Why does Vitruvian want to open stated meetings on the EA degree?
Two reasons: First, we tell EAs that they are Masons, but we tell them that they aren’t Masons enough to attend our meetings, where we enjoy fellowship and opportunities for Masonic education. EAs have the most need to attend our meetings, because we do not know them as well and because they have the greatest need of Masonic education. Second, opening stated meetings on EA is the rule everywhere in the world but the U.S. This became the case following the Baltimore Convention which was inspired by the anti-Masonic period of the early 1800s. The reasons for the change are no longer legitimate (if they ever were), and it’s time for American Freemasonry to adopt — or actually, to re-adopt — the practices of the rest of the world.
