March 2, 1997
At first glance, the auditorium owned by the Shriners is not exactly
the kind of place you'd expect to find the annual Expo of the
Metropolitan Business Association. But there are some eerie parallels
between the two groups. Check this out:
Both organizations are the public personae of what were once secret
societies:
To become a Shriner, you must be a holder of the 33rd degree of the
Order of Masons. Now, the Masons are an ancient and mystical society
which has been connected by nearly everybody to nearly every historical
event of any (sinister) importance since the Crusades. (See the Universal
Conspiracy Against Everything).
And members of the MBA are all either homosexuals or homo-friendly,
making them members of a group which has been similarly linked to a wide
variety of historical, social and moral phenomena of a calamitous
nature. (See for instance KEN - The Doll, The Myth: Sexuality, Plastic, and AIDS).
And then there's the parade thing:
Now, I know that there are members of both the MBA and the Shriners who
wouldn't be caught dead in either a clown suit or a bondage harness, but
let's be honest, plenty of em' would, and plenty of em' would do it on
Orange Avenue in beautiful downtown Orlando at high noon. And by god,
I've got pictures to prove it! (These you may have to pay for!)
And how about those elaborate rituals.
I've never seen any of the secret rituals of the Masons; they are
secret, though according to one Mason "More than one false brother has
chosen to reveal the entire contents of the Masonic ritual to the
public." Ditto some of the false sisters of the MBA. Why just last year
at the MBA Expo I saw a bizarre ceremony in which a man dressed like a
woman danced and made ritual hand gestures apparently familiar to all
who attended.
There's more, no doubt, but it's probably best for you to draw your own
conclusions. Come on down to the MBA Expo at the Shriner's Auditorium in March.
Nan Schultz
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