SIGarmed,
Yeah, I hear what you're saying.
I think, too, that a lot of what drives the anti movement is plain old fear. These are fearful people we're talking about, people who want everything to be under control because they're afraid what will happen if it's not. This is true of the laws they want to pass, and I think in many (not all) cases, it's true in their personal lives as well. It's not so much that they want to run others' lives, but that they are fearful of what would happen if others ran their own lives (an important distinction).
Anyway, if the driving force is fear, of course they are afraid of what would happen if their board were open to the public. They are afraid of being insulted, threatened, and personally attacked. And, quite frankly, I think past history gives them some reason to be fearful -- given that many of them define "attacked" as, "someone didn't affirm what I said and agree with me."
pax
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson