{"id":2488,"date":"2007-08-04T08:58:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T13:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/04\/youre-not-my-mommy\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T13:58:35","slug":"youre-not-my-mommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/youre-not-my-mommy\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re Not My Mommy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Townhall.com<\/a> | Matt Barber | August 2, 2007<\/p>\n

Jesus said, \u201cBut from the beginning of the creation, God \u2018made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh\u2019; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.\u201d (Mark 10: 6-8, NKJV) <\/p>\n

Virginia resident Lisa Miller \u2013 now a born-again Christian \u2013 and her beautiful five-year-old daughter Isabella find themselves immersed in a nightmarish custody battle. But this battle is unlike most others. The person trying to take Isabella away from her mother is entirely unrelated to the little girl and is essentially a total stranger. She\u2019s lesbian Janet Jenkins, a woman with whom Lisa had at one time been homosexually involved. <\/p>\n

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By her own account, emotional problems brought on by a series of events \u2014 including abandonment by her father, abuse by her mentally ill mother and a decade long struggle with alcoholism now overcome \u2014 eventually led Lisa Miller into the lesbian lifestyle. In 1999, Lisa began a homosexual relationship with Jenkins after coming out of a legitimate marriage that ended in divorce. <\/p>\n

In 2000, soon after Vermont became the first state to legalize homosexual \u201ccivil unions,\u201d Miller and Jenkins made a weekend trek from Virginia to Vermont to enter into such a \u201cunion.\u201d They then headed back to Virginia where they lived together. <\/p>\n

In 2001, Lisa was artificially inseminated after the two decided to raise a child in an unnatural, deliberately fatherless home environment as self-deluded \u201cwife\u201d and \u201cwife\u201d \u2014 mother and \u201cmother.\u201d <\/p>\n

In August of 2002, Miller and little Isabella, now just a few months old, moved to Vermont with Jenkins. However, things were unstable, and according to Lisa Miller, Jenkins was physically and emotionally abusive. \u201cIt was a troubled relationship from the beginning,\u201d Lisa told World Magazine in a recent interview. \u201cThe relationship did not improve, as Jenkins \u2014 working as a nightshift security guard \u2014 grew increasingly bitter and controlling,\u201d reported World. <\/p>\n

About a year later, when Isabella was less than a year and a half old, Lisa ended her lesbian relationship, took her daughter back home to Virginia and filed for dissolution of her homosexual \u201ccivil union\u201d back in Vermont. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s when the nightmare really began. <\/p>\n

Although Jenkins had no parental connection to Isabella (she was neither an adoptive parent, nor biologically related) she filed papers in Vermont in 2003 to try to take Isabella from her mother. Even though the child was conceived, born and living in Virginia, the Vermont court nonetheless held that it had jurisdiction. The legal battle has continued since that time, and incredibly, the court recently ruled that Jenkins possessed parental rights over Lisa\u2019s daughter. It granted Jenkins regular and very liberal visitation. Isabella is now required to make the several hundred mile roundtrip journey from Virginia to Vermont every other week to visit a total stranger (Jenkins) who, according to reports, outrageously forces the confused and traumatized little girl to call her \u201cmomma.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rena M. Lindevaldsen, who is an attorney with Liberty Counsel and is representing Lisa and Isabella Miller, explains, \u201cAfter Lisa ended her relationship with Janet, when Isabella was only 17 months old, Lisa became a born-again Christian. For the past three years, she has attempted to raise her child according to Biblical principles. According to recent filings by Janet, however, Janet believes that Lisa\u2019s religious beliefs render Lisa incapable of properly parenting Isabella. As the fit, biological parent of Isabella, it is Lisa, not Janet, who has the fundamental right to decide how to raise her child and with whom she visits. Shockingly, when the Vermont courts declared Janet, a woman who is still actively involved in the homosexual lifestyle, to be Isabella\u2019s parent and set a liberal schedule for visitation between Janet and five-year-old Isabella, the court did not even address Lisa\u2019s fundamental parental rights.\u201d <\/p>\n

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