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When I said I had no issue with the Star and Crescent or the Ritual, he told me something to the effect of, “Yeah, but that’s not good enough.”Īfter that, my pledge Brothers ceased talking to me. He pulled me aside and said I had to understand the fraternity was founded on certain values. I was embarrassed when he said he agreed with their decision.Īn hour after the ultimatum, I met a Brother and asked if the blackball was happening. The night I got the bid, I texted him about it, and he excitedly replied, “AEKDB Brother.” Six weeks later, I texted him that I was blackballed because I’m not a Christian. After getting the bid, I didn’t want to let him down. If this isn’t the tradition I was blackballed for, then I ask two questions: Which tradition was it? How do they pick and choose which traditions to follow? If this is the tradition I have no respect for, I’m guilty. During initiation, one must state, “That I will not assist at | the Initiation or Pledging | of a boy under fourteen, | an atheist, or a fool, | I knowing him to be such.” The Ritual Book () of Kappa Sigma is clearer. Kappa Sigma doesn’t require Brothers to believe in God but will countermand their membership if they don’t profess belief in God. The Brothers of Stanford argued that making people profess a belief in a God they don’t believe in doesn’t make them better men. In 1982, reported by the New York Times, Kappa Sigma revoked the charter of the Stanford chapter after they omitted God from their ritual. I am being discriminated against because of the last line. He must be a gentleman, a man of honor and courage, a man of zeal, yet humble, an intelligent man, a man of truth, one who tempers action with wisdom and, above all else, one who walks in the light of God.” “The Star and Crescent shall not be worn by every man, but only by him who is worthy to wear it.
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Per the Bononia Docet (Bologna Teaches, the fraternity’s textbook) one must believe in a higher power, not necessarily Yahweh, yet still, profess belief in God.Īt the first pledge chapter, pledgees learn the Star and Crescent, Kappa Sigma is unofficially a Christian fraternity. Four days later, I was officially removed from the organization without recourse. They then asked me to quit pledgeship, which I also refused. I refused to step down from my presidency over this discriminatory matter. Instead, I received an ultimatum.įollowing this meeting, two of my pledge brothers approached me to tell me, “Man, you’re getting put up for blackball due to the atheism shit.” My pledge Brothers demanded that I leave the Secular Student Alliance.
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I was never confronted and told I needed to stop acting in a certain manner or that I needed to take things more seriously. Their point was brothers must be able to call out each other’s discrepancies. Two weeks prior to being blackballed, the Fraternity held a pledge chapter meeting at which the Brothers asked pledgees, “Who would you blackball?” The object wasn’t to stir animosity, nor to cut anyone. What were my demonstrations of flippancy and pattern of passive-aggressiveness? This happened five months ago and I haven’t been told. The fraternity insisted I was blackballed for passive-aggressiveness and flippancy for tradition, but the Brother’s actions demonstrate how atheism was the true reason. The reason being, I am an atheist.įour days prior to being relieved from the Fraternity, two pledge-brothers of mine told me I was being blackballed due explicitly to my atheism. Instead, forty days after pledging to the Kappa Sigma fraternity, I was relieved of my pledge duties. My father was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, so upon initiation, I would have become a legacy member. I was excited to be pledging alongside my best friend, and earliest friend from college. On October 1, 2020, I pledged the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of North Georgia.
KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY FREE
Christopher was kicked out of his fraternity because he is nonreligious, he is sharing his story with the Secular Student Alliance in the hopes to create a future for secular students that is free from all forms of discrimination.
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Christopher sought remedy for the situation by seeking out support from the University of North Georgia and from the Kappa Sigma National Fraternity, neither of which was able to provide recourse for the discrimination he faced. Shortly after, he was removed from the fraternity because he is an atheist and would not profess that he believed in God. Last October, Chris took a pledge to join the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Christopher Hood is the President of the Secular Student Alliance at the University of North Georgia.