Thanks, Free, VC. Just gonna say went to my favorite and safest meeting last night and it helped big time. Not gonna get into particulars, but the individual in question has a reputation so toxic everyone knew whom I was talking about. This is in a town 15 miles away, BTW. There are people with 25-30 years sober that switched meetings because of that individual.
"Take what you need, leave the rest" is probably good advice for everybody in any recovery modality. And I am skeptical of pure orthodoxy in any form. They say that "wine makes a great servant, but a terrible master"--true, but that's also true of AA. Putting anybody, or anything, on a pedestal, is a dangerous expectation, and as AA itself says, an expectation is just a resentment waiting to happen. And if part of the purpose of a HP is understanding that HP is not you, it is axiomatic that it's not any other fallible human being, either.
Great opportunity to reiterate, and be grateful for, SR is a 24/7/365 safe and welcome environment. I never hesitate to come here or share, and that is indeed unique.