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"Roberts isn't ... trying to speak publicly as a Hindu"

I'm not sure this sounds like a reasonable standard to join any religion. "If you're a convert, shut up". Sounds like second class status. This stuff is too complicated for me.

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I'm not saying it should be a standard, and in fact I would argue that it's a completely unreasonable standard. I mentioned, positively, converts to Eastern Orthodoxy who join the clergy. (One of the best known modern writers about Eastern Orthodoxy is Kallistos Ware, a metropolitan bishop, who converted from Anglicanism at age 24. Nobody would call him second-class!)

I'm just saying that it happens to be true for Roberts, and that this differentiates her case from Dolezal's.

In plenty of cases, the outsider or convert better understands the religion than the native believer. I saw a documentary about Mount Athos, and all the young Greek monks were admitting that being a monk was just a way to get out of the everyday grind. I'm sure the non-Greeks had greater sense of purpose because they had to go further (not just geographically, but spiritually)

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