Children In The 'Gay Marriage' Crosshairs
By J. Matt Barber
June 30, 2008
You've probably heard the relativist line that goes something like this: "Gay marriage won't hurt anyone. Live and let live, already!"
Well, don't buy it for a minute.
With its recent 4-3 opinion -- which arrogantly presumed to redefine the millennia-old definition of legitimate marriage -- the California Supreme Court daftly divined that the framers of the California Constitution intended -- all along, I guess -- that Patrick Henry really had a constitutional right to "marry" Henry Patrick. In so doing, four black-robed Dr. Frankensteins have loosed that paradoxical abomination tagged "same-sex marriage" on the countryside.
Abomination, you say? Isn't that a bit strong?
Nope. God used it. And I'll give just one example of many as to why He did. Keep in mind, though: If California voters fail to pass a constitutional amendment in November to undo this extremist act of judicial social engineering, we can expect thousands more examples just like it.
Virginia resident Lisa Miller, mother of 6-year-old Isabella Miller, was involved in homosexuality for a short time. Thankfully, she found freedom from the destructive "gay" lifestyle -- as so many others have done -- through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and, along with Isabella, is now a Christian.
For the past five years or so, Lisa and Isabella have been trying to live their lives in peace at home in Virginia. But unfortunately, they've been unable to do so, as Lisa's dark past has come back to haunt them. They've been the target of a vicious legal attack by militant homosexual activists that places Vermont's civil union laws ("gay marriage" by another name) directly at odds with the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, Virginia's Marriage Affirmation Act and the Virginia Constitution.
Outrageously, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled in March that Lisa must share custody of her own daughter with Janet Jenkins, a woman who was, for a brief time, Lisa's lesbian "civil partner." Jenkins is entirely unrelated to Isabella and, for the most part, is a total stranger to the little girl. Although Jenkins is neither a biological parent nor an adoptive parent, Vermont's highest court determined that -- because of a brief "civil union" from a weekend jaunt to Vermont back in 2000 -- Jenkins, who hadn't seen Isabella since she was little over a year old, must be granted "parental" rights and visitation.
Little Isabella -- who is both terrified by this stranger and understandably confused by her bizarre lifestyle -- has suffered tremendous emotional trauma as a result. There are even concerns about her physical safety.
But it gets much worse. Because Christianity is biblically incompatible with unrepentant homosexuality, and since Lisa teaches Isabella God's express design for human sexuality (one man, one woman within the bonds of marriage), Jenkins has claimed in the past that Lisa is an unfit parent. Precisely because Lisa is a Christian, Jenkins has essentially argued that she's not fit to raise her very own daughter.
But it gets worse yet. On June 18, in an act that can only be described as pure evil, Jenkins' attorneys filed a "Motion for Transfer of Both Sole Legal and Physical [Custody]" of Isabella to Janet Jenkins. Yes, you read that right. This unrelated, near perfect stranger and her single-minded homosexual activist attorneys are trying to permanently rip this horrified child from her mother's loving embrace as a sacrifice to the gods of postmodern homo-fascism. Unfortunately, with the history of this Vermont court, the motion may well be granted.
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