It looks like the end of the road, finally, in the Miller-Jenkins case. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled unanimously to uphold the appeals court ruling that Virginia has no jurisdiction over the visitation dispute between a former lesbian couple that was originally filed in Vermont.

This is the case where the couple had a child together, then the biological mother, Lisa Miller, later left and filed for dissolution of the Vermont civil union in the state of Vermont, calling Janet Jenkins the mother of the child and asking for child support. Then she became a born again Christian, decided that being gay was wrong and filed in Virginia to have all custody and visitation rights taken away from Janet.

The problem is that the Vermont court had primary jurisdiction and gave Janet visitation. Under federal law, once one state has issued a custody or visitation ruling, no other state may exercise jurisdiction in the case. The Virginia appeals court ruled that way and the Virginia Supreme Court has now upheld that ruling unanimously.

Naturally, the religious right media is furiously lying about the ruling. The Worldnutdaily claims:

The Virginia State Supreme Court whiffed today on an opportunity to preserve state sovereignty and solidify traditional marriage laws. Instead, the court upheld a ruling that may allow states like Massachusetts and Vermont to export homosexual marriage laws across the country.

Utter nonsense. This case has nothing to do with exporting anything, nor does it have anything to do with civil union laws. The Vermont court had jurisdiction because that's where Lisa Miller filed the case. Had she originally filed in Virginia and that court had issued a ruling, then Vermont would have no jurisdiction in the case under federal law. Expect much wailing and gnashing of teeth over this, all of it based on a flat out lie.