But they kept their marriage together, and a lot of the Republicans who have condemned them and who talkabout their platform of family values, interestingly, didn't keep their own families together.
"There has been a realisation among college-educated Americans that marriage is actually a pretty good idea, even if they don't like to talkabout it in public, " argues Bradford Wilcox.
's 2012 presidential nominee, Governor Mitt Romney, declared that his campaign was "not going to talkabout" the Left's attempt to punish the owners of Chick-fil-A for their stand on gay marriage.