Jose Benítez blames tap water for increase in gay population
November 23rd, 2011 - 9:43 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattLima, Peru, Nov 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A Peruvian mayor is blaming the country’s tap water for the increase in the number of homosexuals in the country. Mayor Jose Benitez of Huarmey in central Peru says the high level of strontium is responsible for the condition.
The Peruvian newspaper La Republica reports that Benitez made the comments when he launched a project in his town to provide water for the populace. The mayor has been criticized at certain quarters for the comments with some suggesting that he is ignorant about the issue he spoke about.
One such critic is the dean of the College of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of Lima, Dr. Robert Castro Rodriguez, rubbished the mayor’s analysis during a chat with a radio station in the country’s capital Lima. Castro said high levels of strontium are known to cause cancer, bone diseases and other health conditions but not homosexuality.
South America is predominantly catholic with several countries having strict laws against homosexuals. In 2009, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales blamed hormones that are injected in chickens for the rise in the number of gay people in the country.
The Bolivian leader to a climate change conference that because the female chicken are given hormones, “men who consume them have problems being men.”
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