To dispel accusations of secretiveness, shouldn Freemasonry be required to be more transparent?
No. First, a distinction has to be made between “secretive” which implies wrongdoing, and “secret” which simply means private. Freemasons are private citizens who believe in all peoples’ right to privacy. As regards transparency, Freemasonry is not a public organization; it is a private society composed of private citizens who exercise that freedom of association and right to privacy enjoyed by all private citizens in western nations. Privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights (10 December 1948), the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), and in many other international and regional treaties. For example, Canadians are protected by the Personal Information Privacy Act (13 April 2000) while Australians are protected by the Privacy Act 1988 (See ISBN 978-1-877079-60-3). That said, the names of elected leaders of masonic jurisdictions are often posted on their websites and contact information is often posted outside lodgeha
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