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BUT-- "Morality" is not easily defined.
What is moral to me, may not be to someone else, and vice versa. And I don't think even within our GLOs its defined well.
Which is the issue--that Nationals can "look the other way" for some members, and revoke membership for others.
Campus climate is a factor too. Perhaps a larger one.
Where I went to school I don't see this as being an issue. (I speak of the times when I was there, I don't know how it is now)
Being in Los Angeles, being in a liberal city, county and state, being so close to Hollywood. I don't think it would have been an issue. If the member didn't say "I'm an XYZ!" in the publication, chances are very few eyebrows would be raised. Not when the entire student body (gross exagerration) has their own headshots and is not so secretly seeking their big break... Not when our "Greek Legend" yearbook features pages and pages of girls in their bikinis... etc.
So if no one at your school thinks its a big deal, chances are the issue would not be raised with nationals... etc.
But I am with ErikaXO on this issue. I don't see the big deal, and I don't think someone else, ie" founders back in the late 1800's can decide what my morality in 2002 should be. Use common sense, do what is right for you, what portrays you in the best light, and by doing that, you will be portraying your GLO well in 99 out of 100 cases.
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