Chasing clicks? Write something about Taylor Swift. Yes, that’s what I just did. So did leading conservative publication National Review Online. Kathryn Jean Lopez used her TSwift post to focus on a potential unintended positive consequence of the pop superstar’s recent announcement of major personal news.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, August 26, history paused.
All commentary focused on an engagement. All eyes looked to a garden and a football player, who took a different kind of knee.
The Taylor Swift–Travis Kelce duo is a bit of a throwback in our odd times (when even Zoom meetings sometimes ask for pronouns). The New York Times wedding section isn’t just for brides and grooms anymore.
More importantly: We live at a time when people are afraid of marriage. When Pope Francis supposedly upended the concept of marriage in the Catholic Church — and decided what to do with divorced and remarried Catholics — he expressed his concern that people no longer want to get married. They don’t know if they are capable of it. They don’t know if it is possible for them. That might be our greatest marriage problem.
God bless Brad Wilcox, for one, who has been encouraging marriage, and all its benefits, in his social-science work. Catherine Pakaluk, too, for another. Tim Carney for a trinity.
But there is nothing like a pop star and an NFL player to make an old-school concept like love and marriage contagious. May they be blessed with babies the natural way, if it is God’s will for them. Hope and well wishes for the couple and for our culture is evident in posts by pro-life leaders. …
… I do pray that this prediction comes true:
“Expect a spike in marriage. Taylor & Travis put a ring on it.”
And that going back to December is forever in Miss Swift’s past.
Congratulations. Keep the engagement short. A nation needs to get back to work, after all.
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