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Originally Posted by Senusret I
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Exactly.
Even groups with no anti-discrimination policies who have no "out to the group" members are likely to have had gay or lesbian members in the past and maybe in the present.
But I don't know how effective anti-discrimination clauses are anyway because the actual membership standards used to assemble a particular new members class are often so subjective as to be inarticulable. No matter what the national standards are, I think all of them rely to some degree on the interaction between PNMs and current members, and awareness of a pnms sexual orientation, if it makes the present member uncomfortable, is likely to make him or her think the pnm's "fit" for the organization isn't right.
I'm not defending this practice, and I believe that members of an organization with anti-discrimination clauses should always internally check themselves to make sure that it's not their own prejudice creeping in, but expecting all undergraduate members to carefully evaluate themselves about one particular PNM in a recruitment with a ton of pnms might be asking more than it seems at first.
In a COB situation or with NPHC intake, you really might be considering a person as an individual on a deep individual level. In a big formal recruitment, not so much.