The Pentagon’s 1994 plan to devise a “gay bomb” is making new headlines.
The DOD requested $7.5 million over six years to develop the “weapon,” which they hoped would chemically alter straight enemy troops so they would become attracted to each other. Theoretically, the hostiles would become distracted by their new relationships and stop paying attention to blowing us up. Later, morale would suffer as Joe breaks up with Jim, and Jim’s friends all tell him he’s so much better off because everyone knows Joe is jerk. Then one of them starts going out with Joe. And so forth.
The official line is that almost as quickly as the idea was hatched, it was scuttled. But the Sunshine Project, which monitors such hair-brained Defense Department activity via the Freedom of Information Act, says that ain’t so.
[Sunshine Project Director Edward Hammond] went on to state that the Joint Non-lethal Weapons Directorate, based out of Quantico, actually used the “gay-bomb” idea as a marketing tool in a CD-ROM from 2001-2002 and that “the Pentagon… submitted it to the highest scientific review body in the country.”
More significant than whether the Pentagon has really abandoned the plan is what their research proves: sexual orientation is biologically determined — not a lifestyle choice. That fact could blow up more Republican and Christian right fund raising campaigns than the best placed bomb, gay or otherwise.
Throw down your feather boas!! We’ve got you surrounded!!
So, if this so-called “gay-bomb” was deployed, turning heteros into homos, would it also have the opposite effect?
Turning homos into heteros?
If so, look for a massive bombing campaign of San Francisco by the Christian “Reich-Wing” fundies to begin as soon as they line up some FBI(Faith Based Initiatve) funding.
I suspect that Bush tested the weapon on Mexico’s VincenteFox with mixed results since it seems they had a lover’s disagreement and it is definitely not working on Putin, even though Bush saw his ‘soul.’ The only evidence to support this is that of our President.