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I am a little uncomfortable with calling myself an "earthquake
survivor". When I got back from Haiti, I had my little 15
minutes of fame as all the local news channels tried to get an
interview with the "local Orange
County woman who survived the earthquake". It all seemed very
overdramatic to me - but I realize (sadly) that people tend to be more
interested in a story about someone they identify with. I did the
interviews, most of them on my first full day home, because I wanted to
use the attention to talk about humanitarian parole. As I saw the
stories later, I chuckled at the little liberties they took to make it
sound more dramatic, and I rolled my eyes at the descriptor of
"earthquake survivor". It doesn't seem a fitting title for someone who
doesn't even live in Haiti, for someone who came out unscathed, from
someone who took a plane home to a normal life and an intact home.
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I'm begging you, your right to religion
and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the
Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them .
. . are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts
that long it will be the next year. I beg you, look for the words
'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you
find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice,
they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church?
Yes!"
