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Originally Posted by 33girl
Yes it does. The problem is the slippery slope. Some people consider their political beliefs just as important as others consider their religion, and when you tell one girl that wearing letters to the Methodist Church cookout is OK and tell another girl that wearing letters to a Ron Paul rally is forbidden...then you're going to tick someone off.
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Well let me put it this way...MANY sororities have religious references in ritual or ceremonies. It's hard to cut out all religious association when there are references left from the days of many of our founders. I can't see myself telling a sister she can't wear her jersey to a Campus Outreach meeting, even though you couldn't pay me to attend one. But politics are ever changing and generally speaking can get much more extreme than youth groups. (Again, I'm not talking about any religious organizations that are extreme...I don't know what you'd do about that, but I haven't had any experience with a situation like that.) Girls in sororities on my campus were frequently asked not to wear letters to meetings of a club that supports the legalization of marijuana. I'm much more likely to attend that meeting than Campus Outreach, but I can see why letters don't belong there. People probably assume that attendees are potheads. It's one thing to assume that, it's another to walk into a room and see ten XYZ shirts. What assumptions would be made there? As I see it, most religions can be boiled down to this: they encourage and help their followers to be better people. Of course, not everyone is a good follower, but the religions themselves are good things, as far as I'm concerned. I don't mind a sister showing she is religious and loves her organization by wearing her badge to church or temple or whatever.
Like I said, I'm sure the situation would vary from chapter to chapter, depending on campus culture. I went to school in the south, where not only is religion part of the ritual of many of the sororities on campus, it's just part of the community. It wouldn't be worth the fight to tell people they had to disassociate from their organization when attending religion related activities. Trust me, it would be a FIGHT. I also have friends at a school that associates directly with a Christian denomination. Obviously on their campus, their letters are directly connected to religion by default, even though none of the organizations are Christian.
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