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So WorldNetDaily asserts that soy will turn you gay:

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.

A tongue-in-cheek response from the SFGate takes the next logical step, suggesting that all vegans are obviously gay:

Is it not obvious? After all, most vegans eat a lot of soy. Consequently, most vegans are, of course, violently gay, just like billions of Asians who’ve eaten soy products for millennia and are so gay and feminine and estrogen heavy they can barely stand up. Which explains Hello Kitty. And samurai movies. And the Scion Xb. I mean, obviously.

My question to you is: which is funnier, the original WorldNetDaily piece or the SFGate rebuttal. I personally say that WND story is. The Gate is trying to be cheeky, and there’s little less funny than that. WND gets the whole wingnut kook thing just right while keeping a straight face. Which is braggable.

My only question is: We eat organic baby greens from time to time in my home, yet I’ve let my subscription to The New Yorker lapse. Does this make me a Communist or Dutch? It’s one of the two, but I can’t remember which.

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