Because they don’t know where she is.
Huh?
How bizarre.
Kyle at Right Wing Watch adds:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that sort of ruling doesn’t seem to provide much incentive for people to abide by court orders now does it? In fact, it sort of seems to do exactly the opposite.
Why does the judge need her specific location in order to hold her in contempt? You know where she isn’t? His courtroom, where she’s supposed to have appeared.
Another travesty of justice. Radical anti-gay activists should be jailed for disobeying our laws, not coddled. One wonders how radical anti-gay activists would be reacting if this were a case of a gay mother kidnapping a child. Would they be still screaming for the special right to disobey laws based on “conscience?”
It’s a disappointing and baffling outcome.
It just doesn’t make any sense to not hold someone in contempt for not being there when the problems lie with the person NOT BEING THERE!
But I don’t think all is lost – Miller still has until the 23rd February to return with Isabella; I’m sure that she and the many people aiding and abetting her disobedience know what will follow if she doesn’t appear.
Jail them all, I say! Anyone who was aiding and abetting her should be jailed and made an example of. Christian extremists should be taught that they are NOT above the law no matter what the circumstances are. They clamor about the GLBT wanting special rights…what do you call this?
Make an example out of ALL of them!
That’s ridiculous. Courts have TRIED PEOPLE IN ABSENTIA.