Top Mitt Romney strategist Stuart Stevens has made it clear that the policies espoused by the Republican party and the Romney campaign were ultimately what cost them the election. 

While some within the party are attributing the GOP's loss to the "technological gap" (i.e. the Republicans weren't Tweeting enough), Stevens thinks its much simpler. 

You can't win young people when you're fighing against issues that matter to them, like marriage equality and contraception.

More after the jump.

The National Geographic Channel, which is set to air the new Are You Tougher Than A Boy Scout series this spring, has been asked to denounce the BSA's anti-gay policies ahead of the show. 

According to a just-released press statement, the Boy Scouts of America has lost funding from the Merck Foundation over its anti-gay policies. Merck joins the UPS and Intel in pulling funding from the BSA for discriminating against LGBT troops and leaders. Check out what Merck has to say about the move after the jump. 

UPS announced Monday afternoon that it will no longer provide grants to the Boy Scouts of America because of the group's discriminatory policies barring gays from openly serving as troops or leaders. 

Fresh of the heels of success in his pursuit to have Intel stop donating to the Boy Scouts of America, Zach Wahls has moved on to the next case: UPS. 

Just in case there was any confusion, Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy wants to make sure you know the company is definitely still anti-gay.

Check out his statement in which he minces no words about the status of Chick-fil-A's policy after the jump. 

Well that was fast!

Intel has no interest in being associated with hate and has announced that they will cease all future funding to the Boy Scouts of America until gay Scouts and leaders are welcome within the organization.

Boom. See what Intel had to say after the jump.

North Dakota's The Fargo Forum has refused to print the wedding announcement of a same-sex couple heading to New York to tie the knot. But it will return the $25 publication fee, surely making Allison Johnson and her fiance feel much better about the situation. 

(Details follow.)

More and more individuals are calling out the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) on their bigoted policies.

Former Eagle Scout Naka Nathaniel recently renounced his rank until the BSA ends its ban on gay scouts and LGBT leaders.

Nathaniel says, “I really felt so disappointed that in the past 20 years, since I earned my Eagle Scout rank, that Scouting has turned back on people it should be openly embracing."

Check out his interview MSNBC's Thomas Roberts after the jump!

With poll numbers neck and neck, attack ads turning up the volume and a multi-billionaire committed to donating up to $100 million to ensure Romney gets elected, there's never been a better time to compare the LGBT positions of President Obama with those of his likely GOP opponent. Luckily, eQualityGiving has done all the leg work for us with a nifty chart!

Customs lines for folks entering the United States was just another source of discrimination against same-sex couples. But the inequity might soon be a thing of the past as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announces a proposal to change its policy on the way it processes families through customs. Details follow.

Arriving in the St. Nick of time to ensure that holiday shopping dollars from the gAyTM are spent at LGBT-supportive companies is the HRC's 2012 Corporate Equality Index. So, which corporations have earned our patronage?