Roy K.’s 12 December 1990 letter to SA groups invited groups to respond to what he felt was SA’s interpretation of the sobriety definition:

“Regarding SA’s definition of sexual sobriety, ‘married’ means traditional, legal, heterosexual marriage, and ‘spouse’ does not include ‘committed relationships’ with either the same or opposite sex.”

Groups were invited to express whether they affirmed, did not affirm, or chose not to respond to this statement.

Mechanics of the Survey

To provide a system of checks, survey responses were to be returned on the SA letterhead provided. Individual groups were identified by name, city, meeting day and time, contact person, and address. Responses were dated, and comments were solicited. The matter of how the survey at group level would be conducted was left up to each group. The target date of 4 January was chosen so the trend could be reported to the Oklahoma City convention. Due to time constraints, about as many responses came in after that date as before. Cutoff date (Essay preparation cutoff) was 22 February.

Results of Group Sobriety Survey:

Number of groups responding: 170
Number of groups affirming the 12 December statement: 128 (75.3%)
Number of groups not affirming the statement: 32 (18.8%)
Number of groups marking “chooses not to respond”: 10 (5.9%)
Ambiguous responses (not counted): 8

[Comments from groups and members accompanying the survey responses are included in a separate supplement. Roy K.’s report, “On the Sobriety Survey and Why It Was Not an IGC” appears in the Box 300 supplement, also in this mailing.]