Surviving spouse in landmark gay marriage case dies; faced another recent Arkansas indignity

The Dallas Voice brings news of the death over the weekend of Jay Haskins-Stone who won a landmark court case to be listed on the Texas death certificate of his spouse, Arkansas native James Stone-Hoskins.

The request for equity took a court battle in which the attorney general of Texas was asked to show why he shouldn't be held in contempt for refusing the recognize the couple's New Mexico marriage license after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibited state bans on same-sex marriage.

We've written about the couple before, particularly the unfriendly treatment Haskins-Stone encountered when his spouse died. They were denied use of a rural church in Baxter County and given a "sympathy" card that included anti-gay messages.

We had been planning to talk more with Jay Haskins-Stone, who wrote the following note to me a few days ago.

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