Ethics

SCOTUS Refuses Miller-Jenkins Case. Again.

By Ed Brayton

I'm sure you all remember the Miller-Jenkins case, an ongoing visitation battle between two women who were in a civil union in Vermont and had a child together via insemination. Lisa Miller, the biological mother, left the relationship and initially asked a court to dissolve the civil union, grant visitation to Janet Jenkins, her former partner, and have Jenkins pay child support. Then she converted to Christianity, prayed away the gay and decided lesbians are evil, fled to Virginia and filed in court there to deny Jenkins any visitation. Miller has been incredibly relentless in pursuing the case, with help from the terminally ridiculous Matt Staver of Liberty Counsel. They've lost every appeal on this case in two states and in federal court. The Supreme Court has now denied cert in the case for the fifth time:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).