Only One Mommy

Please send this prayer letter to all who you feel will pray and fight for the Sanctity of Marriage between one man and one woman.  Please send this to all you feel will pray for God to be glorified through my legal case.   

 

Dear Friends,                                                                                              April 25, 2007

 

Thank you for your prayers, phone calls, and emails.  You are an encouragement to me.  I know that each one of you is busy; yet, you seek God and pray to Him for our nation and for what is happening to it.  You are a testimony to me and others around you as you continue to seek Him.   Much has happened since I last wrote you.  The following is an update:

 

Update: 

April 14, 2007 Visitation:       Janet, Elizabeth (the third party), Isabella, and I participated in a 2-hour visitation at the mall.   Isabella was her usual self- sweet, bold, and energetic.    Many of you had been praying for Isabella to be bold.  Your prayers were answered.  Isabella asked Janet if she was a “Christian” and if she “Believed Jesus died on the cross for your sins.”  Janet ignored these questions at first. So, Isabella asked them again.   Praise God for Isabella’s boldness.   The visit went without immediate concern for Isabella. She thought that it was a play date.  Isabella has not asked about Janet or asked to see her again since that visit other than to clarify Janet’s answers or lack thereof about being a Christian. 

 

God has worked mightily through this visit pertaining to Isabella.  Since Isabella asked for clarification about Janet’s lack of response to the question and at one point Janet’s response, I have been able to explain to Isabella about what we as adults call “walking the walk and talking the talk.”    I feel God is leading me to tell Isabella about Janet’s lifestyle in terms of loving the sinner but hating the sin.  God prepared me for that a little bit when I was able to share this concept with the
Vermont court during my two day of testimony.   Please keep Isabella in your prayers as another 2-hour visitation is tentatively scheduled for May 5, 2007.  

 

April 16, 2007:  Isabella turned 5!!!!

 

April 18, 2007:   The Virginia Appellate Court ruled in Janet’s favor.  This ruling stems form the March 21, 2007 oral argument regarding their dismissal of the 2004
Virginia court order, which stated that I am the only biological mother as well as that
Virginia has jurisdiction. 
Virginia ruled today that
Virginia is to accept the out of state
Vermont court as it is- both parentage and custody/visitation!  

 

April 19, 2007:   We filed our second appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. This appeal is asking the court to view and rule on the Virginia Appellate decision/ruling and the Va Supreme Court lack of ruling. 

 

April 20, 2007:   An extension was granted for the deadline of turning in facts and facings to the
Vermont court. 

 

April 24, 2007:  Deadline for turning facts and findings in to the
Vermont court.  We are now waiting on a decision from Judge Cohen regarding custody and visitation.  Janet continues to ask for full custody – going as far as say in writing that Isabella recognized her during the April 14 visitation.   Isabella has not seen Janet for 2.5 years and Isabella did not recognize Janet because on the way home from the visit I asked Isabella how she was feeling and what she thought of the visit.  Isabella replied that she did not know who Janet was.  I reminded her of the photo that I showed her- the one from the Washington Post with all of us together- and Isabella replied that Janet did not look like that. 

 

April 27, 2007:   The U.S Supreme court will conference on our first appeal that we are asking for that court to take.  This appeal is on the
Vermont court order.  Last Thursday we filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme court based on the April 18, 2007 ruling (see above for ruling outcome).  

 

Prayer Requests:

 

ü      Please pray for Isabella.   After the visit, even though she did not talk about the visit she experienced fall out.  Isabella was very clingy, did not want me to leave the classroom at school, I couldn’t go to another room in our home without her wanting to be with me, was rebellious and wouldn’t go to sleep without me being there with her.  Essentially, she regressed for about a week after the April 14 visit.   In anger, she brought up that I left her to go to
Vermont and asked me if we had to move.   She has still not brought up the April 14, 2007 visit.  

 

Please pray that she is protected spiritually (she was very confused about “walking the walk and talking the talk.”  She thinks that if you say you believe that “Jesus died on the cross for our sins” then you are Christian- regardless of how you live, what you say and what you do- as in the case of Janet).   Please continue to pray that she is protected from Janet- that Janet does not get full custody or visitation.

 

ü      Please pray for Judge Cohen in
Vermont.   Pray for God’s conviction.  Pray that Judge Cohen sees Janet for her lies and deceit.  Please pray for a favorable outcome and complete victory for Isabella and for children everywhere that will be affected by the outcome of my court case.  It would be horrible for women who identify themselves as lesbians to stay in a relationship that they want to leave for Christ because they are afraid of losing their children!  

