http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/26/BAG46ED6N11.DTL&feed=rss.news
"A revived bill to allow same-sex marriage is headed for the Senate floor early next week after clearing the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday...AB849 would make marriage as defined by law gender neutral by taking out the notion that marriage is between a man and a woman."- Lynda Gledhill, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau, Aug. 26, 2005