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Can you expand on this without getting anyone in hot water?

:thumbup1: I think you've got it exactly right, Brother.

"Healing" of a portion of the obligation is within the power of a Grand Master. So that argument is one that you would have to settle with no one but yourself. Perhaps I am reading more into this than I should... Are you seriously saying that you "have a problem" with any Brother who doesn't...

It's not "bad" news unless the organizations represented in therein (the respective Grand Lodge jurisdications) have been ignoring it, and more importantly, the inevitable financial impact, for years. Sadly, many, if not most, have been doing exactly that. But that too, is not exactly "news"...

Prayers for our Brother who has found himself in this uncomfortable position are the best thing we can offer. The RCC's views on Freemasonry are misinformed, at best, but bashing the institution that is central to his faith isn't going to make his predicament any easier to resolve. A decision...

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You understand well, Brother. :14:

That's an excellent idea. No doubt, it will be (has been) met with no small amount of noise (mostly of the "we've never done it that way" variety) from certain quarters, and ti might require some Lodges to adjust to a different cash-flow picture if it catches on, but on the whole it's a very...

I'm with you, Brother. If there's one word that covers it all, "light" is that word. All of the other tenets, brotherly love, relief, truth, are contained therein. It is by the "light" of Masonry that we are able to "work"; to study, learn, understand, and practice all of the other things in a...

Yes, to all three questions. Those qualities are what set us apart. At least they are supposed to be. If one group of Masons chooses to pursue those goals and another does not, it is the choices of the respective groups that should be weighed, not the clothing they wear or the libations they...

"Prevail"? At what? I'm not sure that "obedient believer" is quite the image we want to project for those who have been convinced that we are the spawn of Satan himself. Leaning on religion to disabuse another of his religious beliefs, however misguided, is almost guaranteed to be futile...

It would appear that existing laws of the GL of Arkansas have been violated by it's Grand Master. More laws won't change that. Removing recognition might.

I tell them, "You can't prove what you are saying, because it is false, though you will almost certainly try, by citing the usual litany of discredited 'sources'. If you are interested in the truth, that is to say things which are supported by knowable facts, I can share that with you...

Me, for sure, right after a whole bunch of other people for a long time. :001_smile: New drugs the promise miracles always seem to come with other promises like, "...may cause seizure, coma, or death...", so I'd like the real world box score before committing.

Oh, yeah.

Quite. And by the way, Bill, thank you for taking the time to post the relevant sections governing the issue in Texas. As I suspected, there is a disconnect between what the Texas Grand Lodge and at least some of it's member lodges understand to be the nature of the "ownership" of Lodge...

Congratulations and welcome back, brother. :biggrin:

As our membership dwindles, revenue declines, and sadly, Lodges close, the question of who actually owns the Lodge's tangible property and real estate is being called into question. Some jurisdictions have these issues well defined (even though the majority of the Masons in some of those...

I urge caution and temperance, Brother. The story of what's going on in New Jersey seems outrageous, and it may well be accurate as told, but we do not know all the facts. Furthermore, some of the personalities involved in the telling of the tale have "history" with each other. I can not say the...

That is exactly my point, about which I am quite serious. If the need exists for a Masonic bill of rights; a document defining fundamental principles of justice, of right and wrong, then we are already lost. To be sure, there are many, many examples of injustice done by one Mason, or group of...