Ethics

Worldnutdaily Frames the Miller-Jenkins Case

By Ed Brayton

Now that the Supreme Court has rejected -- for the 5th time -- to hear an appeal of the Miller-Jenkins case, the Worldnutdaily is ready with a handy frame for their credulous readers. The headline declares:

Will Christian mom lose daughter to lesbian?

Because that's all that really matters, that Janet Jenkins is a lesbian. Never mind that she and Lisa Miller made the decision to have that daughter together, that they were involved in a legal union at the time, that they raised that daughter together for a year and a half taking positive steps to make sure that Janet would be bonded with the child, and that Lisa filed papers in court herself referring to Janet as a mother to the child and asking the court to grant both visitation and child support.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).