in Brause v. State, Dep't of Health & Soc. Servs., 21 P.3d 357, 360 (Alaska 2001), challenged its constitutionality, but because we held that their claim was not ripe for adjudication, we did not consider the statute's constitutionality. Id. Its constitutionality was not raised in ACLU. 41 . AS 25.05.013 was enacted in 1996. Ch. 21, § 2, SLA 1996. The legislature in 1998 adopted the resolution that proposed the Marriage Amendment. - Voters approved the Marriage Amendment in 1998. S.J. Res. 42, 20th Leg., 2d Sess. (Alaska 1998). 42 . - As we observed in ACLU, a state constitutional amendment that expressly denied benefits to same-sex couples would arguably offend the federal Constitution. 122 P.3d at 786 n. 20 (citing Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620, 116 S.Ct. 1620, 134 L.Ed.2d 855 (1996) (<HOLDING>)). 43 . The published statement supporting
holding that a colorado amendment prohibiting legislative judicial or executive action designed to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination violated the equal protection clause holding that the due process clause contained in the colorado constitution encompasses a guarantee of equal protection holding that the multicounty signature requirement for initiatives violated the uniform operation of laws clause and the federal equal protection clause holding that an amendment to the colorado constitution that repealed all local and statewide laws prohibiting sexualorientation discrimination violated the federal equal protection clause holding the exclusion did not violate the equal protection clause of the wyoming constitution or the fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution