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Optimist, let me tell you where I'm coming from on this one.
Pi Beta Phi was started by Christian women and has a very Christian ritual. When I was a new member, there was a very big stink. The sorority had pledged some non-Christian women and those women wanted our ritual changed. They went to Convention and raised Cain about it and their motion to remove all Christian references was soundly defeated.
A few chapters had sided with them and I can still remember out president describing the horrible, divisive meetings. It was some time before the rifts were healed. The same thing happened to at least 2 other sororities, I can't remember which 2, in the seventies.
The women who have said that you need to know what you're getting into beforehand were correct. Don't pledge a group and then tear them up trying to change what they hold dear.
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