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I relayed this story already in the Gamma Gamma Chi thread, but apparently many GLOs (or their individual chapters) would have, in the past, had a problem with initiating a non-Christian.
In the early 1970s, my boyfriend's mom was a member of a nationally prominent NPC sorority. After they gave out bids one year, they found out that one of their new members was Jewish. They refused to let her initiate since a Jewish girl "could not partake in a Christian ritual" and immediately depledged her -- my bf's mom feels bad now, of course, but she said at the time it was a unanimous decision because they really felt that it was a religious ritual.
It may have just been her chapter, and I know it wouldn't be that way now, but it's a valid question. In some cases, religion very much mattered.
Edited for spelling
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