Complex sentence: While the plaintiffs had asked Tauro to find that sexual orientation was a a suspect class and therefore properly treated with strict scrutiny, Tauro's finding that Section 3 was unconsitutional on rational basis grounds, he did not address the question of whether heightened scrutiny was warranted.
Split into simpler sentences: While the plaintiffs had asked Tauro to find that sexual orientation was a suspect class and therefore properly treated with strict scrutiny, Tauro's found that Section 3 was unconstitutional on rational basis grounds. He did not address the question of whether heightened scrutiny was warranted.