The Hill reports:

The nation’s largest Republican gay-rights organization is still weighing whether to sit out the 2004 presidential campaign and not endorse President Bush.

Log Cabin Republicans’ political director Chris Barron said the group will wait until after the Republican convention in August to decide whether to endorse Bush based on the party’s stance on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Bush said earlier this year that he would support such a ban.

The organization endorsed and raised $500,000 for Bush in 2000 and supported Bob Dole in 1996, the first time it endorsed a presidential candidate.

Patrick Guerriero, the Log Cabin Republicans’ executive director, said he is “disappointed and truly angered” over Bush’s position, which has caused the group’s membership to double to more than 10,000 in recent months. But Barron ruled out the possibility of endorsing Kerry, saying the group will endorse Bush or no one this fall.

The 27-year-old group is planning to hold a “big tent” reception honoring politicians who support gay rights just before the Republican convention begins in New York on Aug. 29 from 2 to 5 p.m. in Bryant Park. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is hosting the event; Govs. George Pataki (N.Y.) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Calif.), as well as former Govs. Bill Weld (Mass.) and Christine Todd Whitman (N.J.), are invited. A New York Times event discussing the group’s role in the upcoming elections will be held on Aug. 27 at the New School.