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Notable Quotes: The Center for American Progress

Posted by: ~Julie Phineas~ on March 9, 2009.

“The Social Security benefits we analyzed are only one of hundreds of federal privileges and benefits extended to opposite-sex married couples but denied to legally married same-sex couples.” – The Center for American Progress in a new study which finds that same-sex couples are denied more than $8,000 in Social Security benefits because the federal government doesn’t acknowledge their marriage.