North Carolina residents Charles Merrill and his partner Kevin Boyle, founders of a group called Citizens Against Discrimination, are refusing to pay state and federal income taxes on their 2004 income, and stock sales totaling over 2 million dollars, because they cannot get married and receive the tax benefits available to married couples.

“By not paying taxes, this is a deliberate act of civil disobedience towards a President that wants to make an amendment to the Constitution to only allow marriage between a man and woman, rather than two people who love each other, and that discriminates against us as full citizens of the United States,” said Merrill.

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