Gay marriage

The Supreme Court is currently ruling in the issue of gay marriage and I am somewhat confused by the whole issue. For years I have read articles about the importance of a father in the home. Experts agree that daughters gain in self-esteem and sons have role models when dad participates in raising children. Now I am told that two mommies can do just as good a job. On a regular basis experts come out with statistics showing that major problems in the inner city are directly related to the lack of fathers in the home. Will this problem be solved by replacing the missing father with a second mother? I am in favor of gay marriage based on the equal protection clause but it raises some important questions. The two phrases most often heard are one, that people should be allowed to marry whom they love and two, what two people do in the privacy of their bedroom is no one’s business as long as no one gets hurt. Will these same principals apply to three people? Is bigamy the next civil right? A few years ago I wrote in a somewhat factious manner about the advantages of two women being married. How they could share the house work and go shopping together. With current technology they could have children using the sperm bank so they could be a family. On a regular basis articles appear showing the decline in boys school work and the rise in the work of girls. While early development in language skills, have always given girls a head start more recently things like video games have exacerbated the problem and add to that the girls are more attentive to things like homework. This has led to the current situation where 57% of college students are women. Women now are represented in equal numbers in professional schools like medicine and law and over represented in graduate school. While all this has been going on the past ten years showed a 50% increase in the number of boys diagnosed as having attention deficit disorder. The result of the drugs given to these boys has increased other medical problems. All of these problems with boys are further exaggerated if you look at the inner city schools. Did the changes in the laws that allowed single moms to have access to financial aid aggravate things? Does the fact that the number of single black moms increased from 25% to 75% since these changes were introduced have any bearing on these boys? I believe that many of these issues are interconnected and need further study. Beware of unintended consequences!