Ask For Help into his fly
Getting on your knees in the A.M. to Ask For Help does not mean getting on your knees in the A.M. while this sick yutz stands in front of you and unzips his fly and you Ask For Help into his fly. [...] This is the sort of thing why same-sex sponsors only are a suggestion. Is that there’s some sick bastards around the rooms, you get me? Any AA tells a new female in the Program to use his Unit for her Higher Power, I’d give that guy a wide detour.
Context
The Program's predators named from inside it: a sponsor twisting the morning-prayer discipline (get on your knees, Ask For Help) into coerced sex, weaponizing the newcomer's literal, trusting adherence to the Steps. Gately, protecting a resident, articulates the safeguard the rooms build against their own — same-sex sponsors as a suggestion because there are sick bastards around the rooms — and the gut-punch is the reveal that the predator is Lenz, the man the House has been half-covering for all night. The recovery institution contains its own disease and knows it.