A recent poll shows voters favoring the amendment 54 percent to 26 percent. That debate echoes our own. It is because these issues are so personal that social change shouldn't be imposed arbitrarily. The Colorado amendment risks doing precisely that. No one knows.
Good law promotes clarity and certainty.
Both invite unintended consequences. The new language is so vague that no state bureaucrat or school official might alter any current policy. The amendment's supporters would then rightly feel incensed that they had been misled. Many objections might be mutually exclusive. If complaints weren't settled, the aggrieved could flock to courts.