Ethics

More Worldnutdaily Nonsense on Miller-Jenkins Case

By Ed Brayton

The Worldnutdaily, along with most of the religious right media, continues to lie through their collective teeth about the Miller-Jenkins case.

The jurisdictional battle went before each state's supreme court. Though Isabella was born in Virginia, and the Millers live in the state, the Virginia State Supreme Court stepped away from its own state's precedents and affirmed the Vermont's assertion of jurisdiction. The Vermont Supreme Court has determined that Jenkins is one of Isabella's parents.

The case led to a clash over whether Vermont could reach over state lines to impose its civil union laws on Virginia's soil. The U.S. Supreme Court could have also rendered a decision to clarify the conflict between the two states' laws but declined to hear the case.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 02, 2009 (boomark / email).