I can see both sides of the fence. I would love to be a KA in Texas. Their chapters have beutiful mansions and great brotherhood. My replies today have been heated, but they always are when your trying to defend something you love.
Our national office is voting this summer to ban all confederate regalia from KA property and functions. Will I vote for it? Hell no. I had the honor of meeting our Knight Commander this weekend at our province council. He was a fine man, but also a supporter of removing the Confederate regalia. Well, if it means that less chapters would be suspended, then maybe I will vote for it. Nationals expects us to uphold gentlemanly conduct always. I dont support the suspension of those chapters charters. But hey, when you have broke through and hit the press with your actions, then I guess you have to make an example out of a few. I just dont understand it though. And more especially is Arkansas. There is no way that chapter should have lost their charter because a brother stood up to defend the honor of his girlfriend. I really appreciate your apology today, but it really wasnt necessary. Sometimes I think I should have kept my mouth shut unless the thread got completely out of control, but hey, maybe I'll make a friend or two (or enemy for that matter) out of all this. Any brother that is out there reading this, step up, be heard. If we dont then we will have to accept the oppresion of this.
My heart goes out to my brothers who have lost their charter. I dont know what to say. I can think of no other horror than that of not being able to confer our intiation, that masterpiece, that work of art, upon the minds of young men. Be proud of the Order. You can go to lots of greek pages and see the secrets of some large national fraternities plastered all over them. As for the Order, this is one secret they wont be able to pry from my cold dead hands. My chapter recently won the top national chapter award, but even with that, I know that we have to watch what we say and do, not only to uphold the definition of a gentleman, and because big brother is watching.
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