youngsandy
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Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
When first we practise to deceive!
Thank you Bro. Raymond Sean Walters for that information. I had the feeling after all "the guilding the lily" that somehow the truth would come out.
Where is it written that one Grand Lodge has to uphold the rulings, restrictions and obligations of another Grand Lodge?
It might be a tradition but it's not a Landmark.
I would think it is like any other system that has rules and laws.
If you cannot see the problem, then perhaps you should find another organization that allows for mistreatment of people, like the KKK, skinheads or some other domestic terrorist organization.
Suppose, then, that we in other GLs do threaten de-recognition, as perhaps you want us to do. Consider what we'd be saying: we'd be demanding that outsiders be allowed to micro-manage GLoWV's internal affairs right down to the level of dictating a particular procedure and even a particular outcome in a specific disciplinary case. If outsiders were allowed to dictate such internal proceedings in such detail, then GLoWV clearly would no longer be a sovereign body, and therefore couldn't qualify as a regular GL! So we'd effectively be demanding that GLoWV do something definitely irregular in order to rectify something allegedly irregular! We'd be putting them in an impossible position, because if they acceded to our demands then we wouldn't be able to re-recognise them afterwards for lack of sovereignty. This is not what the recognition system is intended to be used for, it'd be an abuse of process by the rest of us. We could only follow that path if it were the intention to cast GLoWV into the outer darkness permanently: it'd be a nuclear option, an attempt to destroy GLoWV altogether, not a means of rectifying one awkward situation. Recognising this potential, many GLs would loudly refuse to join a general de-recognition, and GLoWV would refuse to comply with the demands of those which de-recognised them, and we'd quite likely end up thereby with an insoluble deadlock and a permanent schism in masonry.