It is an criminal offense, one that is correctable by marriage. In healthier times it was on the books as a crime.
In today’s culture it is the innocent child born out of wedlock, without a dad, that we sentenced to a life of poverty and bitterness. To a much higher chance of becoming a criminal, a hazard and burden to society.
Around 6:30, he went off on a libertarian riff, tearing into crimes against society, crimes that he claims had no victims. He gave as examples laws against adultery and fornication, which are in fact, still on the books in Massachusetts. (You can get three years for adultery, six months for fornication.)
I think of myself as a libertarian, but I find I must disagree with Mr. Nelson. Society is the victim of crimes against society. As one who remembers what this country was like 50 years ago, I am not at all sanguine about the changes. The consequences of casual sex and fragile marriages are all around us and they are not good. We all suffer.