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Friday, May 20, 2011

WND REVEALS! Soy Is Secret Homosexual Sauce!

Jessica tipped us off to this “WorldNetDaily Exclusive Commentary: A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals.”  Written by Jim Rutz, this shocking exposé of souls in bondage to the soybean pulls no punches:
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,” one of our most popular.
The dangerous food I’m speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they’re all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.
It’s like the flouride in our water, sapping our precious bodily essence!  (“I do not avoid the company of women, Mandrake, but I deny them my soy sauce.”)
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.
This is a very real threat!  It’s also pretty much the plot of Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.
In fetal development, the default is being female. All humans (even in old age) tend toward femininity.
That’s why George H.W. Bush broke into sobs at that tribute to Jeb.  Some wag told him he was the winning contestant on Queen for a Day.
The main thing that keeps men from diverging into the female pattern is testosterone, and testosterone is suppressed by an excess of estrogen.
Well, if we’re going to be consistent and take the conservative — even Stosselian — view of science, we must conclude that if testosterone can pwned that easily by girl stuff, then it’s a weak, unworthy hormone which deserves to be exploited by more successful organic chemicals.
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.
Um…what research, exactly?  A citation would be nice here, since he’s basically accused bean curd of infanticide.  Seems odd that a scientist of his caliber would fail to observe the most basic protocols of–
Oops.  Sorry.  Just jumped to the end and met our author:
James Rutz is chairman of Megashift Ministries and founder-chairman of Open Church Ministries. He is the author of “MEGASHIFT: Igniting Spiritual Power,” and, most recently, “The Meaning of Life.”
Which explains this:
Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That’s why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today’s rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because “I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t homosexual.” No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can’t remember a time when excess estrogen wasn’t influencing them.
Well, at least he’s not blaming Hollywood for his shrinking wang.
Doctors used to hope soy would reduce hot flashes, prevent cancer and heart disease, and save millions in the Third World from starvation. That was before they knew much about long-term soy use. Now we know it’s a classic example of a cure that’s worse than the disease.
A slight case of man-boobs is worse than starvation?  How will we break the news to Hugh Hewitt?
For example, if your baby gets colic from cow’s milk, do you switch him to soy milk? Don’t even think about it. His phytoestrogen level will jump to 20 times normal. If he is a she, brace yourself for watching her reach menarche as young as seven, robbing her of years of childhood. If he is a boy, it’s far worse: He may not reach puberty till much later than normal.
Mr. Rutz is still waiting for his testes to drop, and he only used a splash of soy sauce that one time at Benihana!
Research in 2000 showed that a soy-based diet at any age can lead to a weak thyroid, which commonly produces heart problems and excess fat. Could this explain the dramatic increase in obesity today?
It certainly explains why the Japanese are such a fat-assed, lethargic nation of Nero Wolfes.
Recent research on rats shows testicular atrophy, infertility and uterus hypertrophy (enlargement) … Worse, there’s now scientific evidence that estrogen ingredients in soy products may be boosting the rapidly rising incidence of leukemia in children. In the latest year we have numbers for, new cases in the U.S. jumped 27 percent. In one year!
And it can’t possibly have any connection to a weakening of EPA standards, an increased reluctance to crack down on industrial polluters, or the infiltration of our water sources by man-made chemicals which mimic hormones?  Nah.  It’s the baby-killing bean curd.
Anyway, this sounds like a serious situation!  Maybe I should check out some of these scientific findings myself.  Which is going to be a trifle challenging, since Mr. Rutz didn’t tell me what research he was referring to, or who performed it, or when.  Oh well, guess I’ll just have to spin the ol’ Wheel of Google…
Ah, here’s a story that seems germane:  Penn researchers take a long-term look at the safety of soy-based infant formula.
To understand whether hormone-like chemicals in soy products may influence sexual development in children, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have revisited a study on soy-based infant formula begun over thirty years ago.
Their results, published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, reaffirm the safety of soy infant formula and offer evidence against the harmful effects of soy that have been presented in the popular media. According to their findings, soy formula does not appear to lead to any more health or reproductive problems than cow milk formula.
Hm. So this was actually debunked back in 2001.  Well, to be fair, I don’t think WND qualifies as “popular media,” so there’s no reason they shouldn’t still be allowed to play with some of John Stossel’s old hand-me-downs.  Tis, after all, the season of giving.  And if there’s one thing the average WND reader wants under his tree this year, it’s some alarmist anti-scientific claptrap served up by the chairman of a megachurch that grants him license to eat another Western Bacon Double Cheeseburger from Carl’s Jr.
UPDATE: While I’m ashamed to say that Mr. Rutz is new to me, apparently he’s an old friend of Sadly, No!, who have reported extensively on his previous careers as a Witchfinder General, and the scourge of demons in rural Guatamala, crusades Rutz apparently pursued with an unflagging vigor before realizing it was probably safer to fight soybeans.

