Savannah Guthrie and Chuck Todd wasted no time on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown this morning before pressing Obama’s senior advisor David Axelrod to explain the White House’s reaction to a federal court decision striking down California’s same-sex marriage ban. “I think the American public could be forgiven if they’re a little confused about where the president stands on all of this,” Guthrie said, laying out Obama’s opposition to same-sex marriage and perceived ambivalence in criticizing Prop 8.

After a federal judge in California struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage because it was unconstitutional, the cable shows went on high-alert covering the decision by Judge Vaughn Walker by talking to everyone from the lawyers involved in the case to Sarah Palin.

Andrew Sullivan’s blog at The Atlantic is adding a major name to the masthead with news that Conor Friedersdorf is joining the blog as a “senior editor.” In addition to Friedersdorf, Sullivan is adding a new staffer–Zoe Pollock–to focus on behinds-the-scene work and to some “underblogging.”

The publisher of the Advocate and Out magazines–Here Media–has sent a letter threatening legal action to a former employee of its skin magazines for making negative comments about the company on his Facebook page.

The Washington Post may be ignoring Salon’s stories on the Arlington Cemetery mismanagement saga, but they will have a hard time ignoring Joan Walsh who launched a Twitter attack last night to air her grievances over WaPo’s alleged snub.

Defying the advice that it’s better to look for a job while employed, David Weigel is adding Slate to his growing list of jobs after resigning from the Washington Post at the beginning of the Journolist scandal.

In addition to his already announced work for MSNBC, Weigel is now under a one-year contact with WaPo’s corporate sibling Slate to be a political reporter and start a new politics blog, The Upshot’s Michael Calderone is reporting and Weigel confirmed in a tweet.

It was race relations Sunday on the morning network shows where, yet again, the screens were filled with lone African American panelists talking about race with a lot of white folks. In a variation on Rachel Sklar’s recent analysis on the Bechdel Test for the Media, the rare instances where African American panelists did appear together on Sunday morning, they were talking about race.

The Washington Post should have covered the New Black Panther Party intimidation story earlier and alleged lack of staff on the National desk can’t be blamed for the oversight, WaPo managing editor Raju Narisetti said today in a chat with readers.

Coming to the defense of Ombudsman Andrew Alexander, who chastised the paper for not covering the story, Narisetti said the story should have gotten covered and that staffing shouldn’t be an excuse for missing the story.

When Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation took over Beliefnet in 2007, some feared that the site known for its ecumenical approach to religion and faith would turn into a Fox News-styled mouthpiece for social and religious conservatives. With the storied site now sold and some people writing its obituary, it appears that Beliefnet was harmed not by becoming Fox, but instead by becoming too much like O, the Oprah Magazine full of self-help columns and vague spirituality.

Peggy Noonan has decided there aren’t enough adults in charge and that we need old men (I guess old women wouldn’t be of any help). Waxing nostalgic on the anniversary of the publishing of To Kill a Mockingbird, she’s decided that we need Atticus Finch to lead us through life and that he could be personified in, wait for it, former Republican National Committee chair and current Mississippi governor Haley Barbour.

Andrés Duque–known to his Twitter and blog followers as Blabbeando–knew he was probably tweeting too much about the gay marriage vote in Argentina when Twitter cut him after only about three hours of translating the debate in the Argentina Senate.

Bill O’Reilly acted shocked to discover tonight on The O’Reilly Factor that if a state wants to permit marriage to a duck or a goat, the U.S. Constitution doesn’t have an ability for the federal government to intervene in state law.

Judy Garland is a “gay icon.” Her daughter Liza Minnelli also counts. Toss in Bette Midler and Madonna and Lady Gaga. You could probably even include Christiano Rinaldo and David Beckham as “gay icons,” of a sort. But it’s fair to say that a conservative member of Congress who is opposed to gay rights probably isn’t a “gay icon,” even if the gays find him attractive.

After a meeting with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, NBC announced that it would permit same-sex couples to participate in the “Modern Love’ wedding contest on Today and extended the deadline for the contest until Monday, July 12. The news was first reported by TVNewser.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s feud with the Today show over a wedding contest that excludes same-sex couples may be on the mend as Today’s executive producer Jim Bell will sit down today with GLAAD to hash out concerns overs the contest, according to a GLAAD blog post and confirmed by NBC, via Twitter

The Maui Time, an alternative weekly on Maui, now knows the cover of its next edition as Governor Linda Lingle vetoes a bill approved by the legislature that would have permitted civil unions for same-sex couples.  In an afternoon news conference, Lingle announced that is was a “mistake to allow a decision of this magnitude [...]

The Today show’s “Modern Love” casting call for couples to compete for a Today-sponsored wedding isn’t quite modern enough for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation since the morning show is refusing to consider same-sex couples.

In the wake of the Dave Weigel controversy at the Washington Post, the paper’s ombudsman Andrew Alexander admits there are numerous instances of reporters, bloggers, and “contributing editors” offering their opinions under the WaPo brand but few knew that guidelines even existed on proper conduct.

The reporter who went undercover at a Catholic support group for gay men and outed a controversial, anti-gay Lutheran minister broke his silence in a letter to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune saying his behavior was justified and that his critics, including me, were unfair. John Townsend, a writer for the LGBT magazine Lavender in Minnesota, has [...]

Proof that a little queer theory can be a dangerous thing in the wrong hands: Fox’s Mike Huckabee went on Fox News Sunday to defend his use of the phrase “ick factor” when talking about gays and same-sex marriage in the New Yorker.

As the controversy over Dave Weigel’s resignation from the Washington Post unfolds, the people at the center of the Weigel storm are Betsy Rothstein and Matt Dornic, two media bloggers for Mediabistro’s FishbowlDC who launched the beginning of Weigel’s end.

Under fire for leaked emails from Journolist critical of conservative publications and activists, The Washington Post‘s Dave Weigel has resigned as a blogger. The paper confirmed to Mediaite that he offered his resignation this morning and they accepted.

The Washington Post’s David Weigel has issued an apology after e-mails he wrote on the liberal journalist listserv Journolist were leaked to FishbowlDC gossip blogger Betsy Rothstein.

The Village Voice’s annual Queer issue is out today and the boys from Jersey Shore are on the cover in all their tanned and muscled glory. The New York Post, however, is reporting the guys didn’t know that they were being asked to grace the annual issue that coincides with New York’s gay pride.

Congressman Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) has acknowledged that his turquoise–or was it teal–web belt may have been too much after a picture of him attending a summer party went viral.

The Republican Congressman tweeted “Never thought a pic of me w/ my shirt on would go viral. Learned my lesson and burned the belt” after a weekend of tittering tweets about the sexy Congressman who looked like he was headed to Fire Island instead of his hometown, Peoria, Ill.