> So what was the Mason’s beef with Mormons? I guess I don’t get it.
To the best I can tell, outside of Utah we have never had a beef with the LDS. I don’t understand the historical beef there either. As each State in the US has its own Freemasonic constitution I guess they were free to come up with their own rules, and I couldn’t possibly comment on their rationale for banning LDS way back then.
Yeah, the article kinda skimps on an important aspect — what the beef was in the first place.
“religious tension within the organization escalated to the point that, in 1925, “the Utah Grand Lodge Code precluded any Mormon ... totally from any relationship whatsoever” with Masonry in Utah,”
The closest we get is that “religious tensions” within the Utah Grand Lodge had something to do with it. I reckon it could have been because Mormon religious ceremony is similar in form to Masonic ceremony, or because non-Mormons and Mormons were at such odds outside the lodge they couldn’t drop the beefing inside the Lodge. It is wierd that the Masons were the ones to ban the Mormons, one would think it would be the other way around considering the tolerance Masons usually express for differing religions. Could it be that the Mormons were treating Mason ceremony as a religious ceremony and thus were breaking the rule against talking about religion?
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