Just watching Sam Donaldson talking about Lillian Carter.

[Baitball Blogger]

He said something very important. Lillian, at her age, taught her children that people of color were the same as they were. Just as good.

So I got to thinking, how does someone from her generation come from the deep South and manage to understand the truths that we're fighting for to this day?

And then I thought, you know the Daughters of the Confederacy? A group that is determined to hold onto their legacy and nefarious place in the world? Why don't we have a mirror version of that group? One that will attract Liberal women who are intent on holding onto principles that are always in need when we're trying to push agendas that will improve people's lives? And why not base it around someone like Lillian Carter?

[JT45242]

1. How -- she actually read the book and lived it

Unlike so many who use religion as a weapon or tool. Lilian and Jimmy actually read the book and lived what Jesus taught. Radical selfless love for all -- regardless of nationality, race, social status.

She and her husband lived out Matthew 25 -- and Jesus' earnest call to feed the hungry, house the homeless, look after the weak and those in prison.

She is a shining example of what true Christianity is. But she did not toot her own horn. She did the work without wanting fanfare or money.

She is the exact opposite of the Joel Olstein, Franklin Graham, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Fay Baker -- a true Christian who live a selfless life of loving your neighbor as yourself. She had no hand in the collection plate.

Unlike Mike Pence who claims to be a Christian but apparently has such strong rapist tendencies that he cannot allow himself alone in a room with a woman -- her husband advocated for and worked with women.

The Carter family are a true blessing to this country. Not a single Republican figure of the last 50 years is fit to even hold their water bottles while they work on a habitat for humanity home or some literacy project.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I wish Jimmy would start a Liberal woman's organization in Lillian's name.

I would so join it, if there aren't limitations on place of birth.

[True Blue American]

2. I caught the tail end.

Took me a minute to think who Miss Lillian was.

[Aristus]

3. My mother was raised by two very racist, ultra-conservative Southern Baptists in Montgomery, Alabama

How she turned out as liberal as she did is a wonder all its own. When she turned eighteen, she left my grandparents' church, and joined the much more liberal Methodist Church.

And went on to have three very liberal children.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. These are the real unsung heros.

People who have managed to slip out from under the thumb of these religious cults.

[csziggy]

6. Same here - my mother was brought up in a very evangelical Southern Baptist family

With a preacher brother who was the first hard core racist I ever met. She grew up in Marion, Alabama, in the middle of the Black Belt of Alabama - named for the rich soil, not for the people who were forced to grow cotton on that soil. (Marion is famous for being the place Coretta Scott King came from - she was born in Heiberger but went to high school in Marion.)

Mom left home after high school to attend a nursing school in Montgomery, then join the US Navy Nurse Corps in early 1941. She served through the end of the war with her last posting in Hawaii where she met my father. She then joined the Presbyterian Church - much to the dismay of her brother who often told her she was headed to hell.

Mom was never liberal but she did teach her daughters to respect all other people. With her work in the local historical association, she assisted the research of a black historian that helped him write the history of black people in that county. She also advised the founding of a museum dedicated to black people in the first house built by a black man in my hometown.

Three out of four of her daughters were very liberal. The other one was totally into the Daughters of the American Revolution and was very conservative - back when that meant supporting Nixon and Reagan.

[halfulglas]

7. Miss Lillian also joined the Peace Corps and went abroad serving humanity and our country

At a time when most people are looking at retirement after raising an amazing family. She was a blessing in the true sense of the word.