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The Diamondback reports today:

For faculty looking to gain the right to collect health and tuition remission benefits for their gay or lesbian partners, the fight became all the more urgent Tuesday.

Maryland's highest court upheld the state's 34-year-old statute defining marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman. And, unless the state legislature decides to reverse the ban on gay marriage in the future, the decision leaves partner benefits the only foreseeable option for those seeking the same rights extended to spouses of university faculty.

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