| 1970 - 106 страници
...The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership. We are self-supporting through our own...organization, or institution, does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1971 - 1250 страници
...The only -requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are selfsupporting through our own...organization, or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and... | |
| J. P. Miller - 1973 - 56 страници
...The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking. AA has no dues or fees. It is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics,...organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 1988 - 524 страници
...The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership. We are self-supporting through our own...organization or institution, does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 1988 - 516 страници
...The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership. We are self-supporting through our own...organization or institution, does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and... | |
| Norman Kent Denzin - 1993 - 448 страници
...The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own...organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and... | |
| Robert L. DuPont, John P. McGovern - 1994 - 192 страници
...The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own...organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and... | |
| Richmond Walker - 1994 - 114 страници
...found to conflict with any religious doctrine, nor does it teach any. It is stated in our literature: 'AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution. It neither endorses nor opposes any causes.' We are not an organization in the conventional sense of... | |
| William May - 1991 - 268 страници
...that the AA Preamble, read at many AA meetings, distances itself from official religious institutions: "AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution. ..." AA also balks at the homiletical, evangelical tendencies of Protestant Christianity and the absolutism... | |
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