protection. Equal Protection The equal protection clause of United States Constitution provides that “no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1; see also S.C. Const, art. I, § 3. If a statutory provision “does not involve a suspect classification or a fundamental right, ... the question under equal protection analysis is whether the legislation is rationally related to a legitimate state purpose.” Curtis v. State, 345 S.C. 557, 574, 549 S.E.2d 591, 600 (2001). Appellant argues that the state has deprived him of his fundamental right to privacy, and therefore that the court should apply the strict scrutiny analysis. See Clark v. Jeter, 486 U.S. 456, 461, 108 S.Ct. 1910, 1914, 100 L.Ed.2d 465, 471 (1988) (<HOLDING>). Although the U.S. Supreme Court has
holding racebased affirmative action subject to strict judicial scrutiny and noting that to the extent if any that fullilove held federal racial classifications to be subject to a less rigorous standard it is no longer controlling holding accent discrimination may be actionable as national origin discrimination under title vii citing with approval eeoc guidelines defining national origin discrimination to include discrimination based on the linguistic characteristics of a national origin group holding that texas twoyear statute of limitations applied to section 1981 action for discrimination on the basis of national origin holding that custody decision based on race is not justified recognizing that strict scrutiny is applied to classifications based on race or national origin and classifications affecting fundamental rights