Romer v. Evans

In Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620, 632-33, 134 L. Ed. 2d 855, 116 S. Ct. 1620 (1996), the Court addressed an equal protection challenge to Colorado's "Amendment 2" to its constitution, which prohibited all legislative, executive, or judicial action designed to protect homosexual persons from discrimination. 517 U.S. at 624. The Court held that Amendment 2 did not bear a rational relation to a legitimate end due to its "peculiar property of imposing a broad and undifferentiated disability on a single named group," with a breadth "so discontinuous with the reasons offered for it that the amendment seems inexplicable by anything but animus toward the class it affects." Id. at 632.