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Hi !
Below please find an article on possible bias at the Southern Baptist
Convention on a decision about the Masons.
Sincerely, Neil Brick
Please note: all accusations are alleged
The following article is from the Chattanooga Free Press, 11/23/96, Page B2.
The article titled "Investigator of Masonry Joins Ga. Masonic Lodge" was
written by the Associated Baptist Press (Atlanta).
"The author of a controversial Southern Baptist Convention study of
Freemasonry has decided to become a Mason. Gary Leaser, whose 1993 study
disappointed those Baptists seeking a condemnation of the Masonic Lodge and
eventually led to his firing at the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board..."
"In the October edition of "CIS Masonic report", a publication of
Leazer's Center for Interfaith Studies... reported that he had petitioned for
membership in Masonic Lodge No. 492 in Clarkston, GA...He received...the
first of three degrees in basic Masonry - Sept. 17."
Larry Holly, a Texas physician, criticized Leazer's study, alleging that
Leazer "fraternized too closely with the lodge during his study, leading to
bias in his report."
"At the SBC annual meeting in 1993, messengers adopted a Home Mission
Board report that drew on Leazer's study, but they found some conflict
between Christianity and Freemasonry. The report however refused a blanket
condemnation of Freemasonry..."
Larry Holly alleges, "Gary Leazer has declared what has been true for a
long time; he is now a public, out-of-the-closet Mason," Holly wrote in a
posting dated Nov. 13. "Isn't it wonderful that the HMB now has an official
statement on Freemasonry which was essentially written by a Freemason...."
Leazer defends the objectivity of his study, "I knew nothing about
Freemasonry when I began the study, so I could hardly be called a closet
Mason."
The Home Mission refuses to revisit the study of Freemasonry, but the
Interfaith Witness Department released a new pamphlet critical of Masonic
teachings in "A Closer Look at "A Bridge to Light."" written by William
Gordon.
Additional information on the 1993 conference can be found in "The Dark
Side of Freemasonry" edited by Ed Decker, Huntington House Publishers
(1-800-749-4009), pages 217-223. The following information comes from this
book.
"A letter surfaced during the study, written by Leazer to one of the
Masonic leaders, thanking him for all the help and making several
depreciating remarks concerning those who were opposed to the lodge." (P.
217) Leazer was removed as head of the study, but he and the study continued
on at HMB without correction.
"The Leazer affair proved that without doubt that the Masons...were
involved with the report...." (P.219)
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