Re: freemasons stance on religion of members

In article <S2jCe.16000$js.6413@xxxxxxxx>,
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> Brother, you should be concerned about the behavior of other Grand
> Jurisdictions with which yours is in amity. Like it or not, recognition
> is tacit approval of the body and its policies.

I agree. Your mistake is in assuming that I am not concerned.

>
> If an organization, posing as mainstream Freemasonry, practiced blatant
> racial discrimination, no doubt you would, perhaps, lose some sleep over
> the issue - certainly if your Grand Lodge recognized this organization:
> thereby approving its practices.

Again, your assumption is in error. I am deeply concerned that my GL
continues to recognize the thirteen U.S. GL's that have refused to
recognized Prince Hall Masonry. Were it up to me, they would all be
declared clandestine, as would the GL of Sweden. The reality though, is
that there is very little that I can do to affect such change.

Now, I could pick up my ball and go home, or I can stay in the game and
do what I CAN to make a difference. Guess what I'm doing.

> Why, then, would you take religious discrimination lightly? Or am I to
> suppose you would "not lose any sleep over" the racial discrimination?
> When did one become more acceptable than the other?

Please don't put words in my mouth. I sleep well because I do what I
can, and recognize that there is very little I can do to influence the
GL of Sweden, the bigots south of the Mason/Dixon line, or even my own
GL's recognition of them. This does NOT constitute a judgement that one
form of bigotry is more "acceptable".

>
> If I seem overly harsh with you on this point, forgive me, but it is at
> times when "good men do nothing" that tyranny has seized the day.

Apology accepted.

> Ignoring problems such as these amounts to all but complicitity, if we
> take our lesson from even recent history. Merely shaking ones head at
> injustice - because one's own back did not feel the lash? Little better.
>
> You should care, all of you, my brothers, about the state of affairs of
> your fellow man - and if we, of the Craft, are to help guide mankind
> towards the light (as noted before the Alter during the first degree),
> we must do so from a foundation as innocent of wrongdoing as the White
> Apron - or none would venture to listen.

Well put.

.

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