reparative therapy with the national association for research and therapy of homosexuality. otherwise known as narth. therapy to change sexual orientation is used for decades to turn potentially gay children straight. every day i hear this is a choice. this can be fixed. reporter: did you believe that? i never believed that. i know i m gay just like i know i m half and half hispanic and never thought the facts would change. part of my identity. so the parallel would be, sending me to tall camp and saying, if you try really hard, one day you can be 6 1 . reporter: ryan says he was treated by a clinical psychologist who today is still associated with narth. the constant refrain is religious one. this is something that makes god cry. that this is something your family doesn t want for you. reporter: at his office outside los angeles, we asked him if he remembered treating ryan kendall 14 years earl yerl.
five of romney s classmates told the washington post what they remembered about a day in 1965, a day that, quote, they came upon lauber tackled him and pinned him to the ground. lauber, his eyes filling with tears, skraemd for help and romney clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. the washington post posted it online ahead of today s printed edition. we did not talk about it last night on this program because we had questions about how valid it is to bring up something someone did nearly 50 years ago when they were in high school. those questions, though have not gone away. so we ll let you decide for yourself tonight whether this story itself is relevant to a presidential campaign or not. what we want to focus on is romney s response to the story. we heard what he said in north carolina today, aapologizing, quote, if anyone feels they were offended, but on fox news yesterday, romney said more, including response to accusations the incident amounted to gay bullying since t
they were offended by that, i certainly apologize for that. well, the stupid thing in question, the one getting all the attention, concerns a student at the michigan prep school romney attended. a student named john lauber who was reportedly relentlessly teased for his presumed homosexuality and for having long bleach blond hair. five of romney s classmates told the washington post what they remembered about a day in 1965, a day that, quote, they came upon lauber tackled him and pinned him to the ground. lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help and romney clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. the story broke yesterday when the washington post posted it online ahead of today s printed edition. we did not talk about it last night on this program because we had questions about how valid it is to bring up something someone did nearly 50 years ago when they were in high school. those questions, though have not gone away. so we ll let you decide for yourself
the way back to his teenage years, that got the headlines. it is today s front page, the washington post. romney s pranks could go too far. an article that paints a young mitt romney as remembered by his classmates as something of a bully. romney was asked about it in north carolina today. well, i think i was one who did some stupid things in high school, and if anyone feels that they were offended by that, i certainly apologize for that. well, the stupid thing in question, the one getting all the attention, concerns a student at the michigan prep school romney attended. a student named john lauber who was reportedly relentlessly teased for his presumed homosexuality and for having long bleach blond hair. five of romney s classmates told the washington post what they remembered about a day in 1965, a day that, quote, they came upon lauber tackled him and pinned him to the ground. lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help and romney clipped his hair with a
well, i think i was one who did some stupid things in high school, and if anyone feels that they were offended by that, i certainly apologize for that. well, the stupid thing in question, the one getting all the attention, concerns a student at the michigan prep school romney attended. a student named john lauber who was reportedly relentlessly teased for his presumed homosexuality and for having long bleach blond hair. five of romney s classmates told the washington post what they remembered about a day in 1965, a day that, quote, they came upon lauber tackled him and pinned him to the ground. lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help and romney clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. the story broke yesterday when the washington post posted it online ahead of today s printed edition. we did not talk about it last night on this program because we had questions about how valid it is to bring up something someone did nearly 50 years ago when they were in