....what?..... Yacht clubs? Earlier, in connection with my comment about non-mason exclusion from clubs and club committees, etc, you wrote:-
The line drawn was a disgrace. A young police officer (a mason hardly acquainted with sailing) would be received, but a well known local historic vessel restorer would be excluded. That historic vessel restorer's son married a Senior Mason's daughter, and so that young man was received into the club........ (which tells you everything that you need to know about that young man's integrity).
Honestly, a successful yacht chandler (not a mason) would be excluded because he was a 'trader', and yet the owner of the sail-making and rigging company next door would be received; that particular man so senior in Masonry that when he told a really bad joke, everybody would fall about in pretentious laughter.
So I was intimately acquainted with hundreds of masons......... knew who they were. Which is how I knew that you were sooooo wrong about such behaviours. I remember one senior mason who was caught smuggling goods into a local port to evade customs-dues..... he put the fear of God into the Customs officer, explaining how quickly that quite elderly ex-serviceman's job, position and income could be affected if would proceed with a detention. That very brave man proceeded, and the smuggler was convicted and shamed. Masons used their connections to any extent required.
Police who are Masons are now being banned from working on some investigations into corruption, cover-ups and injustices. Says it all, really.
Your Lodge is no-doubt a good, upstanding, wholesome and decent group, committed to the welfare of those in need and general goodness, and an open book to all ..... but some of our lot are beginning to look like some kind of discreet mafia.....
