Why don’t Masons talk about their membership?

Masons don’t conceal their membership, but equally don’t want to be wrongly accused of seeking to gain advantage from it. Also, despite excellent progress on equality in recent years, people still occasionally try to discriminate against us.

Some employers until recently used to ask whether staff were Freemasons (but would not dream of asking if they were gay, Jewish, left-handed or from an ethnic minority, of course).

Fortunately commonsense and the European Convention on Human Rights are making this sort of illegal discrimination increasingly rare.

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