Using Frat to further personal agendas

[The Cushite]

With the recent debate about Sensuret I's book , I think this board can be helped with a more focused critique of the issue many brothers had with him. It seems as though, in his zeal to promote his book, he latently associated Alpha with the normalizing of the gay lifestyle. Now before this thread gets banned, I want to state clearly that I AM NOT HERE TO DEMEAN ANY BROTHERS WHO MAY BE GAY. I want to discuss with the brothers on this forum the issue of using the frat to further personal agendas.

I think brothers should be aware that people in society are competing for the minds of others in the midst of a society that has found itself in the middle of a post modern maylaise. We don't know what to believe anymore. What is truth/ What is right ? These things are constantly being challenged by people, and we have others who are challenging the challenges so to speak by defending traditional values and norms. In this war of ideas, people use whatever they can to see to find stability in this world. Some have resorted in trying to normalize ideas or values that to this point in our social psyche have been deemed unacceptable. One sure way to normalize an idea is to entrench it in an institution (Like Alpha). I think that is what Bro. Sensuret did, although I think he did it latently or unintentionally.

As brothers of a deeper and wider brotherhood than can't be defined by one brother's values or ideas, we have to be cogniscent of the fact that Alpha has it's own principles and values and that we would be irresponsible to represent it in any other way than what the Jewels intended. Whether it is homosexuality, promiscuity, lying, cheating, stealling, frivolity, drunkeness or even mandating that All brothers be Christian; all of these are misrepresentations. To try to normalize them by associating them with Alpha is selfish and divisive (as we saw with the issue with Bro. Sensuret). Though individual brothers may deem one better than the other, Alpha is not about any of those things. So brothers, I urge you to be critical of how each of us represents Alpha, and though there are many things that I wish personnally we could do as Alpha Men within our ranks, I recognize that I am not the only man of Alpha on the planet, and I realized that when I took the oath. So any changes a brother would like to see in Alpha must come from a respect for what the Jewels represented and being true to those core principles.

In the end, love brothers. When I say love, I don't mean an apathetic "love" that doesn't care about the well being of a brother nor respects the possiblity of a Loving God that has set forth ultimate principles of righteousness, grace, and justice. I mean that agape love that sees the best in brothers through their fallen humanity. We all got something in us that is less than honorable, but choose to find the good in every brother, and praise it and be critical of the falleness, without being disruptive with the brother.

Blackwatch!!!!!!