based on “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin,” 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2, the Fourteenth Amendment contains no such limiting language. See iscrimination based on homosexuality is subject only to rational basis review. See Richenberg v. Perry, 97 F.3d 256, 260-61 (8th Cir.1996) (stating that under rational basis review, a claimant has the burden to demonstrate that the challenged government conduct is “not rationally related to any legitimate government purpose”). Nevertheless, a claimant’s failure to prove membership in a suspect class does not automatically deprive him of any cognizable constitutional claim as defendant suggests, but instead merely lowers the standard under which the conduct at issue must be scrutinized. See City of Cleburne, 473 U.S. at 446, 105 S.Ct. 3249 (<HOLDING>). In Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620, 116 S.Ct.
holding that convicted sex offenders are not a suspect class holding group published doctrine does not apply to  oral remarks of other individuals recognizing that strict scrutiny applies to facial discrimination against a suspect class holding that a courts refusal to recognize a group of individuals as a suspect class does not leave them entirely unprotected from invidious discrimination holding that kentucky does not recognize any inherent right to local government