Investigator Bessel Mangols alerts us to what he or she describes as “a wonderfully perplexing news report, with an equally perplexing photo, about the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize, I think.” The report is from Interfax, dated October 9, 2007. Here are excerpts:
Orthodox human rights activist: gay-parades should be equated with weapons of mass destruction
Moscow, October 9, Interfax – Roman Silantyev, director the World Russian People?s Council?s human rights center, compared gay-parades to weapons of mass destruction.
This comparison was prompted by the award given recently to the developers of a project for a ?gay bomb?, a hormone weapon which turns an enemy?s troops into homosexuals. The authors were awarded the ?peace prize? given by the so-called Shnobel Prize for the most dubious scientific achievements.
According to the project authors, special pheromones contained in a ?gay bomb? dropped on an enemy?s territory would radically raise soldiers? sexual attraction to each other…
[Patriarch Alexy] told the agency that all structures concerned ?should pay attention to the American know-how and consider ranking gay-parades among weapons of mass destruction with a consequent introduction of moratorium on its proliferation?.