dimanche 11 août 2013

Religious family abandons U.S., gets lost at sea

Religious family abandons U.S., gets lost at sea




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A northern Arizona family that was lost at sea for weeks in an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion will fly back home Sunday.



Hannah Gastonguay, 26, said Saturday that she and her husband "decided to take a leap of faith and see where God led us" when they took their two small children and her father-in-law and set sail from San Diego for the tiny island nation of Kiribati in May.



But just weeks into their journey, the Gastonguays hit a series of storms that damaged their small boat, leaving them adrift for weeks, unable to make progress. They were eventually picked up by a Venezuelan fishing vessel, transferred to a Japanese cargo ship and taken to Chile where they are resting in a hotel in the port city of San Antonio.



Their flights home were arranged by U.S. Embassy officials, Gastonguay said. The U.S. State Department was not immediately available for comment.



Awfully decent of the government you hate to help you out, I must say. If they wanted to leave so badly, why come back at taxpayer expense? If Chile doesn't want them, then let them get another boat and sail off again. If they hate the U.S. so much, why aren't they resisting repatriation?




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Hannah Gastonguay said her family was fed up with government control in the U.S. As Christians they don't believe in "abortion, homosexuality, in the state-controlled church," she said.



U.S. "churches aren't their own," Gastonguay said, suggesting that government regulation interfered with religious independence.



Among other differences, she said they had a problem with being "forced to pay these taxes that pay for abortions we don't agree with."



The Gastonguays weren't members of any church, and Hannah Gastonguay said their faith came from reading the Bible and through prayer.



"The Bible is pretty clear," she said.



How far out there do you have to be to believe that all churches in the U.S. are under government control? Maybe this belongs in Conspiracy Theories?




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Hannah Gastonguay said the family will now "go back to Arizona" and "come up with a new plan."



I hope that plan doesn't involve any more taxpayer expense.





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