If you want to challenge DOMA, don't argue equal protection

[CRYINGWOLFOWITZ]

The supreme court wont give gays the status of "suspect class" like it does women and blacks. Therefore laws against gays will probably be upheld if changed over equal protection issues. If you want gay marriage legal, you take the Defense of Marriage Act to the SCOTUS and have them strike it down as unconstitutional. Why? Because of the full faith and credit clause of the constitution. It says:
<<Section 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. >>
Therefore if gay marriage is legal in one state, say CA or MA, it is legal everywhere. But DOMA says that states don't have to recognize gay marriages in other states. DOMA conflicts with the full faith and credit clause. The SCOTUS has been sympathetic to gays (Lawerance) based on other reasons, such as right to privacy, but not equal protection. The equal proptection argument is uphill. If you want to challenge DOMA and make gay marriage legal everywhere, attack it on full faith and credit grounds.