HBGL Members: Do We Have To Be Tolerant? (Same Rules Apply)

[SummerChild]

I was reading the thread about Sensuret I in the Alpha Phi Alpha forum and various responses and began thinking of this question:

It is good, in and of itself, to be tolerant of the various lifestyles of members within our BGLO organizations?
Do we feel that we should accept the behavior of each of our members in order to be good members ourselves?
Is it a matter of whether we agree with the behavior?

I began to wonder this b/c whenever anyone says anything about a gay person in any of the BGLO frats, there is always the line drawn between the argument that the person makes the frat look bad and therefore shouldn't carry on or at least shouldn't claim the frat when doing so vs. people should be able to do whatever they want b/c it's a free world and people are bad if they don't accept what other people do in their lives. Which is it?

Of course, I'm simplifying both sides.

What do the BGLO members think? I specifically asked what BGLO *members* think b/c I think that when you know what it is to love an organization by being a member, it seems that you feel this issue for your organization most intently and that is what I'm asking about. Not the theorists. The real live BGLO members.


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