[nopardons]

First of all, only

SHRINERS

wear a fez and only a VERY few actual drive wee cars IN PARADES.

While ALL Shriners are Masons, not all Masons are Shriners!

Just WHAT is with you people's obsession with Shriner parade cars, anyway? And they are NOT "go-carts"!

uglybiker, please ping the gang. I'll be back, to join in the fray.

[sully777]

Who cares about Shriner's parade cars? Damn those Mummers!

[blackie]

Back in the day when catholics were burning folks at the stake, they may have gotten a Mason inadvertently and started all of this silliness. >:-}

Two Catholics were members of my Masonic Lodge when I lived in SF Bay Area.

[BlackElk]

I am a long-term (40+years) member of the Knights of Columbus and I never cease to be amused by the goodwill, sense of humor, and great charitable generosity of the local Shriners zipping around in their "go-karts."

I will obey my Church and never seek admission to the Masonic Order because of the sharp differences between Catholicism and Masonry. I cannot very well admire the details of the 30th Degree ritual or several others.

Nonetheless, I have been privileged to know many individual Masons and to know them as good and decent and patriotic men who give their order a good name by the example of their lives, their camaraderie and their charity. If the Masons are in numerical decline, that cannot be good news for our nation.