i believe, that is why i defended the right of the boy scouts to discriminate against gay scoutmasters, even though i think the policy is abhorrent, because i believe once you accept the principle that a private group cannot discriminate against people it decides for its own particular reason, whatever the reason is, then the groups are most vulnerable from government interference are the ones that are the smallest. gay people among them. the right of the nazis or kkk to walk down the street under the first amendment is indistinguishable from the right of the drag queen to walk proudly down the street in the gay pride parade. i want to defend both of them, not because one of them as good and one is bad, because both of them are acts of freedom. if we start, as gay people, infringing upon the first amendment, the fundamental right to say what and be who we are, we will finally be the victims because there are not that many of us. we will be the people who are the victims of this kind of intimidation. i also believe for those reasons we should be extremely careful in enacting equality fo