Amongst the multiple responses to her announcement was that of retired Syracuse University professor, pastor's wife and former lesbian Rosaria Butterfield in the Gospel Coalition article Love Your Neighbor Enough to Speak Truth - A Response to Jen Hatmaker. Butterfield stated that Jen Hatmaker's well meaning "words would have put a millstone around my neck" and, "how I feel does not tell me who I am. Only God can tell me who I am, because he made me and [cares for] me."