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(2) Limitation of protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage to individuals of opposite sexes lacked rational basis and violated state constitutional equal protection principles.
State interest: (1) providing a favorable setting for procreation, (2) ensuring the optimal setting for child rearing, and (3) preserving scarce State and financial resources. (4) avoid interstate conflict Answers: (1) Fertility is not a condition of marriage, no privileged form of intimacy or means of creating a family; (2) best interest of the child does not depend on parents sexual orientation, marital children reap a measure of family stability and economic security; (3) not true that same sex couples are more financially independent, benefits do not depend WON couples are financially dependent on each other. (4) each state is independent Barred access to the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage for the same sex couples arbitrarily deprives them of membership in one of our communitys most rewarding and cherished institutions; this exclusion is incompatible with the constitutional principles of respect for individual autonomy and equality under the law. Regulatory authority must serve a legitimate purpose in a rational way. Relief: refine common law meaning of marriage.