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Someone said this earlier, we should all agree to disagree. There are some of us who may never be comfortable having a gay sister. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't hire her for a job if she were the best for it or even that I wouldn't be her friend. When it comes to something as personal and inimate as sisterhood there are just some lines that some of us have to draw. You cannot make someone comfortable with lesbianism just because you tell them they are small minded and when I am around my sisters I NEED to be at my highest comfort level. And people talk about diversity and I do appreciate a certain level of diversity but at the end of the day I want to be surrounded by people who have SOMETHING in common with me. It's one of the reasons I went Alpha Chi over another chapter that I felt was just as wonderful but I didn't feel like I had anything in common with them.
Someone said something about the Bible never explicitly saying that being gay was wrong but the whole thing about Christian religion is that it's built upon interpretation of the Bible. I mean that's one of the reasons there isn't just Chrisitianity but Catholics, Lutherans, Seventh Day Adventists, etc. And so some people do interpret the Bible as saying that sort of lifestyle is wrong. And finally, as far as I have ever seen homosexuality is more of a moral issue than an objective issue with concrete rights and wrongs. So how can you tell someone that they're wrong and closed-minded when there actually isn't a right or wrong, but just opinions. Or how can you ask someone to compromise their own morals for what you deem as right when again there isn't right or wrong. Basically what I am trying to say (and I'm sorry, I know I rambled) is that it's really great if you believe in having all kinds of gay women in your chapter and you have some. Maybe that's one of the reasons you felt at home there. But I should also be allowed to have my own opinions and to feel at home in a chapter that maybe isn't so forward thinking without feeling berated or somehow not as good of a person as the rest of you.
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