From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... reform.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
2.
... reform.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
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.
7.
... reform, or
sectarian religion.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
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.
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