Are AA Members Agents of a Court?
February 8, 2009 by Mark
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
If you haven’t been following the conversation, it is at “Big Book Prayers.”
I haven’t been able to find the exact pamphlet Ray speaks about but I did find this on AA’s web site: “Cooperating with Court, D.W.I. and Similar Programs.”
My first question to my readers is this – would you feel more comfortable not signing court papers brought to AA by those mandated by a judge?
What appears to be happening is that, in the long run, there are those who claim AA is a religious organization therefore the court mandating violaters to AA is unconstitutional. When an AA member signs a paper (the AA pamphlet notwithstanding) we are acting as an agent of the court. Some folks are attempting to call this AA’s official platform. We know that is not true but they do have a voice. Do we want to allow that voice to drown out recovery?
IANAA – and I know of no law that requires me, as a member of AA or as a simple citizen, to sign that paper brought to me in an AA meeting.
What do you think?
