61.  President Clinton has angered gay groups by promising to sign the bill, but this has denied Bob Dole and other Republican candidates a campaign issue.

62.  Republicans like Hurley also obfuscate the intentions of gay groups, as demonstrated in a bill he introduced last year.

63.  Robertson said that by allowing gay groups to come to Disney World, Disney and the city of Orlando are risking divine retribution.

64.  She was also honored by the Log Cabin Society, a gay Republican group, for consoling AIDS patients and their families.

65.  So vicious, in fact, that gay groups might want to reconsider their campaign to stop her TV show.

66.  Soon thereafter, a gay group asked then-editor Dave Burgin why the paper had no gay columnist.

67.  Sure, she said gamely, apparently not realizing that many Democrats boycott the parade because it excludes gay groups.

68.  The ACLU represented the Klan and the gay group.

69.  The AIDS epidemic dramatically changed that as gay groups, disgusted with neglect, aggressively demanded attention and recognition.

70.  The apology comes at a specifically trying time for Schlessinger, when the appeasement of gay groups could do her some good.