According to Fox News, the family of a late classmate whom Mitt Romney allegedly bullied in high school said Friday that the portrayal of their brother in news media reports is "factually incorrect" and that they are "aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda." The family also said in a public statement they wouldn't comment on this any further. A Washington Post story Thursday stated that Romney and at least one other high school classmate had held down John Lauber, who was presumed to be a homosexual, and cut off his long, bleached-blond hair. Christine Lauber, his older sister, later told ABC News she was in college while her brother and Romney attended high school at the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield, Michigan. Romney has apologized for what he calls pranks and "hijinks" during his school. Romney told Fox News Radio that he doesn't recall that incident, which was supposedly to have occurred around 1965, and he didn't know that the student was gay. Romney also said he certainly didn't believe he thought that individual was homosexual--definitely not back in the 60's. John Lauber reportedly died of liver cancer around 2004. Christine Lauber said she believed her brother would've been furious if he had heard that story.
I personally believe this particular story was fabricated to begin with. It's a means for the Obama media machine to find something to smear Romney with. The left are trying to use this "fabricated" incident to portray Romney as "anti-gay" or "homophobic". Back in the 1960's, society as a whole didn't have their mind on sodomy. Homosexuality wasn't part of a person's daily vocabulary at that time. Sodomy probably wasn't in the news back in 1965 any, if at all. Back then homosexuals weren't parading around protesting across America demanding their rights to be recognized as gays. You can thank the news media and President Bill Clinton starting in 1992 for making sodomy a major part in the daily newspapers. There isn't a day that goes by that you won't read something about homosexuals in the news. It wasn't that way around 1965. Somebody from the Washington Post evidently had a politicial agenda against Romney to write that post.
Another thing I find unusual about that story is I don't believe young boys or men in America had long hair in 1965. There might be a few examples, but it wasn't customary for guys to have long hair at that time. It was through the Beatles that resulted in young men growing long hair. This story sounds ludicrous.
Click on the above link from FoxNews.com to read the full story.
Especially in a private school-would they have long hair? I don't think so.
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