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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... reform.   12&12 p.157, Tradition Six
A.A.'s commenced to thump tables in legislative committee rooms and agitated for legal reform.


2.
... reform.   BB p.95, Working With Others   Go to page 95 in the Big Book
You will be most successful with alcoholics if you do not exhibit any passion for crusade or reform.

3.
... reform America's drinking habits.   12&12 p.178, Tradition Ten
Maybe the society could have survived the abolition controversy, but it didn't have a chance from the moment it determined to reform America's drinking habits.

4.
... reform argument among A.A. members.   12&12 p.176, Tradition Ten
It could almost be said that we were born with it, for, as one oldtimer recently declared, "Practically never have I heard a heated religious, political, or reform argument among A.A. members.

5.
... reform movement?   12&12 p.156, Tradition Six
Was it a reform movement?

6.
... reform, or sectarian religion.   12&12 p.192, Tradition Ten (Long)
Ten -- No A.A. group or member should ever, in such a way as to implicate A.A., express any opinion on outside controversial issues -- particularly those of politics, alcohol reform, or sectarian religion.


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... reform, or sectarian religion.   BB p.565(567), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
10. No A.A. group or member should ever, in such a way as to implicate A.A., express any opinion on outside controversial issues -- particularly those of politics, alcohol reform, or sectarian religion.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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