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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Justin Rohrlich

Cemetery refused to bury gay spouse in family plot, husband claims

A grieving widower claims a Long Island, New York cemetery refused to lay his husband to rest in the family plot because he was gay - (Google Street View)

A suburban New York cemetery blocked a grieving widower from burying his husband in their chosen gravesite because he was gay, alleges a heartbreaking legal filing obtained by The Independent.

Mark Goldberg’s family owns five burial plots at New Montefiore Cemetery, the middle two of which are presently unoccupied, according to a summons served late last month on the Jewish graveyard in Babylon, Long Island.

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