So the results are in: The Grand Lodge of Connecticut has chosen to elect several Past Grand Masters to the Grand Line. That such a thing should be done speaks to the rules and regulations which have been employed by the current Grand Master to allow for the effects of masonic jurisprudence to prevail in due course. The case was heard against GME Maxwell, and with succinct discretion thoroughly denied. After all, isn't it the intention of the man which must be judged, not the effect nor the perception. And we must ask ourselves what could possibly be the intention of a non political body in dragging a good mans reputation through the mud, when a simple concerned word of good council may have sufficed.
The truth is, most masons are politically minded, and we don't like our society of friends and brothers trifled with too terribly much, whether or not it survives into future ages. And especially we don't like anything that smacks of elitism. There is enough of that without the lodge.
The truth is, most masons are politically minded, and we don't like our society of friends and brothers trifled with too terribly much, whether or not it survives into future ages. And especially we don't like anything that smacks of elitism. There is enough of that without the lodge.
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