Texas Police Officers Respond to Traffic Violations With Turkeys, Not Tickets

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Police officers in Fort Worth, Texas had a surprise for traffic violators last week.

Instead of writing tickets for minor violations such as driving without wearing a seat belt, the officers gave out frozen turkeys.

The turkeys were donated to the police department, Fox 4 News reported Wednesday. Officers decided to continue the cycle of giving by handing out the Thanksgiving dinner staples a week before the holiday. About 25 turkeys were distributed.

“Police tell us it’s one way of showing people that they serve the community in a lot of different ways,” Fil Alvarado reported for Fox 4 News.

Fort Worth officers weren’t the only ones who made the news recently for spreading holiday cheer.

On Sunday, Milwaukee Police Department’s District 5 partnered with students at Messmer Preparatory Catholic School and MATC’s Culinary Arts Program to serve Thanksgiving dinner to area families. Over 400 people were expected to attend, the Journal Sentinel reported.

These acts of kindness by police officers come toward the end of a particularly difficult year for police-community relations. Multiple violent attacks against officers have taken place since the summer months after a series of controversial shootings of black men by police officers.

Over the weekend, at least four police officers were shot in separate incidents in Texas, Missouri and Florida within 24 hours. One of the officers, Detective Benjamin Marconi of San Antonio, Texas, was killed. The other three officers shot Sunday are expected to survive.

Seeking ways to ease police-community tensions has been a near constant topic of public conversation in the wake of such violence. Perhaps Fort Worth police officers found just the “ticket” to help ease some of that tension. (For more from the author of “Texas Police Officers Respond to Traffic Violations With Turkeys, Not Tickets” please click HERE)

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Liberal Hypocrisy: Apparently Non-Discrimination Only Applies to Conservatives

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A disgruntled liberal who says “discrimination” is wrong says she’ll discriminate against America’s most prominent immigrant because of her choice of husband:

A fashion designer whose styles have been sported by Michelle Obama is boycotting dressing Melania Trump, saying she encourages “my fellow designers to do the same” when it comes to outfitting the next first lady.

“As one who celebrates and strives for diversity, individual freedom and respect for all lifestyles, I will not participate in dressing or associating in any way with the next First Lady,” Sophie Theallet wrote in a letter this week.

“The rhetoric of racism, sexism, and xenophobia unleashed by her husband’s presidential campaign are incompatible with the shared values we live by,” Theallet wrote about President-elect Donald Trump.

“I encourage my fellow designers to do the same,” she continued.

“I am well aware it is not wise to get involved in politics,” the fashion maven wrote. “That said, as a family-owned company, our bottom line is not just about money. We value our artistic freedom and always humbly seek to contribute to a more humane, conscious and ethical way to create in this world.”

For years, conservatives have been accused of bigotry, hatred and more for not celebrating the issue of the day propagated by liberals. Opposing abortion means we hate women, stopping illegal immigration means we think brown-skinned people are sub-human and upholding the rule of law in cities means we want to keep blacks down (even though America’s largest cities have long been run by Democrats).

The two new causes célèbres have been non-discrimination laws that consist of state-sanctioned attacks on the beliefs of Christians who may not want to participate in, or otherwise endorse, the LGBT agenda. A lawsuit in Washington State based around such a law could cause a 72-year old florist to lose everything she owns because of her beliefs about marriage, and priests in Massachusetts could be jailed for using biologically accurate pronouns.

Will liberals defend Melania Trump from this hypocrisy? After all, they stood up for Hillary Clinton when she enabled her husband’s abuse of women. All Melania did was marry Donald Trump. (For more from the author of “Liberal Hypocrisy: Apparently Non-Discrimination Only Applies to Conservatives” please click HERE)

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Texas Committee: High Schoolers Can’t Handle Evidence Against Darwinism

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On Thursday, I testified in Austin, Texas about the latest skirmish over how evolution is taught in Texas public high schools. I want it taught, warts and all. Darwinists want it taught as airbrushed and unquestionable dogma.

The state school board meeting was called to consider initial steps to streamline the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Streamlining is fine, in principle. The problem is that some of the proposed changes to the evolution section water down four passages that call on students to learn about, analyze and evaluate some of the growing evidential challenges to modern evolutionary theory.

