This writes a flat equal-treatment rule into the constitution: government may neither penalize nor prefer anyone by race, sex, or ethnicity in its hiring, schooling, and contracting. Supporters, like Sen. Stephen Nass, put it bluntly — preferential treatment of any group is wrong, full stop. Opponents, like Sen. Dora Drake, counter that a blanket ban also removes tools used to remedy real, documented discrimination. So the cost is a genuine trade: even-handedness as an unbending rule versus targeted remedies that themselves sort by the very categories at issue. Scripture's standard for a judge is no respect of persons — neither the poor nor the mighty. Decide which reading of that this measure serves.
"Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty."
— Leviticus 19:15 (KJV)