Mary....I'll take a whack at that ....

Not everyone is called to be a Merton or a Day...though Francis did mention both in his Congressional address as being our american very special folks...

But I think we are challenged to follow our prayerful conscience relative to dissent...and that could  mean meeting up with very painful pushback....everything from IRS audits (punitive) to jail.

I deeply hope it won't come to that....but it has occurred to me from the very beginning that freedom is not easily "rewon"