So do their rights, as clearly and unequivocally as the rights of any other human beings. Gays and lesbians need and demand to organize in their own interest and defense. Their existence, like their needs and rights, will not conveniently vanish because the law elects to close its eyes to them. Justice must be blind to prejudice, influence, and fear. It must not be blind to the lives and reality of the human beings it serves.
Associations working against discrimination enhance rather than threaten the latter interests.
Moreover, the Minister's decision, reliant as it is on the assertion of an arbitrary power, stands utterly opposed to the needs and procedures of a democratic society. Associations working against discrimination enhance rather than threaten the latter interests.