[Vision2020] Idaho veteran's cemetery won't bury gay spouse

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of KHQ at:

http://www.khq.com/story/25344702/idaho-veterans-cemetery-wont-bury-gay-spouse
 
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Idaho veteran's cemetery won't bury gay spouse

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A 74-year-old Boise woman wants to overturn a constitutional amendment that says Idaho doesn't recognize same-sex marriage after learning the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery won't allow her to be buried with her partner's ashes.

Madelynn Taylor served in the U.S. Navy for six years. She says after her spouse Jean Mixner died in 2012 she went to the veteran's cemetery to make arrangements for them to be buried together, but cemetery rules require a valid marriage certificate. The state of Idaho does not recognize their 2008 marriage in California.

Taylor keeps Mixner's ashes in her closet. She says if she dies without both being accepted into the state veteran's cemetery, someone will keep their ashes together until they are allowed to be buried in that cemetery.

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Tom Hansen
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