(You'd think Russia, of all places, would be familiar with the concept of bears.)

Homosexuality isn’t catching. But clearly no one told the priest who has said straight men should grow full and bushy beards to prevent them from accidentally swapping sexualities.
Metropolitan Kornily, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, may not want to visit any of the gay bars on Sydney’s Oxford Street — fulsome facial hair is totally on trend right now.
Kornily, who last month met up with Russian President Vladimir Putin, lamented that beards had fallen out of fashion.
“God set down certain rules. The Lord created everyone with a beard. No man can resist his creator,” Kornily told Russia’s National News Service. “It’s made a monstrous thing to see men’s clothing and hairstyles changing.”

The beard had almost “completely disappeared from the Catholic West,” he added, surely a nod to the clean shaven Pope Francis.
Kornily said Russian men should refrain from the razor to “protect themselves from homosexuality,” reported the Moscow Times.