The Pentagon and the gay bomb.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

On the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch, host Craig James took a call from a listener who asked him if it was possible that the Pentagon had secretly used a “gay bomb” on America, leading to a rise in the number of openly gay people in the country, reports Right Wing Watch. 

According to the caller, identified as “Tom,” if you Google “Pentagon gay bomb” you will discover an article stating that the Pentagon was using “certain chemicals and aphrodisiacs to spray — and to put on the soldiers so they are attracted to other men as a weapon in wartime.” 

“My question is, and I wonder, did some of those techniques get used on the American people? Just a thought,” Tom asked. 

The former NFL running back, turned conservative talk show host, stammered a bit before replying, “I don’t know anything about that. That’s the first I’ve ever heard of it, it sounds kind of out in left field, like you said. It’s out there for sure.”

Damn right it seems kind of "out there."

In fact it seems so ridiculous you would at first think it is some Right Wing conspiracy theory straight from the imagination of Alex Jones. (Who by the way Raw Story links to in this article.)

However if you Google the term "Pentagon gay bomb" you do in fact discover that there really was a proposal to make just such a weapon.

Don't look at me like that, here read it for yourself:  

Documentation obtained by the Sunshine Project, an anti-biological weapons non-governmental organization, found that the Ohio-based Wright Lab requested a 6 year, $7.5 million grant to create a variety of non-lethal weapons. The bluntly titled project, called “Harassing, Annoying and ‘Bad Guy’ Identifying Chemicals” reads like a bawdy proposal penned by a Bond Villian- Auric Goldfinger perhaps? 

It proposed a bomb “that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistibly attractive to one another”. While the laboratory also came up with similarly questionable ideas, such as bad-breath bombs, flatulence bombs and bombs designed to attract swarms of stinging insects to enemy combatants, one has to admit that the gay bomb is certainly the most novel.

Well this is certainly going to convince the Righties that the surge in homosexuals coming out of the closet is the result of some military tampering, and not simply an indication of just how many LGBT folks have been living under oppression for all of these years.

And do you know what? Maybe they have a point.

How else can we explain that pop icon Barry Manilow recently married his "gasp" male business manager?

I mean are we to believe that THIS man has been gay all of these years?

Okay, bad example.

Personally I cannot believe the Pentagon would bomb their own citizens into gayhood....gaydom....gayness? Well you get the drift.

However, it might explain my love of show tunes.