Posted on 12/26/2015 4:04:25 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
A young Iowa woman is accusing her college sorority of kicking her out after she voiced her pro-life views on Facebook. MacKenzie Dreeszen, an alumni of Cornell College in Iowa, joined a protest against Planned Parenthood in August after undercover videos showed the abortion business trafficking aborted babies’ body parts, according to Caffeinated Thoughts.
The trouble began when Dreeszen posted a photo of the rally and later a message on Facebook that said, "220 people are here in Des Moines protesting taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood -- not exactly something that you can ignore #alllivesmatter #defundPP #ProtestPP."
Dreeszen said her Facebook friends began debating in the comments sections of her posts, including several members of her sorority, Delta Phi Delta. Dreeszen, who now works for the Polk County, Iowa Republican Party, said she liked a few of the comments but otherwise did not participate in the conversations.
"The next day, a Delphi alum who graduated a year before I did started sending me nasty messages that were personally attacking me, my friends, and John (Dreeszen's fiancee), calling him a murderer because he served in Iraq and Afghanistan … I tried to defend myself and John, but realized that the situation was too emotionally charged and I blocked my friend," Dreeszen told the news site.
The trouble didn’t end there. Six weeks later, Dreeszen was caught off guard when the Cornell College chapter of Delta Phi Delta sent her an email announcing that the sorority’s judicial board voted to revoke her alum status, according to the report. The board accused her of violating an article of the sorority’s constitution, which states, "Members should respect each other and the group."
"You were given a trial and the Judicial Board decided that the best course of action based on offenses was revocation of Alum status," the letter states. "With this punishment you will no longer be allowed to attend Delphi events and the removal of the word ‘alum’ on your family line will be active immediately."
Dreeszen appealed the decision, according to the report. She said the sorority violated its own constitution when it failed to inform her of any facts or circumstances of the complaint. She said she also was denied the right to defend herself before the board made a decision.
Dreeszen wrote to the sorority board:
Again, I don't even know what circumstances you are referring to with this contact. If it is a misunderstanding that we can just drop then that would be something we should do as sisters. It seems like some emotional decisions were made but the conclusions at this point do not matter because they were not conducted in accordance with the constitution. Please send me more information and let me know if you think this is just a misunderstanding or if you are deciding instead to accept my formal complaint to the members of the judicial board that conducted the unconstitutional proceedings.
In response, the board sent Dreeszen a second email claiming that she was kicked out because she "liked" comments that attacked sorority sisters on social media, showed disrespect for sorority sisters both on and off social media and ignored sorority sisters’ concerns about racist remarks. The so-called racist remark involved Dreeszen using the hashtag #AllLivesMatter in her pro-life posts, according to the report.
The board refused to change its decision and told Dreeszen, "You were not put on trial for your beliefs, but rather the disrespect you showed to sisters with differing beliefs and opinions than your own."
Dreeszen, however, believes that her conservative, pro-life stance is the reason for the sorority’s unfair treatment of her. She sent a letter to the Greek Council at the college, asking for help in the matter.
"For over a year, I have been working as a professional Conservative activist, and this has sparked some controversy between me and my friends," Dreeszen said in a letter to the college. "In other words, this is a simple case of discrimination for voicing opinions in opposition to these individuals."
"It is my belief that the crime for which I am being convicted without a hearing is the crime of being a Conservative. … I fear for those who come after me if freedom of speech is so easily squelched," Dreeszen said.
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For every open door, how many doors are closed due to her membership in a sorority? As an employer of many, I see that as a big negative.
Her sorority raised closed to $100,000 this year for several charities. She interned with our Rep Governor, has to maintain at least a 3.0 plus participate in sorority events. I could go on and on. Maybe you need to look into what it takes to get into some sororities and the quality of girls before making a general statement.
Now also known as Delta Phi Cthulhu.
The last sorority person I hired couldn’t write a sentence to save her life and had great difficulty thinking outside the box, despite her 3.2 GPA. I later learned that her sorority had a file drawer of mid-term and final exams from professors who were too lazy to periodically change the exam, and the sisters encouraged the new recruits to take these classes to boost their GPA. No thank you.
OK then...all sorority girls are idiots LOL. Maybe you bear some responsiblity for hiring her without fully vetting her.
Bunch of ugly chicks.
Which means liberal chicks.
Don’t be fooled by pretensions. Sororities can be extremely nasty, crude and primitive places. One sorority president wrote an extremely course, crude, gross, and obscene letter to her “sisters” that was so offensive that a comedian used it in a recital. This is that recital. DEFINITELY NSFW.
I say again, DEFINITELY NSFW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dngOH9G4UPw
Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter
Delta Gamma is one of the oldest and largest women’s sororities in the United States and Canada, with over 210,000 members worldwide. It has 148 collegiate chapters in the United States and Canada and 131 alumnae chapters.
“Delta Gamma creates an environment for its women to establish long lasting friendships. The philosophy of Delta Gamma is to “foster an atmosphere in which women will develop a deeper love and consideration for mankind, a more profound understanding of the purpose of life, and a basic wisdom upon which to build their lives.”
Keep this in mind if you watch the NSFW video.
She should thank her lucky stars! Consider it a blessing!
I have had similar situations over the years. Was elected
to a position in school. Well, the hatefulness started right
away from the “in” crowd (which I wasn’t in). I was treated
horribly all that year; until I finally let them goad me
into “running away from home”. Well. THAT gave them even
more ammunition.
My husband was from the same town and had been in the sort
of “in” crowd; but his group was very different from the
tone deaf bunch I graduated with.
Husband pressured me to go to all the stuff “my” class
threw for 40 years. At that point, due to just ongoing
crap, I called a halt. (They had planned a “cruise” back
when the hurricane hit New Orleans. The cruise ships were
then commandeered for housing the suddenly homeless. -
The person who had been “planning” the cruise would not
let go in the determination to “go on a class cruise”.
I just wrote back and told them to face REALITY. Now,
I’m totally unhooked and unpressured. - About time!!
My daughter’s sorority is anything but nasty and crude and they have over 250 sisters. Lots of lovely girls who are intelligent,driven,sweet and conservative. Just hate to see so many freeper right off sororities because of a few examples. Maybe freepers need to open their minds to what is possible and don’t just follow along with haters.
Good grief. At least edit the first paragraph of what you write! Masculine plural of alumnus?
There is general agreement that there is only a tiny minority of bad apples out there. But the bad ones make up for it with notoriety, and being able to single-handedly destroy years or decades of goodwill. And even after booting out the worst of the lot, they are haunted by their behavior for a very long time.
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