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St. Johns Law R eview olume 82 Article 3 Issue 4 Volume 82, Fall 2008, Number 4 February 2012 Same-Sex Marriage: A Threat to Tiered Equal Protection Doctrine? Randall P. Ewing Jr. Follow this and additional works at : /lawreview Recommended Citation Ewing, R andall P. Jr. (2012) Same-Sex Marriage: A Threat to Tiered Equal Protection Doctrine?, St. Johns Law Review: ol. 82: Iss. 4, Article 3. Available at : /lawreview/vol82/iss4/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at St. Johns Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in St. J ohns Law R eview by an authorized administrator of St. Johns Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact cerjanm@. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: A THREAT TO TIERED EQUAL PROTECTION DOCTRINE? RANDALL P. EWING, JR.! INTRODUCTION 1409 I. FEDERAL EQUAL PROTECTION DOCTRINE 1412 A . Criticism s 1412 B. Proposed Alternatives 1416 II. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE UNDER TIERED ANALYSIS 1418 A. Andersen v. King County 1418 B. Hernandez v. Robles 1421 C. Conaw ay v. Deane 1423 D. The Failure of Tiered Analysis 1424 1. Analytical Flaw s 1424 2. D octrinal Flaw s 1427 III. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE UNDER UNITARY ANALYSIS 1432 A . Lew is v. Harris 1432 B . Baker v. State 1434 C. Success of Unitary Analysis 1435 IV. A BETTER WAY 1441 CON CLU SION 1446 INTRODUCTION Recent same-se