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Masonic Law Question

In your Opinion, does this give the Lodge the ability to hold people accountable?

  • Yes, If so explain the extent of the punishment that can be handed out.

    Votes: 29 78.4%
  • No, punishment can only be given by Grand Lodge. State where this is found.

    Votes: 8 21.6%

  • Total voters
    37

dfreybur

Premium Member
It is a landmark that each lodge that every lodge is responsible for its own administration. Yet if you ever have to have a trial in your own lodge who wants to have it run by brothers with zero experience at it? So rules about trials appear in codes and brothers with experience are called in. Both Masonic code books I've read so far have plenty of regulations about masonic trials.

Conflict with the landmarks come in if GL insists on a trial after the local lodge declines to hold one. Or where GL takes unilateral actions that override local lodge decisions about trial issues. An example of this is GL automatically expelling a brother convicted of a felony. Have you ever heard of a brother objecting to that rule? Yet it is in conflict with a landmark. I think of it as a procedural shorthand.

There have been examples of a MW GM out of control expelling brothers without trials or imposing a trial on a lodge to do so. Several years ago MW PGM Hass of West Virginia plus at least a DDGM were expelled by edict over some sort of technicality that really boiled down to his successor objecting to steps towards PHA recognition. In Nov 2012 the still current GM of Florida issued an edict of religious bigotry expelling brothers who are members of a specific list of small minority religions. It happens. Not often but that it happens is not acceptable.
 

Michael Neumann

Premium Member
It is my limited understanding that the passage allows lodges to ask gentlemen to leave if they are inturrupting work, as I would ask an employee to please step out of a meeting if they were detracting from the meeting for the sake of being negative. How many meetings have you been to where there is a brother whom inisists upon inturrupting at every opportunity? In my humble opinion the rule is ment to allow the WM to ask that this gentleman contain himself or leave until next week. Beyond that punshiment is GL duty.
 

bupton52

Moderator
Premium Member
They say the devil

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Doesn't happen. It's just another one of those things that the mystique of freemasonry seems to be unable to dodge. I'm very strong in my faith and I can assure you that no soul selling is happening in the fraternity.


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