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Lodges, while at one time pillars of the local community, isn't the same thing. All the groups mentioned, are/were pretty exclusionary. I believe all of these o

Lodges, while at one time pillars of the local community, isn't the same thing. All the groups mentioned, are/were pretty exclusionary. I believe all of these organizations either currently are, or were historically strictly male. (Perhaps, the VFW was always open to women, but with the military requirement, it still has a strong a filter.) Furthermore, all of these organizations are for adults. While religious services and fellowship opportunities are for the whole family, you can't exactly bring a 3 year old to a Kiwanis club. You need an thing for all ages.

krschultz 11y ago
But you can bring a 6 year old to a Kiwanis club meeting so I wouldn't write it off so quickly. I was in the Kiwanis club in middle school and ran our high school chapter, it was definitely a good organization. I'm not sure it fights the article's definition of a secular group though, it honestly just felt like a charity that organized volunteering efforts pretty frequently. My purpose was 100% to pad my resume for college so I dropped it to the wayside pretty quickly, but in retrospect it was a pretty good organization.