Miller did get enter into a "domestic partnership" in VT with Jenkins early in that movement. Miller decided to get pregnant by a donor, but the law at the time didn't make the partner in a DP automatically a "parent." Adoption was required, and Jenkins showed no interest in adopting the child, and never did so. It wasn't until Miller became a Christian and repudiated her "gay" lifestyle that Jenkins laid claim to the child.
Yeah, it was messy. But the fact is that Jenkins isn't a parent.
It looks like it might be a legal problem tied to what got tied into “gay marriage.” When the USSC gave the nod, all domestic partnerships look like they got the upgrade.
Christians understand that this is vile stuff and want to see people escape its spiritual clutches if they can.
There is going to be a bumpy, bruisey time in learning what can and can’t be legally done under a compromised Caesar, and if Caesar has to be defied, how to do it in an orderly, God-honoring fashion. I’ve discovered that things I meant sincerely by the heart for good are sometimes simply seen as gratuitous acts by those who do not understand. In such a case I have to ask, if I came to the situation again, what would be wiser while still staying true to the Savior?
In some wise, Jenkins looks like she is being viewed as a parent or potential parent, someone with colorable rights. This is a new evil that must be addressed frankly and fairly. The best hope for America would be for its governments to back out of the gay-marriage biz even if they back out of all marriage too. Give the things of God to God, put in the private sphere, and let secular people do something like householding. Governments are now in an unprecedentedly poor position to moderate marriages anyhow, so getting out of that business might be salutary.