Speaking to the Washington Post, former students at Michigan’s Cranbrook School say Romney became incensed after seeing another student, John Lauber, with bleached-blond hair. According to their account, Romney and other classmates tackled Lauber to the ground, then forcefully cut off his hair with a pair of scissors. Speaking to Fox News, Romney said he could not recall the 1965 incident and initially laughed when confronted with the details. He then offered a conditional apology. —- And the Republican primary electorate that chooses the presidential nominee of that party is about as far removed from the Massachusetts general election electorate as you can imagine. Very staunch, anti-gay activists play a disproportionate role in that Republican primary process. So, the political imperatives of getting Romney elected went into reverse. Now he had to prove that he was a defender of so-called “traditional values” and an opponent of anything that could be labeled homosexual recruitment or promotion of homosexuality in schools. And the religious right, the religious extremists who involve themselves in politics, view anti-bullying efforts that include or mention LGBT people as encouraging students to take up a homosexual lifestyle. Eliminating bullying, supposedly, turns people gay.