So, for instance, what are we to make of the sudden appearance of new species and fundamentally new body plans in the fossil record? Neo-Darwinism says these animal forms evolved very gradually as part of the evolutionary tree of life, but the pattern in the geological column paints a different picture. Shouldn’t biology students be able to exercise their critical thinking skills by wrestling with this conundrum? The majority on the biology committee weren’t keen on that idea. They struck the sudden appearance language from the TEKS and argued that high school students aren’t mature enough to hear about it and ask intelligent questions. Not “developmentally appropriate,” the committee report said.

And, besides, said Karyn Ard, the chair of the biology curriculum review committee, there’s not enough time to cover it during the school year. There’s too much other material they have to cover. Ditto the growing mystery surrounding the origin of the first life.

Since I substitute taught in the Austin Independent School District for a year before I started graduate school, I could sympathize with Ard when she emphasized the wide disparity in student ability and the challenge teachers face to cover all the assigned material adequately. At the same time, the very real effect of the committee’s streamlining is to get rid of just those areas that best expose kids to the growing evidential challenges facing evolution, while leaving behind all kinds of pro-Darwinian propaganda woven into the fabric of the leading high school biology textbooks.

Covering for Darwin

Significantly, the pro-Darwin Texas Freedom Network (TFN) has had it in for these four hot-button passages ever since the passages made their way into the TEKS a few years ago. So it’s no surprise that TFN is celebrating the proposed deletions.

Ard told the board that the biology committee’s motives were focused squarely on streamlining, that she wasn’t even aware of the TFN until recently, and that their proposed deletions were not in any way politically motivated. My first reaction was: Really? The committee just happened to water down precisely the four passages the pro-Darwin TFN named as public enemy number 1, and the committee includes a vocal Darwin defender, Ron Wetherington, but somehow it was never the committee’s intent to put a giant thumb on the scale for Darwin?

Wetherington himself testified a bit later and made it abundantly obvious that he’s had it in for these four passages since they first made it into the TEKS. Some able cross-examination from conservative state school board member Marty Rowley (Amarillo) further underscored this fact.

In all fairness, Ard may indeed have been largely unaware of what was at stake, or at least had little interest in or knowledge about the origins controversy and was merely happy not to have to cover it during a biology course jam packed with other material. She insisted that when Wetherington debated evolution with molecular biologist Ray Bohlin and Baylor University chemistry professor Charles Garner during their curriculum revision meetings, she and several of the other committee members were at sea, unable to follow the discussion.

OK, but that brings me to the second thought I had on hearing Ard’s plea of non-political motives: Intent is secondary. The primary issue is effect. And the effect of watering down these four sections of the TEKS would be to give biology teachers who want to teach the scientific controversy over modern evolutionary theory less cover than they have now.

And here’s why that’s a problem. The national Darwin lobby is in the habit of targeting and persecuting teachers and professors who dare call into question Darwinian dogma. The Discovery Institute, where I now work, has come to the aid of many teachers and professors who have been targeted by militant Darwinists intent on suppressing the evidence against modern evolutionary theory. That pattern of attack and suppression is why Texas biology teachers with the courage to teach the controversy can use all the cover that the state board of education and the TEKS can give them.

More hearings are set for early next year, and a final meeting and decision in April. It’s in Texas’ best interest that at least eight members of the board (a majority) find the clarity and courage to do the right thing by voting to preserve these key passages in the current standards, standards that free biology teachers to safely teach students to critically scrutinize evolutionary theory, warts and all. (For more from the author of “Texas Committee: High Schoolers Can’t Handle Evidence Against Darwinism” please click HERE)

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Entitled Couple Live-Tweets Their Abortion Journey, but What About Their Baby’s Right to Live?

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A blessing and a curse of the Internet is that it allows us to peek into the living rooms — even bedrooms — of other people’s lives. Often now, many people invite us into their lives purposely, and reveal intimate details intentionally, for altruism, pity — a redress of grievances — and so on. Last week, an Irish woman was so frustrated and outraged she couldn’t have an abortion in her country (abortions are banned in Ireland) that she trekked to Liverpool, England. She documented the entire journey live, Twitter-ranting, complaining, and justifying her decision as she went.

