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Just to clarify, Union and Stringer are accepted by the PHA Conference of Grandmasters. I am unaware of them being excepted by members of CGMNA.

Two different concepts: declaring rights in the Jurisdiction's documents and complying with those rights. The United States has a Bill of Rights, and yet those rights are at times violated. Two different issues. Please identify which jurisdictions do not declare rights in their laws. In Utah...

Each GL of which I am aware already does declare a Mason's rights. In Utah, it includes the right to object to a visitor. It appears you wish to abrogate the right of the brethren. That is in derogation of their rights, not in support of their rights. Further, for a WM to have the final say...

What Lodge?

Not in Utah. As for only having one butt, you clearly aren't attending enough Masonic banquets.

That is not a right in all jurisdictions. In Utah it is a privilege, subject to the objection of any Lodge member.

Not all jurisdictions use the same landmarks or even claim landmarks. To which one do you refer?

It was the third Thursday of January 21 years ago that I was initiated.

It provides me some solace that in this case it was not originally a Masonuc structure.

Clever. Where did you get the spheres?

Hmm. I have spent 32 years as an attorney and judge either trying to influence a higher power with my words or being the higher power who was listening to the (sometimes) influencing words. I view my relationship with Deity in -somewhat- the same manner. To me, it is not magic, it is logic.

Congratulations Grand Chaplain Allied Masonic Degrees of the United States

USNR, Retired, 31 Dec 2014. 25 years. Father was Navy, both boys as well. One was a Devil Doc and the other is Medical Corps.

It's a good Navy term. Similar to mandateering.

http://www.sos.ky.gov/admin/Executive/Pages/Kentucky-Colonels.aspx http://www.formsofaddress.info/Colonel_Kentucky.html We can also reflect on the time when lawyers in the South were sometimes called Colonel. The last person I recollect using the term is a Mason some years senior to me. See...

Small correction which does not change the substantive point: the Proclamation only freed slaves in the rebellious states. It did not outlaw slavery in the United States. See http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/

Hmm. How about an analogy? In my mother jurisdiction, we have exacting requirements to become a Wordhipful Master, including the ability to open and close lodge in all three degrees, confer all three degrees, perform the lecture of a degree, do the "G" lecture, perform each of the officer...

Umm, 29 degrees sequentially (plus KYCH and 33rd)? Five mandatory.

Perhaps at one of the bull sessions, explain you would like to see the lodge open and close at the next meeting? Perhaps inviting the district deputy along would help. FWIW, you have my sympathy. I'd invite you over to one of our Utah Lodges, but it's a bit of a hike!

Ahh, but not all jurisdictions require this memorization.