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Romney rues bullying as teen

Offers apology for ‘dumb things’ reported in Post

By Callum Borchers

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 10, 2012

A day after President Obama became the first holder of the Oval Office to endorse same-sex marriage, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney is being accused of bullying a student believed to be gay during the 1960s. The Washington Post -- citing five of Romney’s fellow students at the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. -- reported Thursday that Romney led a posse that pinned down another boy while Romney, himself, cut the boy’s bleached-blond hair, which usually draped over one eye.

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