Ethics

Worldnutdaily Lies About Miller-Jenkins Case

By Ed Brayton

I'm sure many of you remember the Miller-Jenkins case, where a lesbian couple entered into a civil union in Vermont, had a child together and are locked in a battle over visitation for that child. Lisa Miller, the biological mother, initially filed to dissolve the civil union in a Vermont court and in her petition to the court she specifically named Janet Jenkins as the child's adoptive mother and asked for child support. The Vermont court granted both the dissolution and the child support.

Miller then had a conversion to Christianity and decided that she was no longer a lesbian and went to Virginia and filed in court there to deny all parental rights to Jenkins. The trial judge there granted her request but the appeals court overturned it. Under the full faith and credit clause and under Federal statutory law, the Vermont court orders took legal precedence and the Virginia courts subsequently had no jurisdiction.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).