[Nhfulmer]

This thread keeps talking about "not discriminating". Everytime a chapter decides to "cut" a PNM, they are discriminating. We choose our members based on the fact that they will fit in with the chapter. If the required number of sisters or brothers (varies from group to group) votes to cut a PNM, that is it!!! It was based on some type of discrimination and is the right of each chapter. If you have a brother or sister who comes out after he/she is already initiated, then my feeling is that the chapter stands by him/her BUT when it is a PNM, it is different. At that point, the chapter has the right to choose and let's face it -- it is always based on discrimination of some kind. If a PNM is cut, it is because the chapter doesn't like something about the person and if it should happen to be his sexual orientation, so be it! You are forgetting our right to choice of members!! Not one single person is guaranteed the right to membership. When our bylaws forbid discrimination based on race, religion, etc., that is across the board; however, we can discriminate based on the individual. Right or wrong -- that's a fact!