However I really dont expect white masons to accept this. Light? Please. They couldnt recognize the TRUE LIGHT if it suddenly appeared in a dark, pitch Black room.

As a matter of fact, most of the Southern racist Masons imposter Masons cant even read their rituals, due to illteracy, let alone comprehend the true “mysteries” of the Craft….A joke.

Your time is up……

If the Grand Master was so intent on just settling the matter by bringing everything out in the open, then why did he schedule the trial for a tiny weeny conference room that could hold only 8 people? If he really wanted to be the peace maker here why has he not come out with any healing proclamations? Why has he not drafted a resolution to all Lodges that this will never happen again? Why is he not making it plain that the Grand Lodge stands 100% behind racial integration of Georgia Mainstream Masonic Lodges?

In fact if he really was against this trial and those who were bringing charges, why did he allow it to go on in the first place? Why not rule right away that the charges and trial were illegal and that the raising of the Black man was legal and was going to stay that way? Only after intense public and private pressure was brought to bear on the Grand Lodge of Georgia were the charges dropped. Yet we still do not know the fate of Gate City 2 Lodge. Will its charter be pulled and the Lodge closed?

Gate City 2 Lodge is the Lodge that brought us the great testimony of its guest speaker, a Catholic Priest, on the Catholic Church and Freemasonry. I have been told that this foray into that subject was not well received by the Grand Lodge and that Gate City 2 received many criticisms that they were not conducting Freemasonry as it should be done, that they were veering off into subjects of controversy better left alone.

Finally my source inside has dried up which can only mean that a gag order has been installed by the Grand Master with severe consequences if violated. From now on we are only going to hear official pronouncements and only after all the dust has settled and this crisis is old news.

Let’s just see if heads are going to roll or if there will be an attempt here to make Georgia law explicitly clear without repercussion to those who acted as Freemasons should.

I am not persuaded by Ed Jennings statement. I suppose as an attorney I am wary ot testimony that doesn’t match up with the facts as I know them.

First there is what I know about John.John Holt has won nearly every award in every appendant body and the blue lodge. He is not only an amazing mason, but an amazing man. Even at 82 I know for a fact he visited other lodges regularly and spent most of his week with his masonic family doing his job.

Second is the timing of Jennings move for John to resign. He says it wasn’t the Gate City incident, but it happened only days after that hit the press. The timing doesn’t make much sense to me.

Third, Ed has taken an amazing amount of timing in responding to these events, and from what I have seen could have avoided much of the controversy if he had acted more quickly and ended this more cleanly.

I appreciate that we should take each other at our word, but surely that must be measured against reason. If a mason showed up to lodge dressed in a bear costume and told me it was a tuxedo, I wouldn’t say, well he is a brother and he says its a tuxedo, it must be one. I would weigh my trust in the brother against the abilities of reason I possess.

I’m not sure what people thought Ed would say, “You caught me red handed, I am a racist and I forced John to resign for pay back.” ?

He learned a lesson form Starling Hicks and Douglas Ethridge, don;t write down your bad deeds for everyone to see.

I think maybe everyone is just a little to ready for this to be over, and they are willing to sacrifice good masons to not have to read anymore negative press.

Bro. J Luis, I certainly appreciate all that you have written. Thank you for bringing a voice of reason to the discussion. I also do not believe that even in Georgia, freemasonry promotes racism, but there certainly are some who are bigoted if not actually racist. (There is a big difference.)

I would also suggest that freemasonry also doesn’t promote stinginess (lack of charity), lack of brotherly love, dishonety, or class distinctions.Ii would be willing to bet that there are men in your own lodge–and every lodge represented in this discussion–who are guilty of all those. Are you asking them to leave? I dare say not.

As masons, I believe we all meet on the level with our many imperfections, short comings, and personal demons. We are, none of us, perfect ashlars, we are only working on the temples that we hope to perfect by using the tools of a master mason.

So, again, I would ask the man who is without sin to cast the first stone. I reiterate, that since “racism” (which is sometimes a catch-all phrase for politically incorrect thoughts or statements which are not racist at all) is a hot button, many are ready to jump on the bandwagon to attack Georgia, and yet I hear that racism is tolerated in other lodges, the “wink and nod” variety. While I disagree with the brothers who filed the misguided charges, at least they weren’t simply winking and nodding like your brothers who do.

I am convinced that inconsistent applications of rules and intolerance is itself as wrong and duplicitous as bigotry or racism. All are less than masonic behavior. If you choose not to recognize someone from Gerogia as a brother, so be it.