Family problems

[daruler]

Greetings to all,
Now that I have firmly established in my mind that Alpha Kappa Alpha is something that I want to pursue I have begun to tell those closest to me about my aspirations. My problem is that my mother and sister do not understand why I want to join a sorority and in fact my mother is heartset against it. Amoung other things, she believes that people who join GLO are weak minded, have no sense of self and also that GLO somehow are sinful because in effect you are pledging yourself to something other than what God has set out in the bible. Adding to this is the fact that she has never gone to college and therefore can only go on what she has seen in movies or by members of our family. My cousin is a Sigma and he is branded, which she is what initially soured her to GLO's in the first place. I have been trying for the past couple of weeks to make her understand, but what can I say? I am not in one and she is the most important person in the world to me, her opinions mean a lot. I would have a really hard time doing anything that would jeopardize my mother's opinion of me. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can possibly help her to understand that there are more positive than negative aspects to being in a GLO?