GLBT

Ben Smith has the details:
The White House, I’m told, will today announce that it’s filling the key Pentagon slot for the implementation — or repeal — of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which bars open gays and lesbians from serving in the military.
The appointment of retired Marine General Clifford Stanley as Under Secretary of Defense for [...]

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has brought 52 fellow Republicans together on a letter demanding the resignation of Kevin Jennings, the White House’s “safe schools czar.” Greg Sargent looks at the text of the letter, and how it maintains (wrongly) that Jennings covered up child sexual abuse. Here are the other Republicans:

Looks like today’s poll showing a slump in support for Maine’s Question 1 has rattled the National Organization for Marriage, which sent out an APB to its mailing list asking for funds.
“Never before have voters had the chance to directly overturn the legislative enactment of same-sex marriage in any state in the country,” says NOM [...]

Buried in this poll on Maine political attitudes is a question on the Nov. 3 same-sex marriage referendum that does not auger well for gay marriage opponents. Question 1, which would roll back legal gay marriage in the state, is trailing 52-43. Catholic voters support the measure, but only by a seven-point margin. Last month, [...]

I spent a few minutes talking with Maggie Gallagher, the president of the National Organization for Marriage, after she gave a rip-roaring introduction for Carrie Prejean at the Values Voter Summit. First, however, she expressed some disappointment that TWI wasn’t a gay publication.
“I love the gay press,” said Gallagher. “I really am impressed with gay [...]

I’m at the 4th Annual Values Voter Summit, the Focus on the Family-sponsored conference which is incredibly heavy on Republican stars — Pence, Huckabee, Cantor, McConnell, Bachmann. But the star of the morning session was Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California who lost the Miss America crown after a pageant judge asked her whether she [...]

The Family Research Council is taking aim at the guy they hope will be “the next Van Jones” in their latest action alert. It’s apparently Kevin Jennings, who was appointed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan to head the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (and who has been included among the list of “czars”). His [...]

Several House Democrats will introduce legislation next week to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, The Advocate reported yesterday.
The bill, sponsored by Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) Jared Polis (D-Col.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), already has the support of more than 50 [...]

Our colleagues at The Iowa Independent have been all over the race for a state legislative seat that the National Organization for Marriage, the headline-grabbing anti-gay marriage group, had tried to turn into a referendum on the state’s legalization of same-sex unions. It was a squeaker, but Democrat Curt Hanson beat Republican Stephen Burgmeier by [...]

Carrie Prejean, the Miss California USA contestant who lost the Miss USA crown after saying she was opposed to gay marriage, is filing a lawsuit against the pageant (in California) for “libel, public disclosure of private facts, religious discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.” From her lawyers:
We will make [...]