Tag Thompson lost his brothers the day the letter arrived.
Months earlier, when the first letter had come, the men had gathered in an Irish pub downtown to discuss. To commiserate. To strategize.
But this letter, dated March 15, 2021, and addressed to “Brother Thompson,” severed his relationships with those men.
“I don’t think I can express how close we were. We went through divorces together. We went through deaths together. We went through, when my ex-wife had surgery one time, there was nobody in the waiting room except for like seven Freemasons that came to just sit with me. So, yeah,” Thompson said, his voice cracking with emotion at this thought. “So, we were incredibly, incredibly close.”
What began as a 42-word Facebook post in October 2020 resulted in Thompson’s expulsion from Freemasonry five months later, stripping the ordained minister of a brotherhood he loved.