MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A Virginia
pastor who interfered with a custody dispute involving a lesbian couple in
Vermont will remain jailed for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury.
Kenneth Miller, 47, was convicted last
summer of helping Lisa Miller and her daughter leave the country in September
2009 to avoid sharing custody with her former partner. Prosecutors are trying
to compel the pastor to testify against someone else involved in the flight,
but Miller said his fundamentalist Christian faith prevents him from doing so.
Miller, of Stuarts Draft, Va., was
jailed a week ago after refusing a judge's order that he testify before a grand
jury. At a hearing Thursday said he hasn't changed his mind.
The Millers are not related.
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