Today's ruling may not help McQuire with one thing he was hoping to get: the veteran and Social Security benefits from Martinez that normally would go to a spouse, money he said he needs to keep the couple's Green Valley home.
Attorney Jennifer Pizer said that is because federal law requires marriages to be of a certain length to prevent "sham'' weddings solely for benefits. But Pizer said that, armed with today's ruling, she intends to challenge that limit as it applies to gay couples whose home state has thrown roadblocks in their path.
In this case, she said, McQuire and Martinez were together and lived as spouses for 45 years, with only the Arizona law preventing them from being called married.
But since this state is famous
for its contempt against veterans, (besides gays and Mexicans) I highly doubt the cold heartless hag governor Skeletor would let this go by.
In another victory for equal rights in this country a federal judge has ordered Hell on Earth Arizona, my current state of residence unfortunately, to recognize the gay marriage of a Vietnam war vet to his dead husband and thus he is entitled to death benefits like heterosexuals (who have a habit of beating their wives and getting away with it). And this ruling is important because the guy needs those benefits in order to save his home he bought with his husband:
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