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Today, twelve southern Masonic Grand Lodges allegedly still forbid membership to blacks and "those of inferior race." This means that the appendant groups in the same states, such as the Shriners, also discriminate.

As stated in a book published by the Grand Lodge called "Masonry in Alabama" By Joseph Abram Jackson, Grand Historian, 1970:

"It was therefore resolved to not admit Negroes as Masons. The issue has remained the same for 150 years among Alabama Masons."

Last September, two Birmingham radio talk show hosts were fired after they outed Alabama Governor Bob Riley as a "racist Mason." Russ and Dee Fine were fired for asking:

"Does it bother you that the Governor of Alabama is a member of an organization that doesn't allow blacks to join?"

The utter irony of this all is that the resolution was presented to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

The solution to this resolution?

The Committee members need to springboard from Resolution 33 and demand that the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division and the IRS investigate the Masonic Grand Lodges' and Shriners' membership policies. If these groups are found to discriminate based on race, their non profit status should be suspended until they either comply with the laws of the land or are dissolved.

Anything else would be un-civilized.

HR 33 can be found at:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.RES.33.IH:

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