Raise the Bar
CommentsDuring the Prop. 8 campaign, one important point raised by opponents of the initiative including myself is that it is far too easy to amend the California Constitution. (On this blog, I called the threshold “shockingly low.”) Whatever one thinks of same-sex marriage, it shouldn’t be a controversial notion that constitutional amendments require supermajorities and not 50 percent plus one.
So, I would encourage Californians to raise the bar for amending the state’s constitution by popular vote from 50 percent to 60 percent, at least. The problem is, of course, that many of the same people who wanted to raise the threshold during the fall campaign are now planning a new initiative to overturn Prop. 8 and they only want a 50 percent bar to get their repeal passed.
DB: “The problem is, of course, that many of the same people who wanted to raise the threshold during the fall campaign are now planning a new initiative to overturn Prop. 8 and they only want a 50 percent bar to get their repeal passed.”
That’s a rather cheap shot.
let’s see. . . raise the bar. . .like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNiqfRyoAyA
Not cheap. The shot hit its mark because use the double-standard is the SSM campaign’s best friend.