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What if your lodge predates the GLTX?
Too easy for things to get out of hand and be perceived in a bad light by the public. We do not need to give the anti-masonic crowd any more ammunition.
this year, the Grand Master doesn't allow it in spite of what the law says.
post Morgan affair puritanical influence, yes there is a GL of TX article prohibiting alcohol in, "the lodge room," though I can't off the top of my head recite chapter and verse on that one. Now the article specifies only the lodge room, not necessarily in the entire building.
In our neighbor to the east, GL of LA, I have visited Germania # 46 in New Orleans. They have a lovely lodge room upstairs and a nice dining room downstairs with a bar at one end complete with beer (I forget which brands) on tap! I was raised a Baptist, but I'll still say high to you at the liquor store
Our lodge room is within our local Shrine temple. We don't drink before lodge, and certainly never within the lodge room. But after lodge?
Keeping in mind that there are pool tables, big screen tvs, poker tables and on and on in the various unit rooms on every side of our lodge room, above the lodge room, etc etc. The Shrine temple property is like a mini Hogwarts for menfolk, and gated, so privacy is well assured. Some nights we have boxing matches right across the hallway from our lodge too...full ring, undercards and all that stuff.
The man who was my top signer at the Shrine gave me a great rule of thumb the day I was initiated up there: "Drink all you want, but don't get drunk", and thats how we approach it. Which means, don't make an ass of yourself, keep your wits about you and so forth. Getting a DUI or God forbid hurting someone on the road, much less getting sloppy drunk and making your brothers uncomfortable isn't in the cards.
And you're likely to make a hell of a donation to the capital improvement fund via the rake if you do that anyway
Good point cog41. I'd like to think tho that the setting in which we are in (post meeting) would be enough to hinder one from loosing their tongue.
Sounds like an ideal setup!
Sounds like an ideal setup!
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