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Liberty and Others Hit With RICO Lawsuit Over Lesbian Custody Case

Liberty and Others Hit With RICO Lawsuit Over Lesbian Custody Case

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An international lesbian custody battle will continue in civil court.

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The conviction yesterday of Rev. Kenneth Miller -- the Mennonite pastor who helped Lisa Miller flee the country with her child instead of transferring custody to her former partner, Janet Jenkins, as the courts had ordered -- wasn't the only development in the case. According to Right Wing Watch, Jenkins has now filed a hefty civil RICO lawsuit against Miller as well as Liberty University Law School and Thomas Road Baptist Church, all of whom allegedly played a role in helping Lisa Miller kidnap her daughter and abscond to Nicaragua, where she's thought to be living with now-10-year-old Isabella.

Among the more interesting sections of the lawsuit, which you can read here on RWW, are allegations that "Lisa Miller's attorneys Mathew Staver and Rena Lindevaldsen routinely instructed their Law School students that the correct course of action for a person in Lisa Miller's situation would be to engage in 'civil disobedience' and defy court orders" and that several religious leaders essentially did the same, calling for "Christian civil disobedience" around the case.

Read the full lawsuit.

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Diane Anderson-Minshall is the CEO of Pride Media, and editorial director of The Advocate, Out, and Plus magazine. She's the winner of numerous awards from GLAAD, the NLGJA, WPA, and was named to Folio's Top Women in Media list. She and her co-pilot of 30 years, transgender journalist Jacob Anderson-Minshall penned several books including Queerly Beloved: A Love Across Genders.
Diane Anderson-Minshall is the CEO of Pride Media, and editorial director of The Advocate, Out, and Plus magazine. She's the winner of numerous awards from GLAAD, the NLGJA, WPA, and was named to Folio's Top Women in Media list. She and her co-pilot of 30 years, transgender journalist Jacob Anderson-Minshall penned several books including Queerly Beloved: A Love Across Genders.