Grand Orange Lodge

Grand Lodge’s inward-looking resolutions focus on flags,marriage and a one-sided shared future?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on July 10, 2013, 12:00 pm

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The outward march on the Twelfth of July leads each Orange lodge to ‘the field’. As well as picnics, burger vans, bouncy castles and stalls, there is a service of worship and speeches. A set of resolutions compiled centrally by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland are read out at each field. The resolutions give an insight into what’s occupying the minds of the Grand Lodge. This year the first two resolutions cover The Faith and Loyalty, acknowledging religious freedom …

“it appears that we are in a situation where the Kirk can no longer command high public regard and influence”

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on July 3, 2012, 6:40 pm

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The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland wasn’t the only loyal institution speaking out today. [See Mick’s earlier post about grand secretary Drew Nelson’s speech to the Seanad in Dublin.] The Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland have issued a vote of no confidence in the Church of Scotland as they publish their annual resolutions that will be read out after the religious service that follows the Twelfth parades. It is a sad reflection that, in today’s society, many Protestants now consider …