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"Marriage is fracturing in America," with educated couples embracing it even as middle-class and working-class couples are abandoning it, Institute for American Values (IAV) board members David Blankenhorn, Jonathan Rauch, William A. Galston and Francis Fukuyama said in a statement. But despite this national crisis, people remain "riveted" on the debate about gay marriage, they said. That gay-marriage conversation "is at a dead end," they said. "We propose a new conversation that brings together gays and lesbians who want to strengthen marriage with straight people who want to do the same" ... The institute's call to action plays to its strengths – it has centers that examine healthy families, thrifty living and civil society. The group takes no official, corporate stance on gay marriage, but social-conservative groups were skeptical of Tuesday's announcement.