The Shriners Are a Fraternity Based on the Masonic Principles

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Multiple Choice

The Shriners are a fraternity based on the Masonic principles of brotherly love,relief,and truth.They have roughly 375,000 members and 191 temples in the United States,Canada,and Mexico.The Shriners support Shriners Hospitals for Children,a system of twenty-two hospitals dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing specialty pediatric care.What prohibits the Shriners from being a social movement?

• A) It is hard to imagine membership in the Shriners transforming anyone's life.
• B) They are not dedicated enough to their work.
• C) They do not seek to alter the status quo.
• D) They do not have an ideological commitment.

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