“The way you put it, the fraternity should also not allow it’s membership to eat meat on a Friday during lent when they are serving steak at a banquet they hold on said Friday and any of 1000s of other specific rules. It’s absolutely ridiculous.”
Hey, we disagree, that’s fine. And we aren’t talking about traditional dietary disciplines. We are talking about an organization who requires faith to be a member, and then allows membership even if that faith SPECIFICALLY forbids its adherents to become members of the group in question. It’s not a question of only allowing folks whose faith is practiced in an orthodox manner, it’s a question of a particular faith officially forbidding its members to belong to a specific group, and that group allowing them as members anyhow. To me, that would seem to defeat the purpose of having a requirement of faith in the first place.
Are LDS still barred from belonging to certain lodges?
Freegards
Didn’t see the LDS question...don’t know for sure. I imagine not, if the LDS’s believe in a source being.
I was thinking of this on how to help you understand rather that get frustrated with your sense of logic. Here’s the deal. We don’t require that you belong to a religion. We require the belief in God, however you define Him. They don’t ask what your Religion is. You simply must be of legal age, an upstanding citizen (no felons), believe in a supreme being and be well recommended.