The circumstances

The Daily Mail reported that, using the name “Heartbroken&Punished,” an anonymous couple living in Ireland began tweeting the story of her unfolding abortion. The couple, who already has one living child with a several disability, left that child in care of family members in order to travel to Liverpool, about 150 miles away, to abort their unborn baby. Prenatal testing had revealed the unborn child had “Edwards syndrome, which is a fatal foetal abnormality.” The father said, “We were told that even if carried to full term, the period of life would be counted in the minutes and hours after birth.” According to the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013, abortion is only legal in Ireland if the life of the mother is at risk.

In their pinned tweet, the couple writes that they tried several times to conceive, despite knowing that baby too would risk the same genetic abnormality as their first child. They were told if the wife gave birth to a child with Edwards, “if carried to full term the period of life would be counted in the minutes and hours after birth.” The father called it a “crushing sentence” and the “most humane thing possible to do to a baby that will never survive.”

The couple wrote about how they chose to document their journey because they “hope this may enlighten those who do not want to listen or even allow the people of this country to decide for themselves” since their government has “kicked the can down the road and we must decide if we can allow this to happen.”

The blame game

The majority of the tweets were aimed at the Irish government. In fact, almost every tweet along the journey includes the hashtag “it’s time to repeal,” referring to Ireland’s law. In 2014, less than 4,000 women travelled to the U.K. to receive an abortion due to Ireland’s strict law. The woman concluded because she decided to abort her children, due to the results of the genetic testing, her “country doesn’t care.”

Because of the unborn child’s diagnosis with Edward’s, the couple assumed they have no other choice but abortion and then assumed the government should allow it, simply so they don’t have to be inconvenienced. Both these conclusions, while understandable (and indeed heartbreaking) are misinformed.

Tell me: Is there anything more ironic than complaining about the hardship it’s been to travel to abort your child? More narcissistic than demanding you’re so entitled, your government should adjust its laws so you can terminate your baby? Indeed, nothing says your “country doesn’t care” more than forcing a woman to travel a few miles to abort her child. How selfish; how egocentric; how greedy.

Wrong on both counts

The idea of getting an abortion to end a pregnancy — especially in cases of rape, incest, or when a child will likely not survive long past birth — can be understandably attractive to a woman or her husband, it is still wrong. Adoption is always a viable, positive option that is truly a “win-win-win” for mom, baby, and a couple waiting to adopt — particularly in the case of rape or incest. And according to this news story, there are 14 times more couples in Ireland waiting to adopt than there are children to adopt. In the case of fetal abnormalities, like the unborn child of this couple, it would likely be more humane to allow the baby to be born and die a natural death. Babies feel pain during abortion as early as 8 weeks. (It appears this mother was about 12 weeks along.) This outcome, while still tragic, may have been less painful for baby, and less emotionally devastating for the parents — and it certainly would have avoided a trip to Liverpool. Abortion, contrary to popular belief, is rarely a humane option for baby or mom.

Not only that, but it’s deeply saddening to see the couple attempted to use this experience as a way to redress their grievances to their government — to appeal to change their abortion law. They essentially argued, “I want to terminate my baby. How dare the government not acquiesce to my every whim!” While the story did pick up traction, think of how upside down that sounds when the people of Ireland think abortion is a right and the government should provide it. I can assure you, the unborn babies growing in the wombs of Irish mothers are thankful for Ireland’s law, even if a few frustrated mothers are not. (For more from the author of “Entitled Couple Live-Tweets Their Abortion Journey, but What About Their Baby’s Right to Live?” please click HERE)

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Clinton: ‘All I Wanted to Do Was Just to Curl up’ This Past Week

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Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that in the week since her stunning loss in the presidential election, there have been times when she’s wanted to hole up at home and “never leave the house again.”

But she urged her supporters to stay engaged and fight for the values that propelled her campaign.

“I will admit, coming here tonight wasn’t the easiest thing for me,” she said to the audience at a gala for the Children’s Defense Fund. “There have been a few times this past week where all I wanted to do was just to curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again.”

But Clinton struck a positive note, saying that her presidential campaign was about the “country we love.”

“And about building an America that is hopeful, inclusive and big-hearted,” she said during the ceremony, where she was being honored for her child advocacy work. (Read more from “Clinton: ‘All I Wanted to Do Was Just to Curl up’ This Past Week” HERE)

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‘The Lord’s Been Good’: Mother Reunited With Daughter After 62 Years

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In 1954, Goldie Waltman was young, single and unemployed. She’d just given birth to a daughter, Patricia Lorenz, when she realized she couldn’t take care of the baby and left her in the care of a couple she’d been staying with. She prayed for her daughter every day, but leaving her wasn’t easy. “I gave her up, and it was the hardest thing I ever did in my life,” the 85-year-old Waltman said, in a story reported by Fox8.

