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After reading 4 pages of this, I couldn't read everything before I posted (I do have finals I need to study for) but I figured I should represent what appears to be a minority, and that is a member of a chapter that welcomes gays. At first I thought it was because our campus is gay-friendly, but of the 10 houses on campus, we have gays, one house is VERY gay friendly (and in fact one of their gay members was just elected Greek Council president for the next year), and maybe one other has an openly gay member or two but other than that I would venture the rest have never even had an openly gay member. Our chapter adviser for the last 3 years is an openly gay alumnus. We live in a house, but it has never been an issue. We've had our gay brothers bring guys as their dates to formal, one of them has boyfriend he's been dating pretty much all year, and I always see him around the house and he's good friends with a lot of brothers. We've had at least one openly gay president, and many e-board positions have been filled by our gay brothers, including rush chair.
It's weird to me that someone could immediately say that because someone is gay their interests and ideologies automatically won't match up. As people have alluded to, there are lot of sexual fetishes out there, and I would venture that most people don't let what they do in the bedroom affect them too much. If you say that since gays have to live with ridicule, that it makes them different people, well then maybe if we don't ridicule them, they won't be so psychologically traumatized by the fact that they are gay.
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