The State of Alabama Passes a Statute Which Requires That

The state of Alabama passes a statute which requires that male heirs be preferred over female heirs in selecting an executor of an estate. Laura, a lawyer, would like to be the executor of her father's estate, but so would her eighteen-year-old brother who just flunked out of college. She challenges the provision as being a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case is now under consideration by Alabama's highest court. In deciding the constitutionality of the provision, the court will:

A) apply the rational relationship test.
B) apply the strict scrutiny test.
C) apply the intermediate standard test.
D) create a new test