Brandon T Cole ᎡᏙᎰᎢ
Registered User
Good afternoon, Brethren.
Have any of you ever come across meetings or ritual work done in Sign Language? I have a deaf friend who is interested in Masonry, but putting him through the degrees would present at least two problems:
1. No members of the lodge know how to sign, and thus cannot interpret for him (I communicate with him through Facebook Messenger).
2. Even if we did have a Mason interpreter, we would not be able to hoodwink him without him missing all spoken portions of the degrees.
While I've asked our Grand Lecturer how we would go about this, I was wondering if anyone else had been in this situation and, if so, how they overcame it. Even if you haven't seen this situation, what would you opine?
I should clarify that this individual has not been to meet-ups, nor has he taken steps to become a Mason; as of right now, I'm treating his scenario as a hypothetical.
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Have any of you ever come across meetings or ritual work done in Sign Language? I have a deaf friend who is interested in Masonry, but putting him through the degrees would present at least two problems:
1. No members of the lodge know how to sign, and thus cannot interpret for him (I communicate with him through Facebook Messenger).
2. Even if we did have a Mason interpreter, we would not be able to hoodwink him without him missing all spoken portions of the degrees.
While I've asked our Grand Lecturer how we would go about this, I was wondering if anyone else had been in this situation and, if so, how they overcame it. Even if you haven't seen this situation, what would you opine?
I should clarify that this individual has not been to meet-ups, nor has he taken steps to become a Mason; as of right now, I'm treating his scenario as a hypothetical.
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