Yes, it is somewhat puzzling to ponder why, if we have decided on principle not to take any money from those Freemasons anyway, why are we bothering to ask them for money in the first place? No one ever said that made any sense, but even so, what is an appropriate way to withdraw from an uncomfortably awkward deal without killing the poor misguided messenger? The Freemasons perhaps have their own mystical thing going that nobody understands, but whatever, it is a free country and we should not be interfering with their right of fee association, constitutionally speaking.