Ravitch Leaves Bush Campaign Over Log Cabin Stance

By David J. Hoff

A prominent education adviser has left Gov. George W. Bush's presidential campaign team because of the candidate's unwillingness to meet with a group that represents gay Republicans.

Diane Ravitch said she resigned because of the Texas governor's statement in a Nov. 21 television interview indicating that he would not sit down with the Log Cabin Republicans, a Washington-based group that urges the GOP to address issues that concern the party's gay and lesbian members.

"It was something I found to be intolerable," Ms. Ravitch, a top education appointee in the administration of President George Bush, the governor's father, said in an interview last week. "I believe in an...