....some folks would view the fact that there weren't editorial discussions put forth in the magazine on this issue prior to the magazine ballot insertion and full membership vote would favor the passage of the amendment.

Your post rings of haunting familiarity. The people voting don't really know what they were voting for because the ballot was confusing. There's an agenda behind the confusing ballot. Sounds like Florida in the general election all over again, even with the preemptive strike about why you lost if you should lose before it happened.

Bob