tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312826199921098655.post4505081936355800907..comments2023-12-04T03:37:31.401-05:00Comments on The Hedge Mason: The Moral Irregularity of Florida's Mainstream LodgesE C Ballard ஃhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15467348696099148972noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312826199921098655.post-85171488049924869922013-04-12T21:42:15.008-04:002013-04-12T21:42:15.008-04:00Dear Bro. Fred,
If in a state the size of Florida...Dear Bro. Fred,<br /><br />If in a state the size of Florida with the population of blacks and latinos that they have there, someone found a black mainstream mason, that is condemnation enough. In all that state you find A black mainstream mason? Really. You could not be more spot on, brother Fred. E C Ballard ஃhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15467348696099148972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312826199921098655.post-24458748830500419542013-04-12T19:00:09.332-04:002013-04-12T19:00:09.332-04:00I remember receiving comments on the story that I ...I remember receiving comments on the story that I wrote that I was full of baloney that they had found a Black Mainstream Mason in Florida. Well Georgia has one also and Texas at least a half a dozen. Most of these instances are in "liberal" pockets of acceptance often in University towns. But the occasional token Mainstream Masonic Black doesn't really change the story. If anything it proves how wrong Confederate Masonry is.<br /><br />Frederic L. Milliken<br />MWPHGLTXFrederic L. Millikenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00375574953455842623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312826199921098655.post-2869591656100471932013-03-04T15:15:50.820-05:002013-03-04T15:15:50.820-05:00Some of us in the south would like to see other Gr...Some of us in the south would like to see other Grand Lodges withdraw Amity from some of our Grand Lodges. While we do what we can within, you can bring pressure from without. Things are changing - some locations faster than others - but perhaps not as promptly as we may wish for. Pressure from without might be just the catalyst we need to make a quickening. Can you imagine a day when virtually every Grand Lodge recognizes Prince Hall & the GOdF, but they all withdraw from Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida? It is a day worth imagining.Kyle Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10733337578335486377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312826199921098655.post-52864775777748017952012-12-28T17:22:01.819-05:002012-12-28T17:22:01.819-05:00Perhaps they will. However, you and I both know th...Perhaps they will. However, you and I both know that such events have occurred and doubtlessly innumerable times! With a system so corrupt that it attempts systematically to cover its own tracks, the only option is to raise a stink about it. E C Ballard ஃhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15467348696099148972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3312826199921098655.post-40643669377183855462012-12-28T14:00:46.682-05:002012-12-28T14:00:46.682-05:00Returning again to that observation that to the be...<i>Returning again to that observation that to the best of Bro. Milliken's knowledge no other mainstream jurisdiction has every publicly criticized Florida for this practice; this is indefensible. Period. There is no need to qualify it in any way.</i><br /><br />The other GLs will say, like Br. Gerald Edgar says, that there's no proof, and all of these anonymous accusations are spurious - to use a comment internet phrase:<br />pics or it didn't happen.MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15904412888243979076noreply@blogger.com