Virginia sides with lesbian 'mother'

 

The Virginia Supreme Court has decided to honor a Vermont court ruling that allows the lesbian former partner of a Virginia woman to have visitation with the Virginia woman's daughter.

 

 

Virginia residents Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller were in a lesbian relationship, and had entered into a Vermont civil union, when Miller conceived a child through artificial insemination.  Later, the women moved to Vermont.  Then Miller became a Christian, left the homosexual lifestyle, dissolved the civil union, and moved with her daughter back to Virginia.  Jenkins sued for custody and visitation.  Miller got custody of her daughter, but the Vermont court ordered visitation rights for Jenkins.  On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court agreed.
 

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Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, represented Lisa Miller and her daughter. "I'm disappointed that the Virginia Supreme Court side-stepped the legal conflict between the Vermont civil union law and Virginia's marriage laws," the attorney shares. [But] we're certainly not deterred.  This case will still go forward and, in fact, Liberty Counsel will be moving forward with a separate challenge under the state's constitutional amendment in Virginia."
 
Virginia citizens overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment in 2006 barring the state from recognizing same-sex "marriages," civil unions, or any similar legal relationship other than a one-man, one-woman marriage.
 
"We are going to begin this case again from the very beginning," Staver explains, "arguing the effect of this amendment is to bar recognition of any out-of-state, Vermont same-sex civil union.  So even though the case has not been fully addressed yet by the Virginia Supreme Court, we believe that, at some point in the future, it will be addressed.  We're just going to begin again and go back through the appellate process."
 
Liberty Counsel is also appealing the Vermont court's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

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Wow, this reminds me of the quote, "What tangled webs we weave."  When we, as a country, move away from God's laws, things get crazy!  I feel bad for the little girl that is going through this ordeal & is probably being told 2 different things from her real mom & her mom's ex partner.  I'll have to remember to pray for them.