Originally Posted by
Ago 
They miss where Bill wrote "AA must always be all inclusive, never exclusive" You are a member if You say you are, and the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
On the inside cover-jacket of the third edition of the Big Book it says that the official AA message is "the first 164 pages of the Big Book".
Some of your arguments come from other sources outside of this
THUMPER" realm.
"AA must always be all inclusive, never exclusive"
Not in the first 164 pages of the Big Book.
"You are a member if You say you are"
Not in the first 164 pages of the Big Book.
"The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking"
Not in the first 164 pages of the Big Book - It is contained in the 3rd Tradition but comes after the 1st Tradition, "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity"
Having AA members who admit only that they are addicts or bi-polar goes against the 1st Tradition. In my opinion, the 1st Tradition is MORE important than the 3rd Tradition simply because it is the principle tradition.
It also parallels the "singleness of purpose" concept that keeps AA from falling into the same "we can fix everyone" trap that the 1906 Emmanuel Movement of Boston fell victim to.