In custody battle between two mommies, little girl is lost

[cali]

Friday, January 8, 2010

Really, we shouldn't be writing about Isabella.

She is in the middle of a custody dispute, just like thousands of children torn between adults who don't want to be with each other anymore.

But the 7-year-old has made national headlines because the sparring adults are two women.

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After taking the cash and sending homemade cookies and cards to Isabella's other mommy for some time, Miller apparently conked herself on the head and decided that her whole lesbian life had been a big mistake. She began going to a conservative, evangelical church and had declared herself a born-again Christian.

She simply wanted to erase it all, make the past go away. She decided Jenkins was not the other mommy, homosexuality is wrong and the lovely old folks they'd been visiting and calling "mom-mom" and "pop-pop" (Jenkins's parents) couldn't contact the little girl they treated as their granddaughter.


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Miller told Newsweek two years ago that letting Isabella live with Jenkins would be like giving her child to the milkman.

Well, yeah -- if you lived with the milkman, made love to him, bought a house with him, entered a civil union with him at a quaint resort blanketed in snow and bedecked with greenery, sat through fertility treatments that he helped pay for, let him catch the baby as you pushed and shared midnight burping and diaper duties -- it would be just like giving your child to the milkman.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010703751.html?hpid=news-col-blog

[theoldman]

1. She cannot erase the fact of being a homosexual.

If you are a borderline case, you may flip either way. The bottom line is that you will still have that gleam in your eye for the same sex.