Marriage

Matt Browne wrote: We should respect people who decide not to get married. We should certainly not call them the "worst people" of a nation in my opinion.

Matt,
you have right to your opinion, but what is said above is Islamic understanding based in Quran and Sunnah. Your, mine or Tom's opinion does not alter nor move it.
Marriage is the only way for two adults of opposite sex to come in contact with each other. Anything else will be against the will of God. We are best of God's creation, and God has given us best of rules to conduct our lives to distinguish us from lesser in degree of His creation.

Others can compromise, change, alter, or leave their religious teachings to ever changing new ideas, but in Islam only God has such authority, if God decide to give us new rules or to change the existing ones He will let us know which means never as what we have with us is the Final Testament (the Quran), no new revelation will follow it.
Hasan

We should respect people who decide not to get married. We should certainly not call them the "worst people" of a nation in my opinion.