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Translated:
The decision of the utmost obedience in France closes a debate that lasted for years.
Surprise move Friday at the Grand Orient of France. This first assignment Freemason in France, always remained male, has officially decided to admit women into its midst. It becomes a de facto obedience where the boxes are free to initiate women, without becoming a formal obedience mixed. This decision thus closes a debate that divided the Grand Orient for many years .
Subsequent Conventions - annual general meetings of autumn - the prospect of admitting women in the boxes was regularly voted but never find a majority in favor.
Initiations "wild"
At the point of causing internal damage as last September , in Lyon, where several delegates had left the meeting in protest. Stormy meeting in the context where several lodges of Grand Orient had chosen not to wait for approval and were conducted initiations "savages" of six women at risk of exclusion. Procedures had even been launched against them at the national level.
To resolve this problem the way chosen by the grand master, Pierre Lambicchi was not proposing a new meeting time this issue but to seize an internal committee responsible. That is to say the Supreme Chamber Masonic Justice (CSJM). This body is able to evaluate and then decide on the application of internal regulations.
When asked whether it was contrary to the rules of the Grand Orient lodges that can initiate women, she said at a meeting April 8, there was nothing wrong in the internal regulations of this boxes that take the initiative.
Its implementation is immediate since it is prescribed. It should, however, satisfy many of the 47,000 members of the Grand Orient, as the decision remains subject to each of 1,150 boxes.
Opposition to this measure was in effect often associated with culture and history of boxes and not specific to the authority as such which regularly hosts "Sisters" to work together.
Translated:
The decision of the utmost obedience in France closes a debate that lasted for years.
Surprise move Friday at the Grand Orient of France. This first assignment Freemason in France, always remained male, has officially decided to admit women into its midst. It becomes a de facto obedience where the boxes are free to initiate women, without becoming a formal obedience mixed. This decision thus closes a debate that divided the Grand Orient for many years .
Subsequent Conventions - annual general meetings of autumn - the prospect of admitting women in the boxes was regularly voted but never find a majority in favor.
Initiations "wild"
At the point of causing internal damage as last September , in Lyon, where several delegates had left the meeting in protest. Stormy meeting in the context where several lodges of Grand Orient had chosen not to wait for approval and were conducted initiations "savages" of six women at risk of exclusion. Procedures had even been launched against them at the national level.
To resolve this problem the way chosen by the grand master, Pierre Lambicchi was not proposing a new meeting time this issue but to seize an internal committee responsible. That is to say the Supreme Chamber Masonic Justice (CSJM). This body is able to evaluate and then decide on the application of internal regulations.
When asked whether it was contrary to the rules of the Grand Orient lodges that can initiate women, she said at a meeting April 8, there was nothing wrong in the internal regulations of this boxes that take the initiative.
Its implementation is immediate since it is prescribed. It should, however, satisfy many of the 47,000 members of the Grand Orient, as the decision remains subject to each of 1,150 boxes.
Opposition to this measure was in effect often associated with culture and history of boxes and not specific to the authority as such which regularly hosts "Sisters" to work together.