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Old 08-23-2009, 04:56 PM
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Pinkcuda
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Please show me where it says meetings are for "real alcoholics" only.
It's right here in black and white. This is one of the countless places where it is written that Alcoholics Anonymous is for Alcoholics. This is tradition three as you quoted but is the long form.
#3.) Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity. Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. Group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
"Sobriety" in AA is defined as "The freedom from alcohol through the practice and teaching of the twelve steps"
Therefore, if we are there for "sobriety" we must be able to honestly take all 12 steps as I said.
This is not simply "My Opinion" this is what the book says.
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