Queer News From Virginia. Yes, Virginia.
Rev. Jerry Falwell claims that the domain name www.fallwell.com borders on theft and is confusing to those looking for his website. Too bad he doesn’t know how to read. If he did, he’d be able to read this:
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From TimesDispatch.com:
RICHMOND, Va. – A Web site critical of the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s views on homosexuality engages in constitutionally protected noncommercial speech and should be allowed to keep the domain name fallwell.com, a lawyer for the site’s owner told a federal appeals court Thursday.
Paul Levy, an attorney for Christopher Lamparello of New York, urged a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a judge’s ruling that Lamparello violated federal trademark law by using a common misspelling of Falwell as a domain name.
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Today’s somewhat daily quote is taken from fallwell.com.
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
. . . Susan B. Anthony
Thanks to Sue for passing the news on.
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