holds a master's of public policy degree from George Washington University,

and he's author of a recent column for the Institute for Family Studies, titled the Conservative Case for More Pro-Marriage Democrats.

Delano, welcome back.

Thank you for having me.

You called President Barack Obama the last pro-marriage Democrats. Delano, welcome back. Thank you for having me. You called President Barack Obama the last pro-marriage Democrat. What do you mean? Well, President Obama, well,

then candidate Obama in 2008, when asked by Rick Warren how he defines marriage, said

that he defined it as between a man and a woman

and went on to say that, you know, God is in the mix, as he put it.

He's actually the last presidential candidate to come into office with that definition.

Obviously, he changed his view, supported Obergefell and same-sex marriage.

But one of the things that I think makes him stand out is that he's the last elected Democrat,

particularly a national office I can think of, who regularly connected family structure to social outcomes.

So when he was on the south side of Chicago in 2013,

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