A joyous Visitation

I once mentioned to the Grand Master of Prince Hall in Minnesota that I'd like to visit one of his lodges some day. His response was "so, go! You don't need my permission!" Of course, Minnesota is one of only a couple of states whose Grand Lodges allow plural membership between the jurisdictions.

That is a gorgeous lodge room

relapse98 said:

I'm not even sure where one would need to go to modify that. My memory is hazy, but we voted on the acceptance of the recommendation of the committee on fraternal relations at the 2014 Annual Communication which set the process in motion to establish visitation guidelines. And the Grand Secretaries hammered out the process. But I don't think that is in the Law anywhere. Without it being there, I'm not sure what can be changed, know what I mean?

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Proposed legislation does not always have to be about the law. The process is the same as any other legislation. Become a PM. Write it up. Sign it. Send it in. Deal with any discussion from the committee on jurisprudence and/or the Gr Sec office. End up on the floor. As Br Bill points out, next year as we're past the deadline for this year.

Worth the hassle? Probably not worth going through all of that just to get rid of a form. Especially since to do it for real we'd want to find Brothers in WMPHGLofTX to go through the same process so they drop the form as well. If they continue to require the form dropping the requirement on our side only gets us half way there.

dfreybur said:

If they continue to require the form dropping the requirement on our side only gets us half way there.

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True, but the game can't begin until SOMEONE kicks the damn football!

dfreybur said:

Proposed legislation does not always have to be about the law.

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Ah, you're right. I remember the one last year about requiring the Grand Secretary to send his email before the month so that lodges who had a stated meeting early in the month could read it to their members before everything happened. That was one that affected things not in the law.

Bill_Lins77488 said:

True, but the game can't begin until SOMEONE kicks the damn football!

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In my case I'm going through the line. For practical reasons my first kick is my first year as a PM. We'll see how many years that is and whether this is near the top of my topic list by then.

Don.riney said:

We are still getting to know each other here in Texas. As far as I know this is the second large scale visit to a PH lodge since the compact of Amenity was approved by both Grand Lodges.

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This is great!