Lesbian Couple Denied Plot In State Cemetery Offered Spot By Fellow Veteran
Credit: Boiseweekly.com
May 1, 2014

Via Americans Against The Tea Party:

Last week, Madelynn Taylor was told that her spouse, who had passed away and was cremated in 2012, would not be buried next to her in a veteran’s cemetery. This week, a fellow veteran stepped forward and offered his own burial plot, so the couple could be buried together.

Madelynn Taylor served for six years  prior to the Vietnamese war when she was discharged for telling her supervisors that she was gay. She met and fell in love with Jean Mixner in 1995, and the couple married shortly after that. When Mixner died in 2012, Taylor began making arrangements for her own burial. However, sh...

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