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With respect brother, if it requires a second wedding ceremony to "show her" anything (outside of the specific religious considerations each of you may desire), the relationship the two of you share may not be ready for marriage. What you are to your prospective wife should be demonstrated by...

Indeed. Brotherly love, relief, and truth have been prized in virtually every chivalric order almost since records of such have been kept. In many examples, Medieval Europe, Bushido, Futuwwah, it was an aristocratic class, often warriors, that arrived at the same set of values and similar...

You keep rambling on about OK and PHA. Why? What have those things to do with the news article under discussion here? Do you have a point you'd like to make?

Then I must confess that I too am confused. How does PHA Masonry fit into the context of this discussion?

Re: Wife having a problem with Freemasonry, she wa coachn's analysis is spot-on, IMO, as is his advice. Still, among the practical solutions you (both you and your SO) might consider are finding a lodge that meets on a different night, or finding a church that has services on a different night...

Who, exactly, is "they"?

Absolutely. I have a lot of respect for Brother Tim Bryce, but I believe he's quite wrong, in his observations (most of them, anyway) and his rationale. The standard go-to solution that I seem to see is a membership drive. "We need to get more members!" is the refrain, and what follows is...

Exactly. It is how the man chooses to dress for Lodge, not what he is actually wearing, that matters. As you say, if the man has not chosen to wear his "Sunday best", whatever that may be, he is not demonstrating the "reverant comportment" that Masonic labor demands. No matter how many Masons...

The pronouncement that "Wicca has two chief deities" reflects a shallow and incomplete understanding of Wicca. In a way, it's as inaccurate (and easily as insensitive) as suggesting the "the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians should just set aside their differences because it's all just one...

You know this, how, exactly? More importantly, the petition asks no questions of this nature. If the candidate answers yes to the question that is asked, done. As to what book to use? Whatever he identifies as his VoSL should be acceptable. BTW, lots of Wiccan's have their "Book of Shadows"...

Re: A Masonic "Bill of Rights". Is it needed? Is i Nailed it.

Excellent stuff! Any Lodge that earnestly pursued these guidelines would never worry about "membership" again, because they would be actually delivering the promise that Freemasonry has always made.

Re: A Masonic "Bill of Rights". Is it needed? Is i I would very much like to believe that we could come up with such a document, but it is the human failings that would torpedo any such effort right from the start. Fear, ignorance, and personal biases would throw a giant wrench into things...

To hear far too many Masons tell it, there is magical power in the book, but as one lawyer Brother so aptly put it, "There is no magic in the bible. In court rooms every day, people will tell the most astounding lies immediately after having taken an oath with their hands upon a bible." The...

No, and I don't understand why there would even be a question. Neither the obligation nor the questions asked of a candidate to determine if he is qualified ask anything about his religion.

Fair enough, and anything that pokes the anti's is a worthy pursuit. :30: Like Brother Perry, I found early on that the lesson of the 24 inch gauge compelled me to seek something more meaningful than "once a week on Sunday". So in that, the anti's are right, though I would defend as the more...

Then why limit the discussion to those sects that confine their formal worship to once a week?

That's more true than not, but you and I both know that there are Lodges that "...don't have time for that stuff." I'll spare us the rant on what they do have time for, because we all know that refrain. It is not reasonable to expect our newest members (the one's we're worried about attracting...

My friend, From your statements, it seems that you have taken at face value at least some of the more common myths about Freemasonry, the U.S. government, and Washington, D.C. The fact that The House of the Temple (the headquarters for The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction)...

That's OK. I know exactly what you mean. :001_smile: