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Your first step is to have all of the personal information (full name, DOB, etc.) that you can get on your "suspected" relatives.
Next get in touch with your local Lodge Secretary, get him to help you. You will need him on order to get in contact with the Grand Lodge and the Grand Lodge...
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I am going to give you the same advice that I have given to EVERY young Mason. Concentrate on your immediate degree studies only. Stay away from books and the internet on the subject of Masonry, it will only harm your personal experience as you are developing.
You will have plenty of time for...
You will need to double check with someone at the GLoFL. I can tell you that at least in Texas, there would be no way that this person could be made a Mason regardless if he turned his life around.
"No Contest" is considered a conviction.
I am not sure how I missed this post earlier today...
I will most certainly say a prayer of healing for your daughter, as well a prayer of comfort for you and your family. This is a tough trial for all of you right now, more especially for your daughter. Be strong in your faith, He is with you...
As a Sir Knight I can tell you that the "mainstream" Order of the Temple makes NO reference to a candidates sexual orientation. At no point in York Rite Masonry (including degrees 1, 2, & 3) is sexual orientation made reference to or inquired about. It has quite frankly never been an issue...
Look gentlemen, I have homosexual friends and each of them would make great Masons AND you would never know that they were gay...
I guarantee that there are homosexual Brethren active in Lodges all over this Nation right now. If you did not have an issue with them yesterday, there certainly...
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1) You have made a very valid point here, "your religion". Masonry is not a single religion, nor does it specify one religion being superior over another. Therefore, what is good for...