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Page 12
Kansas City '09
ISN'T COMPULSIVE GAMBLING BASICALLY A FINANCIAL PROBLEM? Last sentence.
Remove the word 'BANKRUPTCY'.
Current Version: Bankruptcy, borrowing and/or lending of money (bailouts)in Gambler's
Anonymous is detrimental to our recovery and should not take place.
Proposed Version: Borrowing and/or lending of money (bailouts) in Gambler's Anonymous is
detrimental to our recovery and should not take place.
Motion to accept above.
Failed
Houston '08
Change the word 'illness' to disease on Pages, 3,8, and 12 as follows:
Page 3. 2nd Paragraph, 4th sentence: 'We are convinced that gamblers of our type are in the grip
of
a progressive illness.'
Page 8. What is Compulsive Gambling? 1st Paragraph, 1st. line; 'Compulsive gambling is an
illness,
progressive in its nature which can never be cured, but can be arrested.'
Page 8. 3rd Paragraph: 'The compulsive gambler needs to be willing to accept the fact that he or
she is in the grip of a progressive disease and has a desire to get well.'
Page 8. 3rd Paragraph of the last sentence: 'However, it will never work for the person who will
not
face squarely the facts about this illness.'
Page 12. 1st Paragraph, 2nd Sentence: 'A person in the grip of this illness creates mountains of
apparently insolvable problems.'
Motion to accept above.
Approved 5 - Against 76
Failed
Chicago '07
3rd line
Change the word 'insolvable' to 'unsolvable'.
Motion to accept above.
Approved 2 - Against 83
Failed
Farmington '05
Paragraph 1
Insert the word spiritual into the 1st sentence.
Current version: No, compulsive gambling is an emotional problem.
New version: No, compulsive gambling is an emotional and spiritual problem.
Motion to accept above.
Failed
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