Gay Student Booted From Cornell Group

people who have been posting don't really understand the issue. it's not really a lgbt-rights issue, but whether an organization who has values different from a sponsoring institution should receive funds from the student body. organizations have the right to elect their leadership positions, and even exclude members, which chi alpha didn't do until donohoe's values were made apparent that they diverged from the group. in this case, it's not that the group discriminated against the fact that he was gay (he was still a member even when they knew he was gay), but because the group felt like his values wouldn't accurately reflect chi alpha's charter in a leadership position. it makes sense: you don't put someone in a leadership position who doesn't represent your group. plus, chi alpha has the right to believe whatever they want because of the freedom of religion, as long as it's not hateful in any way, which all the reports so far have stated they weren't.

Toss out the queer, toss the organization off campus! If they meet off campus they can do what ever they desire. If they meet ON campus, then I do not believe they can be exclusionary in their membership.

roger and moo: you are idiots. The REAL civil rights movement is the movement for equal rights under the law regardless of race, relgion, gender, sexual orientation, etc. To try to capture the civil rights movement as though it had only to do with race is absurd and itself racist.

I am happy that Donohoe is no longer a member of this hateful group. They do a lot of damage to a lot of people. The only problem I see is that they should not be supported by the student fees of gay students and their allies. Otherwise, if anyone is stupid enough to join Chi Alpha, welcome to the cult.

Good for them...finally some sanity being returned to peoples thinking ... In my opinion people should be allowed to decide who can be a member of their own private groups and organizations. When gays start to squeel "civil rights ...civil rights" and try to equate their pursuit of acceptance of a lifestyle that most of the world finds disgusting with the civil rights movement thats where they lose me everytime ... it's dishonest...it's not true, and it cheapens the suffering of the victims of the real civil movement. Get a griop and take your bedroom habits back into the bedroom... do you really want your life defined by something the rest of us do for an hour 3 times a week?

"If you're committing sins, you will not enter the kingdom of God" Ya know, I can totally understand how they can say this and mean it in their hearts, because they pick and choose which sins are sins, and not what the bible says are sins. I bet they cut their hair! Eaten shellfish... OOPS! There are a plethora of sins.. but what gets me is this little line they love to overlook. "A sin is a sin" which essentially says all sins are treated equally before god. So let the boy run Chi Alpha, and you can have a shrimp now and then. It's all equal.

How can this group continue to receive student activity funds from the University if they are permitted to discriminate? I hope the University fixes this issue. I know my sister, a Cornell alumna, will be cutting back her donations the school when she finds out about this, unless the school does the right thing.

Cornell is not truly an Ivy school anyway. I went to Yale.

When are these people going to learn. We are born with our sexuality. To deny that sexuality is a sin. By booting Mr Donohoe they are in fact committing a sin against god. Let them reflect and think back a little. There were places and organizations that would have done the same with President Obama's Parents.

Someone should tell Miss Longoria that she is sinning by placing judgement on another, because that is definetly not her job, unless she is St. Peter in drag. Is not everyone getting tired of these holier than thows, yet break all 10 commandments before they have their mnorning coffee.