Dr. Gary Leazer was the SBC person assigned to investigate Freemasonry. He went in without prejudice, and reported that he found no conflict. And so he was fired and his report was edited without his permission. Gary since became a member of Clarkston 492 in an Atlanta suburb, and is now editor of the Georgia Masonic Messenger, a monthly magazine.
A summary of his report can be found at
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-mason...mentalism.html. The original closing line was:
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"We, therefore, with no hesitation, recommend the following: that the Southern Baptist Convention take a position neither for nor against Freemasonry and its related branches, and that membership in Freemasonry be left with the judgment of the individual."
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The actual SBC report can be found at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...Fencoding=UTF8.
Gary's edited passages, original and how changed, can be found at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/087...Fencoding=UTF8.