23 Responses to “WND REVEALS! Soy Is Secret Homosexual Sauce!”

Thanks for mentioning sex-hormone mimicing pesticides, the effects of which are orders of magnitude worse than the traces of phytoestrogens in soybean.
I long for the days when Christian Scientist meant you just kept to yourself in a reading room somewhere and didn’t seek medical attention. Sheesh!
Next week: WND reveals that research shows Climate Change is caused by a lack of Christmas greetings!
(Why can’t WNDs be smuggled into Syria and left there?)
Ironically, a little estrogen is precisely what these jerkwads need…
Man, that’s delightfully nuts (it feels like something from Landover Baptist.
[...] Original post by scott [...]
“Soylent Green… It’s made with people!!!”
(C’mon, someone had to say it.)
It’s truly amazing how many things that the wingnuts will seek to blame gayness on. Since it obviously can’t be inborn, it MUST come from…SOY! Evil, corrupting SOY! Mom! Dad! Don’t touch it! It’s evil!!! (BOOM!)
Seriously, is this what they do all day? Think of ways to explain away the gay? And here I thought it was just because I had a distant father…or an overbearing mother…or I was sexually molested or…
Holy fuck. I’m a goddamned conspiracy buff pagan schizophrenic and I don’t believe shit this weird or stupid. Didn’t their god give them brains? You’d think he’d be annoyed they’re not bothering to use them.
Is there any chance that was intended as some kind of “Onion”-style put-on? I mean, c’mon, nobody could actually believe something so completely batshit insane. Could they?
COULD they….?
That’s a scary thought.
D.Sidhe: Saddly, a lot of times with these people, logic is evil.
Go easy on Jim. He’s been eatin’ them rocky mountain oysters on the half-hoof lately, which has been shown to cause homophobes to go nuts, though sheepishly.
Jesus Christ. Even the War on Christmas makes more sense on The War on Soy.
And in response to all of the rhetorical questions:
“Seriously, is this what they do all day? Think of ways to explain away the gay?” Yes, Johnny M,this what they do all day, every day. Cause they’re crazy.
D. Sidhe, “Didn’t their god give them brains?” Now you know the answer to that as well as anyone. The answer is a qualified Yes. It’s just that said brains don’t work very well. For example, I have a broken coffee maker. ( it’s the Solstice Season and I’m being overly charitable)
And Bill S, “I mean, c’mon, nobody could actually believe something so completely batshit insane. Could they?
COULD they….?” In the immortal words of Gabby Hayes “Yup, Hoppy.”
Soy spelled backward:
Y-O-S
“Yes, Oh Satan.”
There you go.
Y’know, I ingest hardly any soy products at all, yet look at me! Queer as a three dollah bill! Mebbe it’s ;cause I swal… erm… uh… wait a minute…
[during our brief pause, we'll entertain you with an excerpt from the novel. "Tony, the Horny Pony Boi"]
Toby was now 18, and in many ways, he just seemed different than the other boys. Wjereas most of them had grown body hair to the point that they needed to shave regularly, Tony was smooth as a baby’s bottom. Everywhere. Also, Tony noticed in the gym shower at school, their manhoods seemed… well, manlier than his. Bigger. Swinglier. More prone to sudden bouts of… what was the phrase? Wood. Yes. When Tony saw that happen, he got a strange feeling inside. A feeling that he’d like to have something long and hard]
(snip)
Well! That’s enough of that! Boy, considering the steady flow out of the Republicans’ closet, I think it’s more likely that conservatism causes the queering. or perhaps having a real battleaxe for a mom–see jonah Goldberg, J-Pod, and Dubya and others. It woulda been enough to put me off women… not that something didn’t. It just wasn’t soy.
Um, that “Toby” was supposed to be a “Tony.” Sheesh.
And while I’m back in here, what was that bit about the miracle gayifying soy shrinking penises‽‽ I’ve never noticed any lack in that department! Lemme check my fabulous stash of ghey pr0n…
[...time passes...]
[...] Vía | Pandagon | Word o’ crap [...]
[...] From a “World-O-Crap” blog commentary, I find a link to a study that debunked this claim in 2001. Yep, fear-mongering apparently doesn’t have a statute of limitations. [...]
*Heh.* Many aeons ago, I used to work for a public interest group whose main interest was better nutrition, and it was heavily funded by Big Soybean. So I figured that someone would go after Big Soy one day, but for THIS reason??
My former employers were distressed that half the calories in tofu come from fat, and that all the fiber is strained out of the soymilk before it is curded, separated, and pressed into those white blocks. In order to publish recipes containing tofu, I had to overload the dish with so many vegetables that the fat content zoomed back near zero, and the tofu was a whisper rather than a shout.
I demonstrated to my skeptical bosses, via before and after, the almost inedible okara (the soy fiber pulp left over from making soymilk), and the I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-pork homemade soysage patties I’d made of the okara and some virtuous whole-food ingredients. Then I ran my soysage recipe through the office’s nutritional software and learned that its fat content was shamelessly close to regular pork sausage, though the soysage fat was unsaturated and cholesterol-free, and the food itself full of vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
*DING*! Can’t publish the recipe! It’s too high in fat! Who’s gonna bother with this (besides me)? And now–it’ll turn us all into great mincing poofters?!
Time to get out the soybeans, folks: I’ve been hit by a food craving as intense as any during pregnancy. Soysage and home fries! Coming up!
Well! I’m back! Anybody miss me? No? Right, I’ll just go back to perusing ghey pr0n….
[time passes]…
I missed you, Marq. (I don’t know how to work the italic font, or I would have italicized the “I.”)
Mrs. Biscuitbarrel, to work the italic font, place the letter i between two <> brackets. To close it, place /i between the same two <>. For Bold, substitute the letter b.
Said more succinctly than my “Quick ‘n Dirty Guide to HTML” on the old site, though in my defense, on the old site, you couldn’t post the “” symbols together without them disappearing. Plus, I suck as a technical writer. :)

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