Today’s Shot of Bizarre Homophobia

It’s been argued for years: What makes you either gay or straight, nature or nurture? I'm very pleased to report that Jim Rutz, head religio-honcho of MegaShift has finally settled the matter: It’s Tofu! A few quotes from his article:

There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture…The dangerous food I'm speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they're all over the place.

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.

I’m not sure whether to just let this stand for itself or to refute it. There are so many ways to attack it, that I don’t even know where to begin. For instance, there are many countries in the world that consume way more soy than the U.S. (East Asia, the indigenous source of soybeans) and they aren’t exactly gay hot spots; there is plenty of evidence that soy reduces the risks of cancer contrary to his claim in the article; there is no evidence that the gay population has actually grown, and even the growth in acknowledging GLBT orientations can’t possibly keep up the increases in soy production; or that the massive increase in soy production over the past 30 years is mainly used to feed cattle, pigs, and chickens that provide the meat that Rutz apparently prefers—if anything, it’s the cows that should be turning gay!