I can't help but laugh at bit at this. He even "lamented" the fading away of beards from fashion in Catholic Europe. I don't think Western Europeans were heavy on beards for a long time. Even during the Industrial period, it was already falling out of fashion. Didn't Peter I even implemented a beard tax on Russia to get people to shave of their beards? He was later lampooned on caricatures as a cat for wearing "Western" mustache.
Protect men from being gay? He probably never saw bears...
I think this is a play on words, or a long-form troll operation. "Beard" is slang for a woman that pretends to be your girlfriend to hide the fact that you're gay. So maybe he's talking about woman "beards" not facial hair, haha.
I don't think he was thinking of that English slang.