Daily Archives: December 30, 2011

Jodie Fisher Called AA Sponsor Before Going To Mark Hurds Room

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Okay, let me get this straight. Jodie Fisher, a grown successful woman 20 years sober, feels she needs to call her AA sponsor before going to Mark Hurds Hotel room to review documents. Well it ended up with sex abuse allegations and Mark Hurd getting fired. Why does a sober grown successful woman have to call to run by her AA sponsor about going to a mans hotel room? Did she not have enough brains to make this choice all by herself ? This ongoing dependence on sponsors that has been encouraged more over the years, clearly stunts the emotional growth of a person. Making them feel like they cant think for themselves. It is not like sponsors are given any special training to tell other people how to live their lives.So what gives? Keep the member forever dependent on each other, securing Alcoholics Anonymous tentacles in society and peoples bank account.

‘The first incident described in the letter occurred in October of 2007 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Atlanta, when Hurd and Fisher had dinner together after an HP event. Hurd told Fisher that he was about to fly to China to meet Madame Wu Yi, China’s vice-premier.

“As you were walking back to the Ritz, you invited Ms. Fisher to come up to your room. You said there were some documents that you wanted to show her pertaining to Madame Wu Yi,” the letter read.

It then describes how a distraught Fisher called her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor seeking advice before going to Hurd’s room. Fisher, the letter noted, had been clean and sober 20 years by this time. The sponsor said that Fisher didn’t have to do anything that compromised her integrity.

Thus reassured, she went up to Hurd’s hotel suite, where Hurd asked her to stay the night. Fisher’s reply: “Absolutely not. I barely know you and you are my boss.” An hour later, after more alleged pressure from Hurd, Fisher said she wanted to leave and did, the letter said.’

http://allthingsd.com/20111229/uncomfortable-dance-heres-the-sexual-harassment-letter-that-got-mark-hurd-fired/

State Farm No Longer Insuring Churches In Florida

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Insurance provider State Farm shows concerns over churches in the state of Florida and dropped them. To insure churches they want to see safety guidelines in place in regard to children, if they want to obtain ” abuse and molestation” coverage. I wonder if the insurance companies that insure Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous realize that courts are mandating level 3 sex offenders, and violent felons to 12 step programs? Many of them located in the very basements of the churches they insure. I also wonder if the insurance companies have any idea that felons are sponsoring minors in AA/NA ? AA/NA provide no background checks unless they are going into a prison. So lets see, in prison there is very high security to protect inmates and juveniles. To sponsor a minor on the outside of detention centers AA has no such requirements. Are the insurance companies taking this into account when they are insuring these high risk 12 step groups? It would be nice if they put requirements on AA like they are doing with the churches. This is what changed the churches policies on dealing with sexual predator behavior in their congregations. To get insurance they HAD to start dealing with it to some extent. Of course they are dealing with hundreds of claims annually through protestant churches alone. They would probably would have thousands more without the changes. As we know in AA, many sexual assaults go unreported because of the principles of maintaining anonymity. Of course their lawsuits dealing with AA are swept under the rug.

Matt Carlucci, with the Jacksonville, Florida-based Brightway Insurance Agency, said churches pose a number of special risks, especially those that operate day care centers and schools.

To obtain so-called “abuse and molestation” coverage, churches must show they perform background checks on employees and volunteers. Additionally, insurers may require that the schools and day care centers have in place rules such as not allowing males employees to be alone with a child and maintaining a certain ratio of teachers to students.

“To get coverage, the churches are going to have to prove they have those procedures in place,” said Carlucci.

http://www.mynewmarkets.com/articles/180969/state-farm-to-stop-insuring-churches-in-florida