[Dialogue] Who are you in the current counter-revolution?

[steve har]

We learned this week that U.S. Catholics support President Barack
Obama’s Feb. 10 compromise on contraception in almost identical
numbers to the population as a whole. Many of those sticking with the
Catholic bishops in opposition are evangelical Protestants.

During the 1928 presidential campaign, nutty right-wing Protestants
claimed that Al Smith, the first Catholic nominated for president by a
major party, was planning to extend New York’s Holland Tunnel all the
way to the Vatican.

 Today’s tunnel would run from the Vatican to a suburban Pentecostal
megachurch. Historians are rubbing their eyes in wonder that the
spiritual and political descendants of Protestants who founded the
Know Nothing Party in the 1850s on anti-Papist ideas — who hassled not
just Al Smith but also John F. Kennedy for supposed ties to Rome — are
now embracing Catholics. Rick Santorum was recently greeted at Oral
Roberts University by an enthusiastic crowd of 4,000.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2012/02/republicans_are_unprotected_on035487.php

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If you look at those models that Jim Wiegel drew up at the San Antonio
meeting last year
http://2012gatheringminds.pbworks.com/w/page/38908833/San%20Antonio%2050th%20Celebration%20Workshop
...the interesting question remains: where to stand in this
revolution? What's moral?
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 In a counter-reformation cultural revolution like the one we seem to
be traveling in,  just who is the establishment, the dis-establishment
and the trans-establishment? What would Bonehoeffer and HR Neibuhr say
again? Who are the social pioneers?

Wondering how Mathews would teach CS1 when there is reactionary energy
for non-scientific, non-secular, and not-city values.

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Seems like finding a place to stand like a social pioneer these days
needs both the humor of  Bill Maher and the hard-hat energy of Saul
Alinsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5HxUeoQa8s