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What started as a custody battle over little Isabella Miller-Jenkins has turned into a global manhunt, with indications that Mennonite pastors and other faith-based supporters may have helped hide the girl and her "ex-gay" mother.

A Tennessee missionary charged with helping a woman get her child out of the United States as part of a high-profile lesbian custody case in Vermont says he’s not guilty.

A Christian missionary charged with helping a woman take her 9-year-old daughter to Central America during a custody dispute with her former lesbian partner was allowed Monday to remain free on $25,000 bond.

Lisa Miller failed to comply with a court order to surrender custody of her daughter, Isabella, to her former life partner, Sally Jenkins, last year. Instead, she and Isabella disappeared. Now it seems she fled to Nicaragua with the little girl.

Anti-gay pundits clamor for "life" and hail "law" when it means gay families suffer. But how quickly law goes by the wayside when it’s inconvenient for them.

A case of possible parental abduction involving courts in two states would be sad, but unremarkable, except for one thing: both parents of the 7-year-old girl who has gone missing along with her mother are women.