 

ü      Please pray for the U.S. Supreme Court to take this case.  Please pray that the U.S. Supreme court gives us complete victory- that they will rule that
Virginia is right according to our state laws of marriage protection and artificial insemination.    Please pray that our state laws prevail.   If you are reading this and are from out of state-, please pray that
Virginia state law prevails because if it does not then our ruling will affect your state regardless of the fact that you may have strong marriage affirmation laws. 
Virginia has the strongest laws and look what the court has ruled thus far. 
Virginia has recognized the civil union as well as an out of state custody order that arose out of the civil union dissolution process!  Outrage!

 

ü      Please pray for the lawyers in my case.  They must be tired. Please pray that they continue to be provided rest, wisdom, and health. 

 

ü      Please pray for Janet and her salvation.  Please pray for Janet’s partner whom she will be civil unioned shortly.  Her name is Kate. Please pray for her salvation.   Janet has not changed.  It was evident of her lies on the court stand and of the short time, I spent with her April 14, 2007 that Janet is lost spiritually.   I also do not see a change in Janet in other areas.  To me this is scary because Janet was abusive to me when I was in a relationship to her. Please pray for a revival in her soul, for her to turn to God.  

 

ü      Please pray that God will use me to spread His gospel as a direct result of this case.  If I must give visitation then I will do so joyfully because I know that I can be a witness for Him.  I praise Him for protecting me from having to give visitation for the last 2.5 years.  God is allowing visitation to occur now.  Please pray that I glorify God in these visitations.  

 

 

What can you do?:  

 Many of you have asked what you can  do to help.   We as Christians need to get my legal story out in public.  We need to let the people of
Virginia know what is happening in their state. We need to let the people of other states with marriage affirmation laws know what is happening in
Virginia and how it affect their state laws.   If
Virginia continues to rule and if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in
Vermont’s favor then we have opened our doors wide (they are already opened now because of the latest
Virginia ruling) to homosexual unions!   

 

We as Christians need to flood the media, our state representatives, and church leaders with information about what is happening.  I am asking you to pray about the following and if God leads you to  please choose at least two activities to do within the following week:

 

1. Write a letter to the editor explaining what is going on and your feelings about it.  I believe most letters must be fewer than 300 words.  Send your letter to all the area papers both here and surrounding our valley.   
2. Email, call, and fax  Congressman Wolf about what is happening.   http://www.wolf.house.gov/contact.html
3. Email, call and fax Bob Marshall, the representative who was most helpful in getting  the marriage affirmation laws passed:  delegatebobmarshall@trincomm.org
4. Email, call, and fax your local representatives.  You can find who your local representative is at the following website.  www.oag.state.va.us
5. Email, call and fax our Attorney General at www.oag.state.va.us
6. Send a letter or one of the prayer letters I have sent you in the past- which details the case- (if you need another letter please let me know and I will forward it to you) to PRO-FAMILY groups such as Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Family Federation, Home school Legal Defense Fund (they wrote a brief for my case at one time) and others.  Focus on the Family has a media contact also on their website.   If you go to this link, they have many pro family groups listed.  Otherwise, just Google pro family on the web.  Remember, it does not matter if they are not based out of
   Virginia. Pro family groups must be alerted because their efforts in both
   Virginia and other states to keep and uphold the Sanctity of Marriage are in jeopardy!  
7. Email, fax, and call the media.  We have Fox 5 news (www.foxnews.com), Brit Humes, Bill O’Reilly (www.billoreilly and 1-877-9-No-SPIN for his radio program call in from 12-2 daily), NPR,  Hannity and Colmes (www.foxnews.com/hannityandcolmes) and other programs.  Try calling one of the programs you listen to on a regular basis. 

 

What are you asking for?  You are asking them to inform the public about what is happening in our Virginia Court systems. You are informing them that the hard work that they have done in trying to protect the Sanctity of Marriage is not safe.  You are sharing with Christians everywhere our responsibility to upholding God’s laws.    

Thank you for prayerfully considering getting involved with spreading the word of Christ. God wants to use my legal case to draw others closer to Him.  God wants to use my legal case to tell others about Christ.  God wants to use my legal case as a warning of what will happen if Christians do not unite as the homosexuals groups have.  We as Christians seem to be losing the fight for us to glorify God .  I may lose my biological daughter to Janet, a practicing lesbian, because I have glorified God through obeying His commandment to bring up my child for the Lord.  We need to allow God to work through us so that He can continue to fight the fight.   

 

Please feel free to email me and ask questions.  I will be most happy to talk with you. 

 

Thank you for your continued prayers. 

 

Joyfully Serving Christ,

 

 

Lisa Miller

James 1:2-8