“Marriage is up to them.” Legally and practically, you are correct. However, no one lives in a vacuum, which means that making decisions based only on what the parties directly involved want would be unchristian. I know many people who had shotgun weddings because they were thinking beyond just what they (the bride and groom) wanted to do; they considered what would be best for the child, their families, and society.
If the new standard is, marriage is optional and you can do whatever you want, so long as you don’t have an abortion, then count me out. Not killing your baby is brave and I laud Bristol Palin for, as Greg Gutfeld on Fox said, choosing humiliation over convenience, but the bar must be raised. Bristol Palin and the father of this baby should marry and commit themselves to the child(ren). (If the father of the child is refusing to marry Bristol, then I have even more sympathy for her.)
No one said it is a standard. But what exactly would you like them to do now? They can’t fix it.
I guess you already answered my question. You want them to marry. I don’t have enough details to know. I have to stay with it is their decision. Sure the children need a mother and a father. But a broken home with peace is sometimes better than a together one with war.