Shriners

Explain how the Shriners is a religious or quasi religious organization?

Shriner Car Injures 2 At Parade at cvillenews.com 2002

I can make one promise, though -- I will not present anyone with a story or manuscript and expect them to keep track of it for days at their card table at a freakin 'Shriners' convention for writers.

Getting Peachy 2007

See "Shriners" -- hell, even AIA conventions come under the old "Carnival" exemption, where civilized behavior gets forgotten.

Tuesday no-roadkill report jhetley 2006

Finally, I did not say that the Shriners were a religious organization in the same way that Catholics and Jews were.

Shriner Car Injures 2 At Parade at cvillenews.com 2002

Right now, our -- we've confirmed that 19 people have been transferred to four -- actually five Massachusetts hospitals, Brigham and Women's, Mass General, Shriners, which is associated there, UMass - Worcester, and St. Luke's.

CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2003 2003

The Minneapolis hospital opened in 1923, the third of what were then known as Shriners' "hospitals for crippled children."

StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

The Shriners are a worldwide fraternity of about 325,000 members, whose red fez hats, college football games and circus shows are as much a part of their history as hospitals.

StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

A pair of teenage girls watching the parade spent close to an hour squealing and waving, like the Shriners were a bunch of adorable, wrinkly puppies, and Queen's Park South was a shop window.

Torontoist 2010

'Shriners' meeting 'in the city, "mischievously supplemented Mary, who knew her Uncle's liking for the Masonic Lodge of which he was a member," and, "she continued," I brought you a picture for your birthday, which we shall celebrate tomorrow.

Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889

Organizations such as Shriners earn money from investing their endowments in a mix of stocks and bonds, which all have taken a hit during the economic downturn.

The Daily News - News 2009