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"Madelynn Taylor, 74, served six years in the United States Navy. When she passes away, she says, she wants to be buried with the ashes of her late wife, Jean Mixner, in the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery.

"But there's a problem. Because gay marriage isn't recognized in Idaho, Taylor's wish has been denied, even though the cemetery allows opposite-sex spouses to be buried or interred with veterans, KBOI.com reports.

'I'm not surprised,' Taylor said to KBOI.com. 'I've been discriminated against for 70 years, and they might as well discriminate against me in death as well as life.'"

Even though same-sex marriage remains illegal in Idaho, should the state veterans' cemetery have allowed these two to be buried together? Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz and John Iadarola break it down on The Young Turks.

For more information on this story, read the Yahoo News piece by Mike Krumboltz here:

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