“50.
Would Conference pass a
recommendation that the General Service Board of Alcoholics
Anonymous, as guardians of the Twelve Traditions, condemn the actions
of Intergroups and Regions, which exclude registered AA
groups, and individual AA members from exercising their right of
participation in our service structure?
Background
A
registered AA group in Bournemouth, South West Region, and its
members have for 7 years been excluded from participating in their
local Intergroups, despite repeated attempts to join. [Let's
make it 8 years, and then 9 and then …..]
This
AA group, which is to be found on the National list of AA meetings,
has donated thousands of pounds directly to GSO, as local Intergroups
have consistently declined its donations. [Anybody
can get listed nationally. There are no checks carried out. Go on!
Try it out! Make up some daft group name and apply for registration!.
And of course the local intergroups are going to decline a cult
group's donations. The real question is why is GSO accepting them?]
No
credible reason has ever been given for these clearly discriminatory
actions. Does any service board ever have a credible reason for
excluding any group to which it is directly responsible and which it
serves?
(Tradition
9) [Untrue.
See: Bournemouth Road to Recovery group]
These
actions have created disunity locally and diverted attention away
from efforts to carry the AA message. [Untrue.
The existing intergroup and groups are positively thriving without
the participation of the Bournemouth cult group. And no one can claim that the Bournemouth cult group EVER carried the AA message!]
Many
members have been left feeling very insecure in the Fellowship that
saved or could have saved their lives. Some may have left AA all
together. [Many
members leave AA and some die because of the cult groups. See
Bournemouth Road to Recovery suicide]
Very
willing and competent AA members have been denied the right to serve
in the local service structure. [Untrue.
Bournemouth members can hardly claim to be competent. Competent
implies responsible – a quality completely lacking amongst the cult
membership]
This
right should never be denied any AA member based on membership of a
particular group. [It's not a right – it's a
privilege]
Failure
by the GSB to express any views on this disgraceful state of affairs,
may well have been deemed as approval of their actions by local
Intergroups. [Untrue. GSO has made its position
quite clear. It's ultra vires
as far as they're concerned]
In
any organisation where discrimination takes place it is the role of
the leadership of that organisation to take a clear stand. [GSO
has. See above]
Up
till now the GSB has shirked on its responsibility and alcoholics
could well have died as a result of this inactivity. [Again untrue.
See above. We know for a fact that many alcoholics have already died
because of the cult's activities. See Medications and Recovery]
Similar
actions go on unchallenged in other parts of AA in the UK.
[Excellent. Let's hope this trend spreads with the exclusion of
further cult groups from participation in the service structure. See
our Cult Where to Finds:
o
Tradition 1
o
Tradition 3
o
Tradition 4
o
Concepts 4, 9 and 12.
Terms
of Reference No. 7 From the supplied background material this is a
local issue”
Comment:
We can expect no doubt the Bournemouth Road to Recovery cult group's
complaints to appear again next year in 'Questions that didn't quite
make it'
See
here
for a full list of other questions that didn't quite get through the
'filter'
Cheers
The
Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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