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Man protesting DOMA, IRS is facing prison for not paying taxes

”Marriage between ‘gender neutral’ couples is legal in California, but our union is not recognized by the Federal Government and we don’t get the over 1,000 Federal benefits automatically extended to heterosexual couples. This inequality, thanks to the Defense of Marriage Act, was voted on by congress and signed into law by President Clinton. What a can of worms that has turned out to be … President Bush believing in and talking to an imaginary sky god and wanting to make an amendment to our Constitution that would ban two people in love from getting married. The Government has no business in checking out the gender of two people who want to be married. Presidential Candidate John McCain was living in adultery with his present wife Cindy while still married to his former wife. According to the Bible, he should have been stoned to death for adultery…. Since our marriage is not recognized by the Federal Government, the carving over the Supreme Court of the United States is just meaningless words, the words that say, ‘Equal Justice Under The Law.

Portion of a press release from bisexual millionaire, Charles Merrill, 73, who has been in a same-sex relationship with Kevin Boyle for 116 years. Merrill is an artist and ”fervent atheist” who has not paid his taxes for 3 years in protest of the federal government’s adoption of DOMA. He faces 3 years in jail and a $25,000 fine. (StreetInsider.com)

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