Freemasons are bt known for their secrecy, but they are havg a very public dispute — about a ban on gay members. Freemasons Tennsee will ci this week whether to lift the ban.
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FOR FREEMASONS, IS BANNG GAYS OR BEG GAY UN-MASONIC?
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For Freemasons, Is Banng Gays Or Beg Gay Un-Masonic? The anizatn is known for secrecy, but 's havg an creasgly public dispute: For the past 30 years, the Tennsee group has banned gays (each state or jurisdictn has s own penal ). The spensn of Clark and Henrson Tennsee spired the Grand Lodge of Geia to enact s own ban on gay members last fall.
"When a young man hears that Masons a state are throwg gays out, they jt see that as the whole anizatn dog that and not beg isolated to a particular area, " Hodapp says. Over the next two days Nashville, the Grand Lodge of Tennsee will ci which nduct is more un-Masonic — beg gay or banng gays — a cisn that uld affect Freemasons around the world. In November 2016, a proment Dallas-area Baptist church st a 577-367 vote to extend full membership to homosexually active people, cludg learship ordatn and marriage officiatn.
My first qutn was: how did a Texas Baptist church start out examg the same-sex dilemma facg the Church and then move to full affirmatn of homosexually active behavr? And y, we have had a number of gay Christians jo the church. “The majory of people—and there’s more than 100 now who have joed sce the vote, maybe about 120 at this pot—are not gay, but they want to be a church that has no rtrictns on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, ” said Mason.