Virginia: Volunteer firefighters will not be prosecuted

By Elizabeth Wilkerson , The Northern Virginia Daily

STRASBURG — Two members of the Strasburg Volunteer Fire Department who were charged in relation to the alleged harassment of one of the company's junior members will not be prosecuted, Commonwealth's Attorney Albert T. Mitchell said Monday.

Third-party warrants were issued for Jason Rush, 27, on Aug. 1, and Tyler Williams, 18, on July 31, based on criminal complaints made by Kimberly Brill, a member of Strasburg's Rescue Squad, and her then-17-year-old son, a junior volunteer at the fire company.

Rush, a lieutenant with the fire company, was charged with assault, a Class 1 misdemeanor, based on a criminal complaint made by Brill's son. According to the complaint, the boy had been "hit in the groin with [Rush's] fists and a ball in a non-joking manner a number of times."

In the complaint, Brill's son also says Rush called him a "faggot" numerous times and tried to get him suspended for things he hadn't done.

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Lisa and Janet split, Isabella pays the price

BACKSTORIES

Lisa Miller must really dislike her former lover Janet Jenkins.

Lisa continues her attempts to deny Janet visitation with their daughter.

According to a AP article the judged dismissed Lisa's most recent attempt.

Dear Lisa,

You sound very self centered [ie: if you love your daughter you wouldn't do this to her], using your daughter as a wedge for your anger only harms everyone [yourself, Isabella and Janet]. It seems you are okay with the "fallout"!

Darling Lisa, if you wish to be angry, spiteful and end up with high blood pressure that is your choice and should affect ONLY YOU!

Isabella has feelings and would like to make her choice as well.

It is very very wrong for you to deny Isabella her choice!

As a part of the GLBTQIA community it seems very hypocritical to tell your daughter who she can love!

Update: Virginia upholds Vermonts' lesbian child custody ruling

Windy City Times

Lisa and Janet Miller-Jenkins entered into a civil union in Vermont in 2001, and daughter Isabella was born shortly thereafter. ( Lisa was artificially inseminated. ) After the couple broke up, Lisa—who changed her surname to Miller—moved to Virginia and renounced her lesbianism. A Vermont court gave Miller primary custody and awarded Janet Jenkins visitation rights. Then, a Virginia court granted Miller sole custody and denied Jenkins visits. However, on June 6th, the state's supreme court employed a federal statute to enforce the Vermont court's ruling.

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Janet, Lisa and Isabella

Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller got hitched and had a baby together. Vermont says that's a simple truth. Virginia said it was all null and void. The future of a little girl hangs in the balance.

BLOGGER NOTE: As I read the words above I noticed a similar story. I had to look at them both a couple of times because the tone of each were polar opposites.

JANET AND LISA MILLER-JENKINS MADE LOVE IN THE MORNING BEFORE LEAVING FOR THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE. At least that's how Janet remembers it. "We had a connection in the morning before we left," Janet said. Afterward, eager to keep their tender connection alive amid the clinical setting of the infertility specialist's office, Janet laid her hands upon her partner -- one palm on Lisa's thigh, the other on Lisa's upper arm -- as a doctor inseminated Lisa with sperm from an anonymous man the two women knew only as donor No. 2309. It was, according to Janet, a ritual the Virginia couple repeated more than once before Lisa gave birth April 16, 2002, to a 5-pound, 15-ounce baby girl named Isabella Ruth Miller-Jenkins.

"This baby was made in love," said Janet, now 42 and living in Vermont.

Lisa, 38, offers a dramatically different account of the begetting of Isabella. According to her, Janet didn't even go with her to the fertility doctor's office on the day Isabella was conceived.

That's just one of many issues Lisa and Janet are arguing in court, where the final chapters of their modern love story are being written. As with other couples who have split, their truths have diverged; through the lens of loss, each views their time together differently. Unlike most warring couples, however, the once hopeful and happy Miller-Jenkinses are at the center of a high-stakes, ideologically charged legal dispute waged across several courtrooms in two states. On one side are lawyers who are leading gay-rights activists; on the other are legal combatants for a conservative Christian foundation associated with Jerry Falwell.

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Christian Right article here