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Fischer Says Ex-Gay Mom had an Obligation to God to Kidnap Her Daughter and Flee

For years now(link is external), we have been covering the case of Lisa Miller(link is external), a former lesbian who found Christ thanks to Jerry Falwell's church and then sought to prevent her former partner from having any sort of visitation with the couple's daughter.  After repeated violations of court orders regarding visitation arrangements, Miller was ordered to hand over custody of her daughter, at which points she kidnapped her and fled the country.

Ever since, the case has become a rallying point for anti-gay Religious Right activists and today a trial got underway(link is external) for a man accused of helping Miller and her daughter flee to South America, prompting Bryan Fischer(link is external) to come to Miller's defense(link is external) by declaring that this kidnapping was entirely justified because the little girl was being sexually abused by Miller's former partner and so Miller had a responsibility "to obey God rather than man" and had no choice but to kidnap her daughter and run: