Ever since Harvey Milk showed up on the scene and announced that gay men and women needed to come out, more and more gay men and lesbians have come out. I remember the old chant ... "We're here, we're queer, get used to it!" So, we've come out in large numbers and announced that we are proud of who we are. Well, this is just a little bit too much for far-right religious conservatives. To them, it must seem as though gay people are just
running rampant all over the nation. OMG! Look over there! Everywhere you turn, there is another gay person! How did that happen?! Well, one wingnut has a theory about it.
From Right Wing Watch:
Yesterday on “Washington Watch,” the Family Research Council’s Craig James fielded a call from a listener who wondered if the Pentagon had secretly used a “gay bomb” on America, leading to a rise in the number of openly gay people in the country today.
The caller noted that his theory — loosely based on an actual 1994 proposal floated by Air Force scientists for a “hormone bomb” that could “turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting" - sounded "off in left field.” But he just had to ask if “some of those same techniques got used on the American people.”
James said he never heard of the “gay bomb” and agreed that it’s “out there for sure,” hastening to add that he believes the real reason America is even debating topics like homosexuality is because “we’ve moved away from God’s word in the Bible.”
From
Wikipedia:
The "halitosis bomb" and "gay bomb" are informal names for two theoretical non-lethal chemical weapons that a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing; the theories involve discharging female sex pheromones over enemy forces in order to make them sexually attracted to each other.
Update 1:
DrTerwilliker has found this video to explain it all to us (via Fox News):