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If we’re going to have a conservative civil war, the dividing line should be those who believe in protecting and preserving marriage, the family, and unborn life vs those indifferent or opposed. You can’t be a conservative in any meaningful sense if you don’t want to conserve the bedrock of civilization itself.

You can bend the steel but not its meaning

I know it’s a bit presumptuous to say but I do believe your father is dealing with something that I also dealt with, in a very personal sense. I too was on benzos for many years. I was prescribed them for 5 years in my twenties for panic disorder. I did a rapid taper off them in 2012 at a medical facility, where I was closely monitored and put on phenobarbital to prevent seizures. I also rapid-tapered off the SSRI I had been on at that same time, as well. I am acutely aware of the horror of withdrawing and dealing with the long-term consequences of these “medicines.” My life for the next two years was destroyed by post acute withdrawal from both. These drugs present their own horrific consequences to one’s neurological system by destroying GABA receptor sensitivity but they also contain the toxic metal aluminum in the form of coloring agents called aluminum lakes. This metal is, of itself, highly neurotoxic and responsible for the autism and Alzheimer’s disease epidemics. Now I know you might say he doesn’t have those things but aluminum has the capacity to cause a variety of neurological conditions, not just Alzheimer’s and autism because of its reactivity and capacity to initiate inflammation and ROS. He may need to deal with the aluminum toxicity (subclinical) that he has to fully heal from the damage of the benzos. I run a health consulting service that deals uniquely with this toxic metal. It may be worth investigating for him.

Gay surrogacy and gay adoption are predicated on the idea that gay men (or women) have a “right” to become parents. This idea is not only morally insane but also logically incoherent. It’s exactly like jumping off a building and claiming that you have the right to fly. Nobody has the right to defy the laws of nature. Where would such a right even originate? Two men cannot be parents. It’s impossible. Doesn’t matter how they feel or what they want. It cannot be. The only “right” at issue here is the right of the child. And the child has a right to be raised by a mother and a father, not two men masquerading as mother and father.