Same-sex couple in tax protest
Refuse to pay on $2 million because they can't get married
Posted: January 31, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern

Calling it an act of civil disobedience, a North Carolina man is refusing to pay federal and state income tax on more than $2 million, claiming discrimination because he can't wed his male partner and receive the deductions granted married couples.

"I think it's unfair because marriage is about love, it's not about two people who are different sexually," Charles Merrill, 71, told WND. "Two men can love each other, and two men can love each other just as a man and a woman."

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