Greetings,

There have regularly been folks in S.A. meetings who have expressed
negative feelings about the 6th step. We usually told them that
they can exercise their right to choose a step other than #6. No
one in the S.A. groups that I was involved with had spirituality
pressed on them. People can remain silent during the Serenity Prayer,
for instance. One fellow that I remember came to the S.A. group for
more than five years, and never chose step #6--and that was fine.
The wording of step #6 in the Blue Booklet was written by someone
who was bordering on agnosticism/atheism. (I don't know if that version
of the wording has been modified in subsequent editions.)

Regards,
--John P.