Virginia Gives Lisa Miller Gets Another Month To Hide

[FreeState]

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/01/lisa-miller-gets-another-month-to-hide.html

A family court judge in Virginia has given Lisa Miller another 30 days to appear with her 7 year-old daughter or face arrest. Presumably aided by the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund, Miller went into hiding last month after a Vermont judge awarded custody of her daughter to Miller's lesbian ex-partner, Janet Jenkins. After "renouncing" her homosexuality and finding Jeebus, Miller had fled to Virginia upon the advice of Christianist lawyers who told her that state was the least likely to honor custody judgments from Vermont. The lawyers, obviously, were correct.

[Bitwit1234]

1. You got that right. After Falwell

they think Jesus lives right there on his campus. And that he is their own private go to person.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Not surprising at all

The lawyers knew exactly what they were talking about when they told Miller to flee to Virginia, the most gay-hating state in the country.

[Meldread]

3. As a Virginian

I can confirm your statement to be true. :(

Virginia is for haters.

[TheWraith]

7. Come on, the most?

Alabama? Wyoming? Idaho? I'm sure VA is bad, but it can't possibly be the worst.

[Meldread]

8. You have no idea.

You're forgetting that both Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell were based out of Virginia. While it's true that Northern Virginia is more accepting than Southern Virginia, that is primarily because most of Northern Virginia is heavily influenced by immigration from other states. Our state has one of the strongest, if not the strongest, constitutional amendments against gay marriage. It not only forbids gay marriage, it forbids any benefit that even resembles that of marriage. This means no civil unions, no domestic partnerships, but it also means that things like Power of Attorney can be challenged in court by a family that doesn't approve of their gay child. It could even mean that leaving things in your will to your partner could potentially be challenged in court by the family.

In short, Virginia has gone out of it's way to hang a sign on the door: "Faggots not welcome."

It is no accident that this woman fled to Virginia with the child. No accident at all.

[cali]

4. this is incorrect. It was Judge Cohen in VT Family Court

and before anyone trashes him, please remember that it was Judge Cohen who gave custody to Janet.

Vermont: Ruling in Lesbian Custody Case

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 22, 2010

A judge gave a Virginia woman at the center of a long-running lesbian custody dispute 30 days to appear in court with her 7-year-old daughter or face possible arrest. Judge William Cohen of Vermont Family Court made the ruling in response to a request by Janet Jenkins to hold her former partner, Lisa Miller, in contempt after Ms. Miller failed to turn over the child, Isabella, to Ms. Jenkins on Jan. 1. The couple broke up in 2003, and Ms. Miller, the girl’s biological mother, moved to Virginia, renounced homosexuality and became an evangelical Christian. Her lawyer said she did not know her client’s whereabouts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/us/23brfs-RULINGINLESB_BRF.html

[reynolds1863]

9. Whereabouts???

That attorney knows where she is. They would have to be in contact because she has retain this lawyer.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

5. This Bitch...

should have had a contempt ruling put out when she didn't appear on the original date. She isn't going to show this time, either. These fundies think they're above the law. It's time to show them that they are not.

[beyurslf]

6. Didn't the VA courts actually uphold the VT order and grant custody to the other mom?

I think the lawyers were wrong. She lost.