Truly A Parable for Our Times

Hannah Gastonguay, holding her baby Rahab, is followed by her husband Sean and the couple's 3-year-old daughter Ardith, as they disembark in the port city of San Antonio, Chile, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013.
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The Gastonguays, a hyper-religious northern Arizona family takes to sea to escape the United States and its “abortion, homosexuality, [and] state-controlled church.” It doesn’t go well and they have to be rescued in the Pacific.

Now the State Department is helping them get back to Arizona where Hanah Gastonguay says they will “come up with a new plan.”

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