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I read it, but so long ago that I don't remember much about it. Lomas is definitely a Mason.

I contacted the Grand Lodge of Illinois directly through their email link on their web site, and requested information on my grandfather's masonic record. They scanned it and emailed it back to me in just a couple of days.

So we don't recruit, and tell people "2 Be 1 Ask 1," live in a society where most people no longer know a Mason, then tell the brothers not to represent. How are those good men to find us to ask? Or are you happy to watch us continue to fade into irrelevance, while people wonder if the Masons...

Deacons are elected in your jurisdiction? The only elected offices here are Master, Wardens, Secretary, and Treasurer. All the rest are appointed.

Too late.

Our entire progressive line is in their twenties, thirties, and early forties, with no past masters in any of the progressive chairs.

Both Minnesota Grand Lodges allow plural membership between the Grand Lodges, but if we're not the only one, there are only a couple. We have quite a few men who belong to both PHA and GLoM lodges, including the current AF&AM Grand Master and the PHA Senior Warden (who is a lodge secretary and...

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Thank you. What I said is that the secret ballot is more important.

I think that the good that can be done by keeping bigots from hiding is far outweighed by the loss of a secret ballot.

The old rule of thumb was, unless the Army awarded it to you, you couldn't wear it on your uniform. If you had a pen showing in your pocket, someone would ask you if you had orders awarding that pen.

Here, if you belong to one lodge in the state, you only have to pay the Grand Lodge "per-capita" dues once. At your second lodge, you only have to pay the portion of the dues that stay at that lodge.

Dropping is preferable to an F, but federal grants/loans also require that you maintain a certain "completion rate" which drops count against. Check with your financial aid office on that topic.

I keep asking, what about the brother who knows something about the petitioner that he absolutely cannot discuss with anyone without bringing considerable embarrassment to himself or a loved one? What's the point of a secret ballot if one is required to reveal how he voted and why?

This may be one of the most unMasonic posts I've ever seen. We have a few one-day Masons in my Lodge. We treat them EXACTLY the same way we treat any other brother. One is now a Past Master of the Lodge and a very active, very productive member of the Lodge.

I have no idea what you're talking about!

I don't like the three-cube rule, because if you had two brothers drop cubes for valid reasons but the petitioner approved anyway, you could lose two brothers from the lodge to gain one new one.

Grand Lodges usually exercise control over membership in any organization if membership in that organization requires Masonic membership.

The deal with SRICF is that the colleges have a specifically limited number of members, so if they have no openings, they give no invitations.

We have a couple of ballot boxes in our lodge (over the years we've gotten the "stuff" from Lodges that we absorbed when they went defunct.) One has white balls and black cubes, but the other has white and black balls. They feel exactly the same.