She kept her daughter a secret from her five children born later. Waltman’s daughter Kellie Taylor said that it was at a doctor’s visit five years ago that she and another sister found out about Lorenz. The doctor asked Waltman how many children she had and she said six. “No, you have five,” her daughter said. When Waltman responded, “No, I have six,” her daughters realized they had a sibling they never knew.

For the last five years the family has searched for Lorenz without luck. Two weeks ago, Waltman connected with her daughter through ancestry.com and the two sent messages back and forth. Waltman got a phone call the same day from the little girl she gave up so long ago. “She said ‘It’s Patty,” and I said ‘Oh!’” said Waltman.

Waltman’s family flew Lorenz to see her mother this week, reuniting mother and daughter after 62 years. “I finally got to see her,” said Waltman. “The Lord’s been good. I didn’t think this would ever happen.”

Lorenz was just as excited to see her birth mother after searching for her for 47 years. “I don’t know how to explain it,” she said. “I’ve been excited about coming to meet her and see her for so long, and it’s like a reality come true.”

Lorenz will meet the rest of the family throughout the weekend. (For more from the author of “‘The Lord’s Been Good’: Mother Reunited With Daughter After 62 Years” please click HERE)

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How Infantilized Campuses Threaten Our Nation’s Future

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What are we to make of higher education when students and institutions respond to the recent presidential election with cry-ins, canceled exams, therapy dogs, Play-Doh, coloring books, group screams, Legos, bubble-blowing, and trauma counseling? Well, college “ain’t what it used to be.”

For some time, higher learning has been a political matter, one where the primary aim is to usher students into the club of elite (supposedly enlightened) progressive opinion. Gone is the formation of keen, analytical habits of mind and rational argument.

The result is not just a poorly educated student body, but an infantilized one. Mature discourse is out, and fragility, dependence, and bad temper is in.

Rather than cultivate habits of sustained and sober thought, we encourage manufactured outrage and self-indulgent victimhood. Anyone who has spent time with 2-year-olds recognizes the behavior. In our case, however, we appear to cultivate it on our campuses.

An infantilized campus is bad enough, but it becomes intolerable when these are the places where leaders of a self-governing republic are usually formed.

Regardless of party or position, a citizenry incapable of facing adversity or unwilling to reason about and discuss difficult, public things will not likely produce leaders who can do so. If college campuses steep our future leaders in habits of entitled fragility, the only politics they will be able to imagine is that of the tantrum.

Tellingly, this is exactly the kind of politics we have seen on campus, and, increasingly, off campus as well.

A darker view would regard our infantilized campuses as something more sinister than the accidental byproduct of politicized higher education. When the noise of a tantrum becomes a primary political instrument in place of reason, persuasion, and evidence, then volume, not thought, wins the day.

And volume is coercive. When 2-year-olds throw tantrums, they attempt to force matters and get their own way. A set of people taught not to reason but to huddle in safe spaces and throw the occasional tantrum is a people taught to impose their will. They have not been denied a voice; rather, they are intent upon being the only voice.

This is not to say that all post-election anxiety is necessarily irrational. But it is a lack of the aforementioned habits that makes aggression and extremism so common.

Genuine higher learning requires (among other things) time, intense application of thought, patient reflection, and maturity. Rather than an education in elite and coddled groupthink, real learning is an education in honed and sound thinking—thinking that is not victim to every fleeting passion.

This is precisely the kind of learning poet Robert Frost had in mind when he wrote, “So when at times the mob is swayed/ To carry praise or blame too far,/ We may choose something like a star/ To stay our minds on and be said.”

If we cannot restore the “higher” to higher education, if we cannot put down our Play-Doh and take up our Plato, it’s unlikely we’ll see a return of either to our politics or our learning. (For more from the author of “How Infantilized Campuses Threaten Our Nation’s Future” please click HERE)

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DC City Council Approves Assisted Suicide Again, Sends Bill to Mayor’s Desk

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The Washington, D.C. city council voted again to approve assisted suicide, sending the bill to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s desk.

