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Pastor Louis Giglio has reportedly removed himself from giving the benediction at President Obama's second inauguration. Apparently, reports that were uncovered on Wednesday detailing Giglio's homophobic history were enough to send him packing.

Check out his letter of resignation and the Presidential Inaugural Committee's response after the jump!

Following allegations from a new accuser, Kevin Clash, the voice behind Sesame Street's Elmo, has resigned from the children's show. Details follow. 

The blog that brought Chris Kluwe into the heart of the LGBT fight for equality and gave us such unforgettable hits as "lustful cockmonster" will lose out on "six figure page visits" per week after the hunky hero put in his resignation. Details follow. 

Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin has gone all ladyfingers Carrie Prejean ever since Miss USA winner Olivia Culpo took the title tiara after coming out in support of transgender contestants.

While throwing a transphobic tantrum, Sheena announced she's had enough of the Miss USA organization (but later sidestepped that excuse to say she's resigning due to the event "being rigged"). 

Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney’s recently appointed Foreign Policy and National Security spokeman, has resigned after being on the receiving end of a wave of uproar from anti-gay conservatives.

More after the jump.

A Board Member of the Ohio River Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America has resigned in protest of the organization's anti-gay firing of lesbian den leader Jen Tyrrell. Details follow. 

Wow. This is a new low, even for the usual gravity-defying standards of anti-gay religious zealots.

Dorothy Bond, the now-former principal at Tennessee's Haywood High School, has resigned from her position after drawing deserved ire for threatening to expel her gay students. Details follow. 

Daniel Avila, author of the inflamatory story published in The Pilot that blamed Satan for the gay community, has apologized and resigned from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops following the pulling of the article by the publication. Details follow.

Peter Vidmar, the homophobic Prop 8 activist who was appointed as the U.S. Olympic teams liason to London 2012, has resigned over the controversy that followed his  appointment. Details after the jump.

Wow, quite the shocker today coming from the National Organization for Marriage, where Louis Marinelli—the (reformed?) anti-gay activist behind NOM's deplorable 'Summer of Marriage' bus tour—has not only resigned from the homophobic organization, but has come out in favor of marriage equality! Story after the jump.