Posted by
PFOX on Monday, March 23, 2009 2:13:07 PM
Too often, the debate about same-sex marriage, homosexuality, or other gender-identity issues becomes abstract and loses sight of the people it affects--and at the end of the day, it is children who will be most affected. Again and again, we see homosexual persons seeking change who have experienced
emotionally traumatic childhoods. Efforts to redefine marriage and the family
deconstruct the healthy, organic environment that children need to develop.
The
Protect Isabella Coalition is a new group named after a little girl named Isabella, who is at the center of a custody battle between her biological mother, Lisa Miller, and Miller's former lover, a lesbian named Janet Jenkins. Miller left the lesbian lifestyle years ago and separated from Jenkins, but Jenkins continues to seek visitation and custody rights over Isabella. Isabella is reportedly "frightened" of Jenkins, a woman she hardly even knows, and exhibited "disturbing behaviors" after her first several visits to her, prompting Miller to cut off the contact.
So far, activist judges in Vermont and Virginia have ruled to force unsupervised visits for Isabella over the summer. Isabella's mother Lisa and her legal counsel are appealing these decisions, but this will not be the first or the last time we hear of such a case if we do not raise our voices and stand beside Isabella and her mother.
Because ultimately, as the Protect Isabella Coalition notes, "Children are neither tokens to be collected at the whim of selfish adults nor notches in the belts of social activists."