A prominent Christian direct-mail guru — who for years helped conservative groups market themselves to subscribers of a blatantly anti-Semitic publication — has been implicated for harboring a woman who ran away with her biological daughter after losing custody to a former lesbian partner.
According to an FBI affidavit, Lisa Miller and her daughter — missing since 2009 — have been living at a beach house in Nicaragua owned by Philip Zodhiates, who runs the marketing company Response Unlimited in Waynesboro, Va.
Miller’s custody battle with her former partner, Janet Jenkins, has received widespread publicity because of the questions it raised about the rights of non-biological parents in same-sex unions. Miller, who renounced homosexuality and became an evangelical Baptist, lost custody of her daughter after failing to grant Jenkins her court-required visits, citing her objections to Jenkins’ “homosexual lifestyle.” The two had been joined in a civil union in Vermont in 2000. Miller was artificially inseminated and gave birth to her daughter, Isabella, in 2002.
In 2006, the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed that Zodhiates’ company was charging $100 for the rental of every 1,000 names of subscribers to The Spotlight newspaper. Founded by Willis Carto, The Spotlight carried anti-Semitic and wildly conspiracist articles interspersed with ads for Klan, neo-Nazi and related hate groups. According to Response Unlimited’s website at the time, purchasers of the subscriber list included the Republican Governors Association, the National Right to Work Foundation, U.S. English and the Washington Times. (He has also given lists of subscribers to Christian Identity groups as well)
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/04/25/businessman-at-center-of-lesbian-custody-case-hawked-hate-pub-subscriber-lists/
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