Well I went back to the lodge that raised me a couple of weeks ago.......I sought dual membership in another lodge due to the mausoleum-like nature of my mother lodge (i.e., it's nearly dead).
Big mistake. I had to listen to a tirade against the youth of today, "all they want is booze and video games and are not interested in the tenets of masonry...blah blah blah" and "one-day Masons are not brothers and the Vancouver lodges just run hundreds of them through and too many of these wave a dues card in my face" etc etc ad nauseum.
So here I sit, the current Senior Deacon of one of those slandered lodges, ready to throw my apron on the alter, sign out and go berserk with the Tylers sword. However calmer thoughts prevailed and I merely left as soon as the interminably boring and pointless meeting was over.
I cannot believe that a PM and former District Deputy would engage in such un-Masonic slander. It is also mind-boggling that some members, while bemoaning the slide towards oblivion by lodges such as this one, still refuse to appreciate what strengths young men of today can bring to a lodge.
No young Mason asks that the ancient landmarks be changed, none are begging for beer kegs and strippers, and yet too many older brothers view these young men as cowans, thieves and interlopers.
This must stop before we alienate an entire generation.
