Or, so it would seem, according to some fellow named Jim Rutz writing (what reads like a parody, but isn’t) at WorldNetDaily: A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals
I have nothing against an occasional soy snack. Soy is nutritious and contains lots of good things. Unfortunately, when you eat or drink a lot of soy stuff, you’re also getting substantial quantities of estrogens.Estrogens are female hormones. If you’re a woman, you’re flooding your system with a substance it can’t handle in surplus. If you’re a man, you’re suppressing your masculinity and stimulating your “female side,” physically and mentally.
In fetal development, the default is being female. All humans (even in old age) tend toward femininity. The main thing that keeps men from diverging into the female pattern is testosterone, and testosterone is suppressed by an excess of estrogen.
If you’re a grownup, you’re already developed, and you’re able to fight off some of the damaging effects of soy. Babies aren’t so fortunate. Research is now showing that when you feed your baby soy formula, you’re giving him or her the equivalent of five birth control pills a day. A baby’s endocrine system just can’t cope with that kind of massive assault, so some damage is inevitable. At the extreme, the damage can be fatal.
Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality.
That dreaded soy-based shrinkage is out to getcha!
There was a time when I thought that “homophobia” was a poorly coined term. However, it is clear that there are people who tuly fear homosexuality.
(Also: to read the above makes it sound like people are wasting an awful lot of money on birth control pills).
Seriously, this is just another glaring example of why I find it utterly impossible to take WND seriously. And BTW, Rutz has no scientific training whatsoever (at least none that his website notes). He has degrees in English, works as a writer and one of his bigger career feats (as he lists it) is that he was a very successful Amway distributer at one point in his life (you can’t make this stuff up). His current claim to fame is that he has written quite a bit on the home-church movement.
I would note that there are several ways to actually test Rutz’s theories. For one, testosterone treatment should “cure” homosexuality (in the article he clearly identifies lack of testosterone as the key cause of homosexuality in men–although that raises a question about what causes homosexuality in women). Second, given the demon invasion of soy-based products, there ought to be, if his hypothesis is correct, a radical, empirically measurable, increase in the number of male homosexuals in the population. Third, in cultures which eat a lot of soy, say in East Asia, we should find a substantially higher percentage of male homosexuals than in non-soy consuming populations.
(FYI: Some web-surfing to try and garner some actually information about estrogen and soy and I found the following FAQs via the University of Illinois written by like Ph.D.’s and stuff.)
And this is hy-larious.
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December 12th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
Soy Loco
WorldNetDaily writer Jim Rutz has found the enemy… and it is soy:
There’s a slow poison out there that’s severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it’s a “health food,…
December 13th, 2006 at 10:57 am
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