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December 13, 2006

Soy Beans: A Devil Food

The soy bean contains natural estrogen (a female hormone) and has been shown to throw the natural hormone balance out of balance if eaten regularly. So while it may be good for the prostate, it's not good for the libido, which is why monks in Buddhist monasteries ate so much of it (maybe they should force feed the stuff to Catholic priests). The huge amounts of soy that have crept into the American diet are also having some frightening impacts on our children's sexual development. Some are theorizing that soy is responsible for the fact that girls are entering puberty earlier than ever, that many boys are experiencing delayed puberty, that infertility is increasing, that we're all getting fatter, that testosterone levels in American men are falling, and even that homosexuality is on the rise. The latter supposed effect of soy is why some are calling it "a devil food."

Of course, these problems could also be at least partially attributable to environmental estrogens like plastics and pesticides, but that would mean pointing a finger at corporations rather than at the "devil food" that turns your kids into homosexuals. It was the Seventh-Day Adventists (a Christian denomination) who were responsible for the introduction of the soy bean into the American diet. Being a former Seventh-Day Adventist myself and knowing how people of that faith feel about health and homosexuality, not to mention their deep belief that God guides all things and blesses their church, I find it particularly ironic that in their quest to move meat out of the diet they ended up possibly being responsible for a lot of precocious pre-teen girls, gay boys, and women who ended up needing fertility treatments, which resulted in all those extra embryos that people are now fighting over whether to destroy or use for stem cell research.

Back to the article about the "devil food."

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 a scientist so I won't even argue the point of whether soy makes people gay or not – it may or it may not, and I would find it interesting either way. But assuming the author is correct that soy milk in infancy so dramatically and irreversibly harms a boy's hormones that he truly turns gay, then why would Christians continue to claim people can be cured of being gay? Why would they continue to discriminate against them for something that is not their doing and that they cannot change? And when they understand the science behind something, why would they continue to blame it on the Devil?

************UPDATE*************

Okay, maybe I will argue the point of whether soy makes people gay or not. Apparently, it does NOT, at least not that researchers have been able to verify. So go forth and enjoy your soy. It's not from the Devil.

Posted by Becky at December 13, 2006 12:36 PM