From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... affiliation."
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence:
"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."
2.
... affiliation.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
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.
3.
... affiliation.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
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.
4.
... affiliation or
endorsement, actual or implied.
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never to go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or
implied.
5.
... affiliation or
endorsement, actual or implied.
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or
implied.
6.
... affiliation, we
include Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
By personal religious
affiliation, we include Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, and a sprinkling
of Moslems and Buddhists.
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