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Depends what you mean by "membership". Doesn't membership typically imply willful joining? While I am a member of the white race, I wouldn't equate that with membership in the sense that one can be a member of, say, a country club. Membership in a group (by choice) is a proxy for one's beliefs, given that many organizations have creeds, mission statements, rules, etc. It's OK to judge others by their choices (after all, what else can we judge others by?). What it's not OK to do is to judge others by the circumstances into which they are born. (Maybe I'm just having fun needling you about word choice, but you seem to like language, so why not?)