Very well said.
While people like me still think: "No smoke without fire", surely it's in Mason's own interests to declare their membership, and thereby help to rid us all of our prejudices about the secrecy and potential for corruption. It's like DNA profiling - only the guilty have anything to fear.
That's in society at large. In the Police or the Forces, I'd still rather be safe than sorry.
Adastral,
It's not the goat that worries me, it's you lot laughing at my legs when I roll up the old trouser-leg.
JN