The Twelve Biggest Secrets of Alcoholics Anonymous

.....I'm not seeing Clara rushing to ally herself with you. Just put down as yet another imaginary friend...lol

danny's posts on JREF are making all AA members everywhere look exceedingly ignorant. He's an embarrassment to AA and doesn't even know when to quit to save face. At least alfie knew when he had thoroughly humiliated himself and left. LOL!

It's more than two. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as many other courts. Here are a few examples:

Kerr v. Farrey, 95 F. 3d 472 - Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit 1996:

A straightforward reading of the twelve steps shows clearly that the steps are based on the monotheistic idea of a single God or Supreme Being. True, that God might be known as Allah to some, or YHWH to others, or the Holy Trinity to still others, but the twelve steps consistently refer to "God, as we understood Him." Even if we expanded the steps to include polytheistic ideals, or animistic philosophies, they are still fundamentally based on a religious concept of a Higher Power. Kerr alleged, furthermore, that the meetings were permeated with explicit religious content. This was therefore not a case (again, on the present record) where the only religious note was struck by the insertion of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, or other incidental references that the courts have upheld. See, e.g., Sherman v. Wheeling School District, 980 F.2d 437 (7th Cir.1992). Because that is true, the program runs afoul of the prohibition against the state's favoring religion in general over non-religion.

DeStefano v. Emergency Housing Group, Inc., 247 F. 3d 397 - Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 2001:

So we must be content to observe the rough boundary that the cases have established between that which is and that which is not "religion" for these purposes. A.A., our cases teach, is on the religion side of the line. That must, for us, be the end of the matter.

Warner v. Orange County Dept. of Probation, 115 F. 3d 1068 - Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 1996:

The A.A. program to which Warner was exposed had a substantial religious component. Participants were told to pray to God for help in overcoming their affliction. Meetings opened and closed with group prayer. The trial judge reasonably found that it "placed a heavy emphasis on spirituality and prayer, in both conception and in practice." We have no doubt that the meetings Warner attended were intensely religious events.

Inouye v. Kemna, 504 F. 3d 705 - Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2007:

Our record on the content of the AA/NA program here is limited to Inouye's allegations that AA/NA is based in "a higher power." Nanamori does not, however, dispute that the program was substantially based in religion, and presents no evidence that the program differed from the usual AA/NA program, described by the Second Circuit in Warner as comprising "intensely religious events," 115 F.3d at 1075, and by the Seventh Circuit in Kerr as "fundamentally based on a religious concept of a Higher Power." 95 F.3d at 480. As such, on this summary judgment record and given the lack of dispute between the parties in question, 714*714 we have no trouble deciding that the third prong of Kerr's Establishment Clause test has been met as well.