Madelynn Taylor served in the Navy for six years. That should be enough for her to have a final resting place in the Idaho Veterans Cemetery.

But Taylor, 74, wants the ashes of her late wife to join her. In Idaho, state law has it that marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s in the state constitution.

Taylor could go to a national veterans cemetery. That would be out of state.

She told the Boise Weekly she wants to be buried close to home.

State veterans officials told the Boise Weekly that they are sympathetic, but the law is the law.

“We have to honor, foremost, the state constitution,” one officials said.

So Taylor’s last wishes can’t be granted.

“I’m not surprised,” Taylor KBOI in Boise. “I’ve been discriminated against for 70 years, and they might as well discriminate against me in death as well as life.”

And she added this kicker: “I don’t see where the ashes of a couple old lesbians is going to hurt anyone.”