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Daily Kos: The Morgans Fight for Their Lives and Their Family’s Future
By Scott Wooledge
Charlie Morgan is on a mission. It isn't her first, she toured Kuwait for the US Army in 2010.
But this one's personal. Charlie has been diagnosed with incurable stage-four breast cancer. She doesn't know how much time she has left. She just took Grammy to see Wicked on Broadway. It was, in her words, an item on her "bucket list." And now she'd added another task to the list: "Take down the Defense of Marriage Act."
Karen and Charlie Morgan are two of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) has filed challenging the Constitutionality of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. This case is unique in that the 16 plaintiffs consist only of legally married same-sex couples. At least one of the members of the couples are an active duty or retired military servicemember. Charlie Morgan serves as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 of New Hampshire National Guard. The lawsuit is asking that the Department of Defense recognize servicemembers' marriages and provide equitable benefits that other married couples receive.
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