Do you....

[AXOKatie]

i think it's good that this thread can express so many different viewpoints...i also think that it's such a shame that people can compare cutting a girl because she's a lesbian to wearing a certain type of clothing or not having the right grades...

what we do can be classified as discrimination to some people, though i think that it's not about cutting people down until you get the least common denominator for your pledge class, i think it's about seeing if these girls can work effectively in a group and be friends...so some people on this thread must think that a bisexual or gay girl won't find at least one friend in their chapter, because that's the only acceptable reason i can think why you would choose to disregard her academics, her leadership skills and her character in favor of a label...it's just as ridiculous as the poor comparison given before of cutting a fat girl just because she's fat and disregarding the fact that she's a math whiz or a KIND PERSON...

yes, we have the right to choose who we want to be in our organization, a right that is protected by years of tradition and is a beautiful thing...as voltaire said "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"...but i don't think that we should abuse that right in order to make us feel "safe" and only choose people who look, talk and act like us...is an organization better because it has no gay people? better if it had ALL gay people? it's the quality of person, not the label that makes their membership effective, how they can add to the cloth of the sorority and make our picture look wonderfully different...why can't some people feel sisterhood towards a gay girl? don't they think that putting people into one tiny box is wrong? we all have more to each other than others think. i may be a theatre major, but i am so much more. you may be a soccer player, but you're so much more. and you might be gay, but again you are so much more than some label that someone tries to pin on you. why can't some people feel sisterhood for someone who might be gay, but also have your interests and ideals for the chapter? why are sisters afraid of this?