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Originally posted by AXWhoah
Okay well I am gonna speak up for those of us who WOULD be uncomfortable with a gay woman in our sorority. I refuse to believe that this makes me a bad person. It's not that I don't think that gay people are perfectly wonderful human beings it's just that I don't really agree with their lifestyle. Like I said before, it makes me uncomfortable. I mean I have had gay friends (okay well one, and really only an aquaintance) but I'd be open to the oppertunity as having them as a friend but not as a sister. My sisters range in enicity from black to white to indian, in religion from aethist to catholic to jewish, and every body type imaginable so I don't want to hear about how I am closed minded. And I can say with almost 100% certainty that on my campus having a lesbian member would kill your reputation. But that's just how it is on my campus.
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I am going to speak up and agree with you here. I don't think my chapter would necessarily reject a girl solely b/c she was gay but then again we've never been in that situation. However last semester there were some rumors floating around the house that such and such girl did something with this girl and they both claimed to be openly bisexual. Now one of those girls has since left our house and I know that the majority of people that know about this other girl and her sexuality are a quite uncomfortable with it. And this is just bisexuality we're talking about here. I too think that on
*my particular campus* that if you had one very active and openly gay member you would quickly become known as the "lesbian sorority" but that is just the way my campus is. And other people who go to my school may not agree with me. I have only met one guy in a fraternity down here who was openly gay and absolutely no openly gay sorority girls. I really don't honestly know how my sisters would handle it but I think it would be rough b/c I know many girls wouldn't want to get that stigma attached to our name. It's very confusing and while some people have certain opinions a lot of times we have to act in the manner that seems to be best for the well being of our sorority as a whole. But like I said, my campus is different from all of yours, we have a competitive greek system and things like this can make or break you and I'd hate to lose my chapter b/c of something like this.
And AXWoah...thanks for speaking up.
