21.   Conservative state lawmakers are quietly preparing legislation that would ban gay groups from high school and university campuses and make sodomy a felony.

22.   During both a televised debate and a subsequent news conference, Bush derisively suggested that McCain had won the support of the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay group.

23.   Earlier in the campaign, Fong picked up the endorsement of the Log Cabin Republicans, a conservative gay group.

24.   Distressing reports from gay groups indicate that young people are increasingly indulging in unprotected promiscuity.

25.   Dole ducked into the car and away from the question about the freshly stirred fuss over the contribution from the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay group.

26.   Endorsing Bush was not a given for the gay GOP group.

27.   Even with support from the Washington State PTA, the gay Puget Sound group is braced for controversy as the school year starts.

28.   Finally, Bush said he now would meet with a group of Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group.

29.   Falwell, in turn, said he had been a target of aggressive, threatening language, some of it from gay groups.

30.   For all their softened rhetoric on homosexuality, Republican presidential candidates remain opposed to virtually every piece of legislation important to gay groups.