Women in Freemasonry

Dawn Robel · 05-20-2006, 10:43 PM

What states in the US allow women to join the freemasons and what could I expect as a female?

D. W. Brown · 05-20-2006, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Dawn Robel

What states in the US allow women to join the freemasons and what could I expect as a female?

As I stated too you in the introductions forum, there are areas that do allow women to join. We have a whole section of links dedicated to sites that serve the co-masonry adjenda HERE and of course we do not descriminate against women here at TheBlueLodge.org

dpdeleon · 12-30-2006, 07:34 PM

Since Masonry is a fraternity it doesn't admit women (who knows what'll happen in the future though). What I've heard of for women is co-masonry or Eastern Star. Hope you find what you're looking for.

twinzo2 · 01-03-2007, 01:22 AM

Join the Order of the Eastern Star's

fmfveteran · 01-03-2007, 08:18 AM

Yeah, join the Eastern Stars. Women aren't in possession.

tarant8l · 10-07-2008, 02:04 PM

There's gossip that Ron Paul's wife joined Eastern Star? Also his father was allegedly Mason?

Jayman · 10-07-2008, 02:24 PM

Does the Grand Orient extend membership to Women?

cgedmonds · 10-07-2008, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Jayman

Does the Grand Orient extend membership to Women?

No only recoginizes the female orders

Bro. Shabazz · 10-10-2008, 07:57 PM

Brothers think back to your oblagations no woman can become a master mason none.

TM274 · 10-11-2008, 07:54 AM

Freemasonry is immemorial and has stood(so far) the test of time and it's largely due to the dedicated bretheren who have held it's secrets close to their heart. This is the way it should be forever onward. We now live in society where women have progressed vastly in industry and all manner of life.......and it's rightly so as their minds are just as intellectually sharp and capable of MAN.
I have no qualms with women in Freemasonry, except that of MAINSTREAM, where men have given so much to keep the secrets handed down from other good men, who have since passed on.
Women are quite free to form their own Lodges and follow their own beliefs and keep the secrets handed down to them by their Sisters.
I have been handed the secrets and nowhere does it say, that I should hand them down to a "SISTER", therefore I cannot accept any woman in my Lodge as I pledged to keep the secrets and only to pass them onto a Fellow MM.
The admission of women into Mainstream Logdes would require vast changes to our rituals and I for one would like to keep our rituals as pristine as I found them, when I joined.
It must be remembered that not all men who wish to join are accepted.

I must add that this is NOT a sexist statement, but one of tradition, which I am sworn to uphold.
There are many womens Lodges springing up around this globe and I don't begrude that fact. In time, theirs will be a truly WOMEN'S maternity which no man can enter. I wish them well in their endeavors.