Post by Tamrin on Nov 27, 2010 6:54:09 GMT 10
Spanish Freemasons urged to admit women
[Translated excerpt - Article, diariodemallorca.es - Linked Above (thanks Bill MFoL)]
[Translated excerpt - Article, diariodemallorca.es - Linked Above (thanks Bill MFoL)]
F.G. Palma. The inclusion of women to its lodges, with full rights, currently divides Freemasonry. Equality of rights between the sexes was advocated yesterday at the Club Diario de Mallorca by Rafael Fernandez de Castro, a Master Mason with the Symbolic Grand Lodge of Spain and Sovereign Grand Inspector General, 33°, of the Masonic Supreme Council of Spain.
The inclusion of women is advocated by liberal and freethinking Freemasons, clearly a minority in Balears, with our 30 members, including Fernandez de Castro. Confronting this position, is [so-called] regular masonry, strongly influenced by England, which rejects the admission of women [to lodges] in the [Balearic] islands and consists of about 400 members, almost half of whom are British and German residents.
Under the heading Present masonry, from within, Rafael Fernandez de Castro drew attention to the increasing support the liberal branch [of Freemasonry] is achieving, which has allowed the admission of women to lodges in nearby countries like Portugal, France, Italy, Morocco, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece and Rumania, and insisted that in the climate of the 21st century it is "irrational" to maintain their exclusion.
The inclusion of women is advocated by liberal and freethinking Freemasons, clearly a minority in Balears, with our 30 members, including Fernandez de Castro. Confronting this position, is [so-called] regular masonry, strongly influenced by England, which rejects the admission of women [to lodges] in the [Balearic] islands and consists of about 400 members, almost half of whom are British and German residents.
Under the heading Present masonry, from within, Rafael Fernandez de Castro drew attention to the increasing support the liberal branch [of Freemasonry] is achieving, which has allowed the admission of women to lodges in nearby countries like Portugal, France, Italy, Morocco, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece and Rumania, and insisted that in the climate of the 21st century it is "irrational" to maintain their exclusion.
How sad that England, once the mother of liberal democracy, is seen to be an obstacle in this case.
