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From: kdAaDPHsuba
Date: 27 Apr 2012
Time: 01:23:32 -0700
Remote Name: 188.143.232.12
The prohibition is not to speak in the Lodge about PARTISAN picotils and SECTARIAN religion. This means specifics about specific positions, bills in Congress, party proselytizing and religious dogma and catechism is definitely forbidden. But a more general discussion of broad general ideas and placing the Craft squarely behind them surely is not out of line. Are you going to tell me it would be wrong for Freemasons to discuss peace, education, prayer? Is it forbidden for Freemasons to promote Liberty without specifically aligning themselves with any particular person or proposal. Surely we can discuss IDEAS that are not PARTISAN OR SECTARIAN. Most who are critical have denounced the discussion of picotils in Lodge. You need to reread the post. Nowhere did I ever recommend the discussion of picotils or religious dogma or the promotion of either by Freemasons in or out of the Lodge room. Nor did the entire message. However, I would be in favor of allowing IDEAS to be considered. It seems that many are so super sensitive on this issue (and uninformed) that they would muzzle Freemasons needlessly and thus close avenues where Masons could be of tremendous help to society.