Talk:Grand Lodge of Texas

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Why is this page even here? While I accept there's some variance between Northern and Southern Jurisdictions in the United States, honestly they don't merit more than a footnote.

There are more differences, sometimes quite radical differences, between ritual, practice and other procedural matters in lodges within ten miles of each other under the Grand Lodge of Scotland than in the whole United States.

Nuttyskin 03:38, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

The above editor (Nuttyskin) questions the need for a page (article) on the Grand Lodge of Texas, A.F. & A.M. He seems to argue that the "ritual, practice and ... procedural" differences between various U.S. grand lodges are insufficient to warrant separate pages or articles for separate and independent U.S. grand lodges. However, his reference to "variance between Northern and Southern Jurisdictions in the United States" (see above) indicates that he does not understand the difference between a craft grand lodge (like the Grand Lodge of Texas) and the Scottish Rite supreme councils of the northern and southern jurisdictions (which are appendant bodies). The simple (and obvious) answer to his question is that there is a page for the Grand Lodge of Texas, A.F. & A.M., because it is a distinct, separate and independent corporate entity, not to mention an historic entity. Further, it is not a subordinate nor constituent body of any larger organization. As a craft grand lodge it is not a part of either the southern or northern masonic jurisdictions, which are Scottish Rite organizations, and not craft organizations. The question itself betrays the questioners limited understanding of the subject matter.PGNormand 05:10, 23 September 2006 (UTC)