Soy will make you totally gay, wingnut says.

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.

And it will give your children leukemia, according to James Rutz, founder-chairman of Open Church Ministries.

For the record, estrogen does not make you gay. Soy contains phytoestrogen - a plant based estrogen - which also does not make you gay. Gay men don’t have smaller penises, aren’t necessarily any more sexually confused than the rest of us, and there is likely no such thing as “today’s rise in homosexuality” - we are getting a better count since increasingly people feel comfortable raising their hands when asked. (no thanks to the loonies at WorldNetDaily)

Minister Rutz claims, in his autobiography, to have a background in both advertising and Amway sales, and to have studied semantics at the university level. (remarkably, he has no expertise in nutrition) He understands how powerful food is as a metaphor, and that by attacking it he can undermine one’s sense of security and comfort.

Here at jcarrot, we think a lot about the connection between food and spirituality. Rutz just reminded me how these same themes can be used on the darkside to promote fear and intolerance. Jerk.