MARRIAGE POLICY HURTS GAYS: From the Denver Post

A Thornton woman has filed a complaint with the Social Security Administration, where her lesbian partner works, claiming she was denied a job because the agency considers her married to her partner.

Fay McCall's partner, Karen Muller, works as a Social Security claims representative. Muller said she was told by an office manager that McCall couldn't have the job because a regional manager placed a prohibition on hiring married couples.

Gay couples cannot marry under state or federal law. Muller cannot list McCall as a beneficiary on her federal health plan. And, in what the two women see as the greatest of ironies, neither could receive the other's Social Security death benefits if one died.

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