Idaho Bigots Won't Let Elderly Gay Veteran Be Buried With Her Wife

[onehandle]

Madelynn Taylor, 74, served six years in the Navy. Madelynn Taylor grew up with the woman she would eventually marry in Oregon, in 1995. Madelynn Taylor is welcome to be buried in the veterans' cemetery in Idaho, where she now lives. But not with her now-deceased spouse, thanks to an anti-gay state law.

CBS's local affiliate in Boise explains the sadmaking, then angrymaking, situation in the video above. The problem is that Idaho won't recognize Taylor's marriage, even though it lasted longer than marriage bigots' tenuous hold on U.S. public opinion:

"I'm not surprised," Taylor told the station. "I've been discriminated against for 70 years, and they might as well discriminate against me in death as well as life."

The Division of Veterans Services says there is nothing they can do because they have to follow the Idaho Constitution, which says "a marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state."

http://gawker.com/idaho-bigots-wont-let-elderly-gay-veteran-be-buried-wit-1567132253

[randys1]

1. Hate Gays...Hate Latino's...Hate African Americans...Hate Women...

What does that spell?


R E P U B L I C A N --- T E A P A R T Y

[Jenoch]

2. My father's much older BIL is buried in

Arlington National Cemetary even though he hid not serve in the military. He was cremated and put in the same gravesite as his twin brother who died in action in the Pacific theater. My uncle was on the design team who created the P-38 fighter. All it took to get him buried at Arlington was to get a bill passed through both houses of congress and signed into law by LBJ.

[nilesobek]

3. Yet another shameful situation for my state.

I rolled on down to Democratic Headquarters down the street from my house and all I saw was boarded up windows, 3 foot tall weeds and crickets chirping.

Things will never change here in Idaho until we get involved in activism. We cannot give up.

[shenmue]

4. Even in death, they will not allow respect and peace

Love is love.

[HughBeaumont]

5. I made the mistake of reading this story on Yahoo.com.

Jesus H GOD . . . their disgrace-to-humanity trolls are the first round draft picks in the warped bastard fucker lottery. They make the Teahad look sane.

Human rights should never be denied, especially in federally-recognized marriages.