Gay Marriage May Depend on Little Isabella

Isabella Miller, an eight year old girl, is a big deal in the Virginia Supreme Court. Why? Because her mother, ex-lesbian, Lisa Miller - now a born-again Christian who left the homosexual lifestyle six years ago - is fighting for custody against a person who is not Isabella's father. In fact, this person is virtually unknown by little Isabella, is not an adoptive parent, nor is she biologically related to Isabella in any way. She is lesbian Janet Jenkins, a woman with whom Lisa had at one time been homosexually involved.

By Lisa's own account, emotional problems brought on by a series of events - including abandonment by her father, abuse by her mentally ill mother and a decade long struggle with alcoholism now overcome - 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.

In 2000, soon after Vermont became the first state to legalize homosexual "civil unions," Miller and Jenkins made a weekend trek from Virginia to Vermont to enter into such a "union." They then headed back to Virginia where they lived together.

In 2001, Lisa was artificially inseminated after the two decided to raise a child in a, deliberately fatherless home environment. Isabella now had two "mommies".

In August of 2002, Miller and little Isabella, then 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. "It was a troubled relationship from the beginning," Lisa told World Magazine in a 2007 interview. "The relationship did not improve, as Jenkins - working as a nightshift security guard - grew increasingly bitter and controlling," reported World.

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 "civil union" back in Vermont.