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Following today’s conclusion of the Joint Chiefs’ testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the White House hosted an off-the-record meeting with members of various DADT pro-repeal groups. Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly that today’s was the largest of several such recent meetings. Two people who attended the meeting but asked to remain anonymous because of the off-the-record nature …

An 26 year-old veteran who lost both his legs in Iraq has been charged with stalking members of the Westboro Baptist Church after police found him following the Westboro family van in a car stocked with handguns, a rifle, and dozens of rounds of ammunition. Sedgwick County sheriff’s detectives arrested Newell mid-morning Tuesday in the Wichita City Hall parking lot …

Over at the Wonk Room, Igor Volsky reports on a tactic taken today by Sen. Mark Udall. Several of the top military brass testifying today indicated that they were hesitant to institute the repeal in a time of war. Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) — a strong proponent of repeal — said that the amendment included in the National Defense Authorization …

Gothamist tips us to the latest atheism campaign which just launched on Chicago’s public transit system. This one is from the Illini Secular Student Association at the University of Illinois. ISSA explains, “A consequence of the centuries-spanning PR campaign conflating theism (and especially Christianity) with the impulse to charity has largely duped Americans into believing that Christians are the major …

The Human Rights Campaign recaps today’s hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, where all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke at length about the repeal of DADT. Speaking today before a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Chiefs of the military services all expressed that they would successfully implement “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal should Congress …

According to Lauren Smiley’s cover story in the latest issue of SF Weekly, some locals aren’t taking too well to the recent mini-explosion of nude men strolling around the Castro. Nudity, per se, isn’t illegal in San Francisco, but even lots of gay men don’t like running into twigs and berries while doing their shopping. It’s a long feature story, …

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Equality California executive director Geoff Kors revealed today that he’ll be leaving the organization this spring. EQCA spearheaded the unsuccessful attempt to defeat Proposition 8 in 2008. Seth Hemmelgarn at Bay Area Reporter: Kors, who has been EQCA’s only executive director since it was created in 1998, announced this morning (Friday, December 3) that he’s resigning from the group, effective …