“The United Grand Lodge of England believes that the ongoing gross misrepresentation of its 200,000 plus members is discrimination,” Staples said in the advert. Secret Freemasons should have no place in public life | Dawn Foster Read more“Our members shouldn’t have to feel undeservedly stigmatised. The Grand Lodge also said that nobody who joined the journalists’ lodge since 2000 had recorded their profession as a journalist. In its advert, the Grand Lodge said it valued honesty, integrity and service to the community above all else, and that last year its members raised more than £33m for good causes. “Though women have their own lodge I think the Grand Lodge will one day fully modernise and allow both sexes to mix – which will be great for the whole organisation and a day I look forward to.

Source: The Guardian February 08, 2018 16:07 UTC