I'm all for fighting to legally change unjust laws. I'm completely against disobeying laws because they violate some personal sense of religious or philosophical superiority.
"it might end up being jail, it might end up being something worse. Dr. King ended up being thrown into the Birmingham Jail for his role in the civil rights movement."
I would hardly equate Dr. King's acts of civil disobedience with this woman's purposeful violation of a court order - an order only enforcing an agreement that she willfully entered into.
If you don't want to have lesbians in your life, then don't move in with them and enter into a civil contract with them, which is precisely what this lady did. I understand from another poster, that Miller went as far as to petition the court for child support payments from her "partner". You can't ask the court to intervene and then say "never-mind" when a ruling goes counter to your interest. It's un-American.
Assuming that this woman is genuine about her conversion, the matter is exactly the same - disobeying a legal principle that is morally unjust (and this agreement was unjust even when she entered into it, even though she didn't think so at the time).
I understand from another poster, that Miller went as far as to petition the court for child support payments from her "partner". You can't ask the court to intervene and then say "never-mind" when a ruling goes counter to your interest. It's un-American.
I never heard about the child support payments... that is an interesting complication. From a legal perspective, it sounds like she's in a bad way without a whole lot to stand on.
That said, assuming I remember correctly, the "partner"'s current lifestyle is one that a court should deem harmful for the child regardless of the agreement that had been entered into (my opinion only, of course).
If you don't want to have lesbians in your life, then don't move in with them and enter into a civil contract with them, which is precisely what this lady did.
Have you never done anything in your life that you regret? At the time she did this, she wanted to; now, she believes what she did was wrong - I think it was a positive development for her, although it is a little late considering that there is a completely innocent child stuck in the middle.
I'm completely against disobeying laws because they violate some personal sense of religious or philosophical superiority.
I'm sorry you feel that way. For me (and I would assume a whole lot of other FReepers), God comes before country.