https://www.aa.org/the-twelve-traditions
https://www.aa.org/sites/default/files/2022-01/en_tradition3.pdf
"The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking."
Long Form of Tradition 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."
This Tradition is packed with meaning. For A.A. is really saying to every
serious drinker, "You are an A.A. member if you say so. You can declare
yourself in; nobody can keep you out. No matter who you are, no matter how low
you've gone, no matter how grave your emotional complications - even your
crimes - we still can't deny you A.A. We don't want to keep you out. We
aren't a bit afraid you'll harm us, never mind how twisted or violent you may
be. We just want to be sure that you get the same great chance for sobriety
that we've had. So you're an A.A. member the minute you declare yourself."
To establish this principle of membership took years of harrowing experience. . . .
Note to myself: 12by12.txt
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