On November 1, the city council voted 11-2 to pass Bill 21-38, the Death With Dignity Act. On November 15, the council approved the bill 11-2 again. The Death with Dignity Act would allow doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to patients who they think have less than six months to live.

The November 1 vote featured a heated discussion of the bill in which numerous pro-assisted suicide members of the city council became choked up describing how they had watched relatives suffer before death. In her arguments in favor of the bill, Councilmember Elissa Silverman recalled how her grandmother had been hooked up to a ventilator.

There was no debate before the November 15 vote. Councilmembers Brianne Nadeau and Yvette Alexander, the same councilmembers who opposed the bill on November 1, voted against it Tuesday. (Read more from “DC City Council Approves Assisted Suicide Again, Sends Bill to Mayor’s Desk” HERE)

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Mother Sues as County Gives Teen ‘Sex Change’ Treatment

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A Minnesota mother is suing local school and county officials for allegedly attempting to facilitate her teenage son’s “sex change” and usurping her parental rights.

In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday morning, Anmarie Calgaro accused Child Services and education officials in St. Louis County of denying her the right to raise her 17-year old son. The lawsuit also names multiple non-profits that have assisted the minor, identified as only “J.D.K.” in the suit, in claiming legal “emancipation” from his mother.

Calgaro is asking a federal court to revoke the county’s ability to deny her rights as a parent until she has her day in court. She is also demanding access to all records related to J.D.K., as well as attorney fees.

Erick Kaardal, a Thomas More Society Special Counsel and Calgaro’s attorney, told The Stream that J.D.K.’s claim of “emancipation” — that is, providing “a minor child … the same legal rights and obligations as an eighteen year-old adult,” according to Kaardal — is invalid because neither the teen nor state officials have proven Calgaro to be a deficient parent.

“There are no set standards” in the state, explained Kaardal. Emancipation “would be determined case-to-case; if there were a court hearing, the minor would have to prove that the conduct of a parent or parents is such that they have given up control and custody of the minor.” However, “under Minnesota Statute § 144.341, it appears that a minor who is living separate from his parents or guardian — with or without consent — and is managing his personal financial affairs ‘may give effective consent’ to medical services.”

The Stream was unable to reach County Child Services officials or state judicial officials about the state’s view of emancipation.

Kaardal said that “the minor child was simply rebellious at the time” when he claimed emancipation, but that things have improved. “Presently, they are communicating with each other and have visited each other in person. Ms. Calgaro has and continues to encourage J.D.K. to maintain their relationship. Ms. Calgaro has welcomed him home.”

Meanwhile, county taxpayers are on the hook for J.D.K.’s treatment. “Medical services are being paid or approved or both by St. Louis County through related agencies and entities providing the services to J.D.K.,” said Kaardal.

The State Law

The legal basis for the county to facilitate J.D.K.’s “sex change”can be traced back to Minnesota’s Minor’s Consent to Health Service Act passed in 1971. [Minnesota Statutes – Chapter 144, Sections 144.341 – 144.347] Kaardal quoted a March 2006 Minnesota Public Health Association publication as explaining the law was meant to address “the critical and unmet health needs of minors during a time of enormous social change.”

Kaardal further quoted the document:

Changes in family structures and the broadening of the individual rights of minorities, women and children showed that minors were particularly vulnerable if they needed to seek health services. While Minnesota law was silent on the ability of minors to access health services, practitioners declined to see or treat minors without parental consent, fearing potential liabilities. Minors, apprehensive of parental reactions, embarrassment or disrupting family harmony, were not receiving needed health services, often jeopardizing their health and future lives.

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Second Man Convicted, Third Man Arrested for Helping Ex-Lesbian Christian Mother Escape Country With Child

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A second man was convicted and a third was recently deported to the U.S. from Nicaragua and arrested in the case of a former lesbian turned Christian mother who fled the country to shield her daughter from what she felt was a dangerous homosexual lifestyle at the hands of her former lesbian partner. The original article was published here.

Defendants

Philip Zodhiates, 61, was convicted of international parental kidnapping and conspiracy to commit international parental kidnapping in September and could be sentenced up to eight years in prison and fined $500,000 at his sentencing hearing on January 30, 2017. Authorities believe Zodhiates drove Lisa Miller and her daughter, Isabelle, to Buffalo, New York where she and the little girl crossed the Rainbow Bridge into Canada.

