Joshua of shoemakerjones.org fame, where are you? what's happened to your website?
Shwa, if you're reading this, contact me. You've got my email address.
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Business Week says
For months, rumors have swirled around the Web alleging that Microsoft helped finance a small Utah software company's suit against IBM and two corporations that use Linux software. BusinessWeek has learned that Microsoft did not put up the money, but did play matchmaker for SCO Group and BayStar Capital, a San Francisco hedge fund which made a $50 million investment in SCO last October.Lawrence Goldfarb, managing partner of BayStar, says that senior executives at the software giant had telephoned him about two months before the investment. Would he be interested in investing in SCO, they asked? Goldfarb wouldn't identify the executives, but says neither Chairman William Gates nor CEO Steve Ballmer were among them. He says Microsoft didn't put any money into BayStar or the SCO investment. A Microsoft spokesman says that the company has no "direct or indirect" financial relations with BayStar, but declined to comment when asked whether execs called BayStar to suggest investing in SCO.
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You might recognize one of those names. David Knight is the gay son of Senator William J. "Pete" Knight. David and Joseph have been partners for 10 years.
SF Gate.com (Thanks Richard for the link!)
BOSTON - Massachusetts lawmakers Thursday gave preliminary approval to a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage but allow civil unions.The amendment, which would strip gay couples of their court-granted marriage rights, must still weather several additional votes and anticipated legislative maneuvering by opponents.
The earliest a ban could end up on a statewide ballot is November 2006, more than two years after same-sex couples can start getting married in Massachusetts.
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We all knew it was coming, although it is rather disheartening to actually see it in print.
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ordered an immediate halt to same-sex marriages in San Francisco and said Thursday that it would hear a case in May or June on the legality of such ceremonies.The action by California’s highest court came two weeks after state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and a conservative group asked the seven justices to immediately block the same-sex marriages, with more than 3,700 gay and lesbian couples having wed at San Francisco City Hall so far.
Teary-eyed couples were quickly turned away at City Hall.
“We were filling out the application, and they told us to stop,” said Art Adams, who was the first to be denied as he and his partner, Devin Baker, sought a license. “It’s heartbreaking. I don’t understand why two people in love should be prevented from expressing it.”
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Pause rather than stop’
“They restored order to chaos in San Francisco,” said Joshua Carden, an attorney with the conservative Alliance Defense Fund.Newsom’s spokesman, Peter Ragone, said the city would comply with the ruling as soon as officials received the order.
Jon Davidson, an attorney for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay rights legal aid group, said the ruling simply put the issue on hold for now.
“The court has put everything on pause rather than stop,” he said. “They are saying that until we hear this, you are on pause.”
Had the court declined to intervene, the legal battle over same-sex marriage in California would have taken years as lawsuits traveled through the state’s lower courts.
from MSNBC (thanks to my boyfriend Scott for the link)
from Yahoo!
President Bush on Thursday sought to solidify his standing with evangelical Christians by restating support for a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage as part of his championship of conservative causes."I will defend the sanctity of marriage against activist courts and local officials who want to redefine marriage. The union of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution," Bush, himself a born-again Christian, told the National Association of Evangelicals Convention in Colorado via satellite from the White House.
"I support a constitutional amendment to protect marriage as the union of a man and a woman," Bush said.
The president has largely steered clear of the thorny political issue since announcing his support for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage on Feb. 24.
Bush seized on the issue after legal developments in San Francisco, where thousands of marriage licenses have been issued to gays and lesbians, and in Massachusetts, where the state's highest court ruled gay couples had the right to wed.
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Update to Log Cabin Republicans challenge Bush on marriage
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