Lisa Miller is the one-half of a Vermont lesbian couple that conceived daughter Isabella with partner Janet Jenkins — and then abducted Isabella and took her to Virginia. There, prejudiced state courts violated Vermont’s family-law jurisdiction over the family and allowed Miller to violate Jenkins’ visitation rights until the court rulings were overturned by Virginia’s Supreme Court in 2007.
Since then, Miller lived more-or-less openly as a fugitive — violating Jenkins’ visitation rights, showcasing her daughter as a Christian Right political trophy, and sharing her story of troubled celibacy and sexual confusion (which she described as an ex-lesbian fundamentalist freedom) to Christian Right media. Then, late last year, because Miller had violated Jenkins’ visitation rights since 2004, a Vermont judge issued a final ruling granting sole custody of Isabella to Jenkins.
By the time of that ruling, however, it appears that Miller had already absconded with Isabella again. Miller abandoned her Virginia home and left her lawyers at the fundamentalist Liberty Counsel supposedly unaware of her wishes and whereabouts, even as they continued to represent Miller in court.
According to the National Center for Exploited and Missing Children, Lisa Miller and Isabella Miller-Jenkins are now officially listed as missing and the case is classified as family abduction.
LezGetReal now believes that Miller is hiding as a “missionary” in Quito, Ecuador, using a church group affiliated with HCJB Global as shelter for the abduction.
We hope that U.S. and Ecuadorian authorities urgently investigate.
Thanks for keeping this going. Mel
This is so sad. Of the cruelest things that are done to gays and lesbians, is attacking them through their children. Taking their children away, and so called Christians, supporting kidnapping from the other parent is appalling, spiteful and mean.
It’s no different then when slaves’s children were taken from them and either sold or taken as punishment. Slaves had no marital status to protect them either.
Really. What’s so different in the reasoning behind someone would do this in the first place?
It’s a way of exacting the very power over a gay person’s life that slavers did.
It’s a way of being at the most cruel specifically to keep another person in a state of anxiety and threat.
It’s a way of using legal opportunity when a person doesn’t have equal rights and status.
It’s permission, by the government and society, to BE this way.
Those are just a few examples of ways in which gay men and women are treated as slaves once were in America.
Stealing children.
How. Loathsome.
Don’t forget there are ex-gay ministries (referred to in this article as ex-gay “torture chambers”) in Ecuador:
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/05/21/2056
I’ve read reports on various sites that Miller allegedly purchased a plane ticket to a country south of the border (can’t remember where) and now that she is believed to be in Ecuador. I’m wondering if these reports are confirmed by authorities (or confirmable through public records somewhere)?
The reason I ask is because it would not surprise me if these were inventions made up to throw off the track. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was still in Virginia. She certainly has a lot of advocates in Virginia, specifically in Lynchburg, Reedville, Virginia Beach, and the Tidewater area.
Does anyone have the sources of these allegations that she is out of the country?
The woman who gave birth to this child is the true mother. This child only has one mother. Tis lesbian woman has no rights whatsoever over the little girl. Homosexuals have a right to be gay if they so chose, but they have no righ to impose their lifestyle choices on others. Lisa Miller did what any loving mother would do when faced with a grave danger to her daughter – she fled to safty. Whereever she is I wish her luch and will be praying for her. A great injustice has been put against her. May God give her th strength she needs even now protect her Lord, Amen.
You can make s**t up all you want, “Matt the Hauler,” but it doesn’t mean your blind view of reality exists.
;-)
Have a nice day, dillweed.
Matt said “Homosexuals have a right to be gay if they so chose, but they have no righ to impose their lifestyle choices on others.”.
No gay has ever done that you idiot. You can’t force someone to be gay if they don’t want to although a-holes like you have tried to force many a gay to be heterosexual.
Janet Jenkins is just as much the mother of this child as Miller is. The only threat to this child’s safety is the criminal who absconded with her and is forcing her to live a life on the run out of touch with any sense of permanence in her life.