Good portrayal of a nervous breakdown but...

Sarah was an insufferable, naive pain.

These liberation theology types loved the Viet Cong, Shining Path, Castro and other despots and terrorists who made life miserable for peasants, Catholics, gays... They just used the kind of rhetoric that appealed to naive Westerners who didn't want to look too closely at what they actually did. Those in the refugee movement of the 70s and 80s didn't give a hang about refugees from Nicaragua or Cuba because those were the right kind of regimes.

She could have voiced her disagreement with the columnist at the party without cursing and blowing up. In contrast, he only lost it at the church because everyone had been hassling him - and everything he said was true. Not the view of screenwriter nor director, of course.