Ripcord22A
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How many jurisdictions use the word "eunuch" in their obligations? Have you ever thought you were being unjust to some who swore to uphold their obligations before God? Remember, none of us got to write our obligations. Remember some obligations have not changed significantly in generations. Also, remember to change a ritual is just not a one day affair and it is seldom done without much discussion. So, why suspend dialog with a jurisdiction or fellow human being just based on a disagreement. A disagreement I might add that has been on going for centuries. Also, explain where the lesson of tolerance has gone during all this political correctness that should not be in a lodge or grand lodge at all? May the G.A.O.T.U. watch over all.
This has nothing to do with our obligations. Ive never heard of eunuchs being in an obligation but im fairly young in Masonry. But that is neirther here nor there. In the thousands of comments I have read on this subject, not one has said...Hey in my Jurisdictions Homosexuals are listed in the MM ob....not a single brother, or redheaded step brother(clandestine mason) has said that. So with that said-this is a subject that, as brother @dfreybur has said, is the ideals of one reglious sects ideal of a subject being instituted in a jurisdiction. THese jurisdictions voted in to Masonic law in theor area. that is their right to do. What I would like to see done is the surrounding GLs that dont agree with the decisions allow the affected brethren to join their GLs.