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All kinds of really great stuff coming out of the Values Voter Summit, but some it is actual good LGBT news. From Nate Silver:

It’s Mike Huckabee’s win in the presidential straw poll at this past week’s Value Voters’ summit that’s drawing the headlines. But this is every bit as interesting:

Abortion ranked first among issues of concern to straw-poll voters, getting 41 percent of the vote, with protection of religious liberty second with 18 percent.

Opposition to same-sex marriage was third at 7 percent.

Emphasis is mine. These are not the tea-partiers, who have a libertarian bent. This is a forum, rather, sponsored by the Family Research Council, an organization which continues to insist that homosexuality is curable and to link it to pedophilia. But the actual attendees at the forum — religious conservative activists from around the country — just don’t seem to be all that riled up about the prospect of two men getting married.

This is not to suggest that these voters have become pro-gay marriage . . . But the last time this poll was conducted, in October 2007, gay marriage was the top choice of 20 percent of the attendees. That’s quite a decline, particularly given that gay marriage has been more in the news than abortion for the past couple of years.

Ooooh, Family Research Council’s head anti-LGBTer Tony Perkins is gonna be pissed! So is Carrie Prejean, who, during her Values Voter Summit speech, said God chose her to be intolerant of marriage equality.

In case you missed it, watch Carrie’s proclamation of divine intervention.