Posted on 11/22/2011 4:39:05 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
José Benítez, the mayor of Huarmey, a town on the coast of central Peru, claims that the high levels of strontium in the local tap water is reducing male hormones and causing an increase in the homosexual population, reported Peruvian newspaper, La Republica.
Benitez made the comments at the launch of a local water access project, it was reported. The mayor's audience was surprised by his comments, and he is being criticized by some for his "ignorance."
Dr. Robert Castro Rodriguez, dean of the College of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of Lima, said Benitez's claims were off the mark, telling a Peruvian radio station that high amounts of strontium could lead to bone cancer, anemia and cardiovascular complications, but not homosexuality.
This is not the first time a South American politician has blamed chemistry for homosexuality. In 2009, Bolivian president Evo Morales said that hormones injected into chicken can not only turn people gay, but bald as well.
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Is he Mooselimb? I thought only Mooselimbs were that stupid.
I heard a study late last week or early this week that said the countries w/ the highest rates of prostate cancer also are top in usage of oral contraceptives.
There’s gotta be an effect to all the hormones in water. Growing up as a kid, I don’t ever remember seeing dudes with boobs. Why all the man boobs??? Weird.
Geez.....
Its not just the pill but all us old ladies on HRT
Ask an American Indian. Better yet go look at them.
Soy - it is in everything - that messes with our hormones.
Will watch later, maybe. I know soy could be a culprit in this thing. Also, plastic leaches female type hormones, at least much of it does. The markets are full of plastic.
How to beat the recession:
1. Bottle the water
2. Label it PER EVIAN.
3. Export it to the US and Europe.
4. Secure “green” product status from Obama admin-
istration with strategically placed campaign
contributions in order to secure start-up funding
from US taxpayers.
5. Secure concessions at all gay pride parades,
soccer matches, and Michael Moore documentary
movie showings.
Real men are supposed to be able to operate, for the most part, without a little blue pill. Now days, it sounds like they all need it.
Next Chaz will be claiming blue pills in the water is what turned her.
I was a blond, blue eyed boy with no chest hair. When I was about 10-12 years old, I had 1 hair in my chest about 1 1/2 inch long. Dad was cutting my hair and in his clean up effort, brushed me off and snatched my chest hair and it was gone.....I protested loudly, we all laughed, and it never grew back.....oh well...I'm 73 and still without chest hair!!
Walker Percy wrote a book, “The Thanatos Syndrome”, about heavy water doing some very strange things along these lines.
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