It's not to bash her, it really isn't, the reason I bring it up is to say, look, she has some language of social justice, and she also, at the same time, has some very conservative sounding language, both of these exist in Rosaria Butterfield, and in this, and they're exemplified in this book, now, does that mean, if a leftist looked at her, could they say, well, she's an agent for the patriarchy, or if a conservative looked at her, could they say, well, she's an agent for the left, because, well, both of them could, I guess, make the same argument, if they wanted to, you know, pick certain things about her to highlight, what I would suggest, and this is just based on my little slice of the pie, and looking at this book, all right, I haven't read everything she's written, so there's, there may be more to it, but in just looking at this, what I would suggest is, there is a sort of a group of writers, who are writing pop Christian books, that have come at this as converts to Christianity, or from outside of Christianity, in some way, and she's part of this group, and it reminds me of, you know, the whole neoconservative versus paleoconservative debate, which some of you might not be familiar with, I'll explain it briefly, but you have these neoconservatives, that came over, that they love this country, some of them like FDR kind of like voters, and they came over into the Republican Party, because the Democrats just started going socialistic, and they were like, we don't want to go that far, no, but they brought some of their ideas with them, and one of them was like the propositional nation, that like, you could go to Iraq, and set up the United States of America there, because it's just a bunch of abstract principles, and you can have democracy, and paleoconservatives say, that's ridiculous, because we have a, you know, kind of a British, English heritage, that came to us through common law, we have a religion, you can't just put the American system anywhere, and make it work, so that's one of the things, that now is enshrined in supposed conservatism, but it actually came from like a neoconservative understanding, because these neoconservatives brought with them, some of the ideas they had, when they were FDR liberals, and I think that's probably the best explanation, for what's happening here, is you have a group of writers, and she's one of them, Rosaria Butterfield, but there are others, who do the same thing, I think of another author, that would fit this bill, would be the BD Annabelle, or Jackie Hill Perry, you know, they weren't Christians, but they became Christians, and then they became writers, in the Christian community, and they kind of bring their ideas with them, their assumptions, that came from those previous communities, I think we're dealing with that a lot right now, and this idea, that we should kind of platform people, that are converts, that came from outside, because they have some knowledge, I guess, they have some insight, that is valuable to us, and so anyway, so that's how I understand her, at least based on this book, is you know, there's some good things she's realized, that she's brought some baggage with her, and here's some of the baggage, on the lesbian community, this is what she says, when I was in a lesbian community, this is how we thought of our homes, I learned a lot in that community, about how to shore up a distinctive culture within, and to live as a despised, but hospitable and compassionate outsider, in a transparent and visible way, she says that she learned, that our houses are hospitals and incubators, something that she learned in my lesbian community, in New York in the 90s, she says out of desperation and fear, and banding together, in spite of our differences, a community was born, she's talking about her days as a lesbian, and she wonders, you know, what if the church had gotten involved in the AIDS epidemic, and what if they had been open, and practicing hospitality, like and here's the big thing, here's the big thing she says, she says, these lessons learned as far outside the walls of the church as possible, are instructive key words for Christians, so I've thought about this a little bit, because it strikes me as strange, when I first hear it, like the idea that Christians have something to learn from the lesbian community, first of all, that term community is kind of strange, because would we say that there's a racist community, or you know, a community of robbers, I mean I guess there's a brotherhood among thieves, there's things like that, where what keeps them together is the crime, or the sin, or the lifestyle that is deviant, that they are involved in, but that's the glue that keeps them together, they're violating God's law in some way, and to call that a community is a little weird to me, like God created community, it comes down to a man, and a woman, and a family, and I mean that's the way it's traditionally been used, but I recognize today, sometimes you could talk about like different hobbies, like the hunting community, or whatever, and maybe she's using it that way, I'll try to give her the benefit of the doubt there, it is strange though, I just want to point that out, but the idea that we could learn from these communities, I mean think of it this way, what if you were a pornographer, you filmed pornography, and you become a Christian, and you come to the church, and they want to make Christian movies, let's say at the church you're at, and you get involved with that, would you then write a book, or try to show them what making a film is according to the principles you learned while a pornographer, I guess there's some technical things there that you could say, yeah I know how to point and shoot a camera, but like you know this is something that God cares about, we're not talking about a technical skill, we're talking about something that's like fundamental to the requirements to be a church leader, hospitality is important, did you learn hospitality in a deviant community, the argument she seems to bring is that it was during the AIDS epidemic that they were helping each other, so if you provide emotional and financial aid, that means it's a community I guess, under those terms, and if that's true, then Christians I would think, you know she says where were they during that crisis, but I mean I happen to know that Christians give more than any other segment of American culture as far as charity is concerned, I mean think about this for a minute, this is kind of crazy to me, and this is I think two years ago that I remember looking at this stat, but Mississippi is like the most charitable state in the whole country, Mississippi, which is also I think the poorest state, and why would that be?