Money at stake in high court’s gay-marriage case
Posted: March 10, 2013 at 5:55 a.m.
Sharon Raphael (left) and Mina Meyer, who have been married more than four years, hold their marriage certificates Friday at their home in Long Beach, Calif. Meyer says if she becomes widowed, a higher Social Security check would help her weather the financial hit.
SAN FRANCISCO — For Mina Meyer and Sharon Raphael, two women in their 70s who fell in love more than four decades ago and have been married for more than four years, the U.S. Supreme Court’s pending review of a law that prohibits the federal government from recognizing unions like theirs is about more than civil rights.
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