Mark Leno on Prop 8

Equal protection is a foundational stone of our constitutional democracy. The drafters of our constitution understood clearly that minority rights would be at risk if undermining equal protection for them was considered a mere amendment. So, to protect the minority, the drafters of the constitution set a higher bar for revising the constitution; a revision is a radical or significant change to it. Undermining equal protection would be considered a radical or significant change.

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