Timothy “Timo” Miller (not related to Lisa Miller), was detained in Nicaragua in August, 2016 and eventually deported to the United States where he was arrested for his role in helping Lisa Miller and her daughter make their way through Nicaragua. Timo Miller, a missionary in Nicaragua, was snatched suddenly by Nicaraguan officials, leaving his bike in the road, without any word to his family for days. He spent around three months in cramped, dungeon-like conditions until Nicaragua deported him to the U.S. On October 14, 2016, Timo Miller appeared before the United States District Court, Western District of New York, and consented to pretrial detention. He is now being held until his trial begins, unless he reconsiders and moves for a pretrial release.

The Story

Lisa Miller had previously been involved in a lesbian relationship with Janet Jenkins and joined with her in a civil union in Vermont, since their home state of Virginia did not recognize same-sex marriages at the time. In 2001, Lisa Miller underwent fertility treatments and became pregnant with her daughter, Isabella. Isabella was born on April 16, 2002, but within a year, Miller became a Christian and decided to leave the homosexual lifestyle and her relationship with Jenkins. “It wasn’t a struggle,” Lisa told the Washington Post in 2007. “I felt peace.” She began attending a local Baptist church with Isabella and eventually enrolled Isabella in a Christian school where she taught.

In the beginning, Lisa Miller and Jenkins shared custody of Isabella. But when Isabella began exhibiting concerning behaviors, such as wetting the bed, having nightmares, touching herself inappropriately and threatening suicide after her visits with Jenkins, Miller refused to send Isabella for her visitations. After a series of court dates, Janet was awarded custody, which was scheduled to begin on January 1, 2010.

By the end of September, however, Lisa and Isabella were gone.

Lisa, with the help of several Mennonite Christians, fled the country with her daughter to Nicaragua, crossing the Rainbow Bridge from Niagara Falls, New York, to Canada, according to court documents, around September 22, 2009.

The Arrests

Timo Miller was originally arrested in April 2011 for aiding and abetting the “kidnapping” of Isabella. Authorities believed Timothy Miller helped Lisa Miller travel to a “safe house” in Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua.

In December of that year, the prosecution dropped the charges against him in exchange for his testimony and cooperation in their investigation against Mennonite pastor Kenneth Miller (no relation to either Timothy Miller or Lisa Miller).

Kenneth Miller was convicted for “aiding international parental kidnapping” in December 2011 and sentenced 27 months in prison, reported The Charley Project. The pastor of an Amish-Mennonite community, he helped Lisa and Isabelle by getting fellow Amish-Mennonites to purchase plane tickets for a flight from Canada to Nicaragua through Mexico and El Salvador. He also purchased the typical Mennonite dresses, which Lisa and Isabelle wore to conceal their identities.

Standing With Lisa

Before he reported to prison in March of this year, Kenneth wrote on his blog about why he did what he did. “I’m going to prison today because a woman’s faith and modern society collided,” he said. “About 12 years ago Lisa Miller discovered that Jesus of Nazareth was powerful enough to take away her sins. He transformed her life and her lifestyle. In the long, winding journey since then, Lisa has sought to remain true to her Savior and her conscience.”

“I am greatly privileged to stand with Lisa in her quest for truth and freedom,” he added. “Some things can never be locked up inside prison walls. Truth. Conscience. Moral righteousness. And the saving Gospel of Jesus.”

What Now?

Upon hearing of Timo Miller’s 2011 arrest, Lisa Miller and her daughter disappeared from their Jinotega, Nicaragua home and haven’t been seen since. According to the New York Times, authorities believe the two are still in Nicaragua. Isabella is now 14 years old.

Liberty Counsel’s Rena M. Lindevaldsen, co-counsel with Mathew Staver on Lisa’s case, said that she knew Lisa could go to prison if caught and that would hurt Isabella, but she doesn’t blame Lisa. “It’s sad that in America a woman was faced with this choice,” she said. “The court overstepped its bounds, calling someone a parent who is not a parent and turning a child over to a person who lives contrary to biblical truths.” (For more from the author of “Second Man Convicted, Third Man Arrested for Helping Ex-Lesbian Christian Mother Escape Country With Child” please click HERE)

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