Religious Group Hijacks Human Cloning Movement

So, today, October 10th and 11th, we have a religious group announcing that they have $500,000.00 donated to clone a female child who died at the age of ten month.  In Montreal, Canada, the Raelians had a press conference to show to the world that they had 50 willing surrogate mothers for the first child conceived through cloning.  The Washington Post mused on the idea that a "religious cult" with many willing egg donors and many willing surrogate mothers was "technically positioned" to achieve what the mundane fertility industry has stridently denied any interest in doing- cloning a human being.  So, here we are, the most important movement in the world today with so much "input" to give but with no takers because their 30-second soundbite mentality makes them "time slaves" to a religious cult that has hijacked the "real" human cloning movement.  It all just fills me with disgust. Why has this come to be? Why isn't sane rational discussion of this issue even given its day in court?  I foresee the covers of Newsweek, Time, even the Economist, with pictures of the "new prophet" Rael holding the first child conceived through cloning in his arms.  Rael is to enter a race car contest, today, in Montreal (unless I am mistaken). I "put my life at risk" having a volunteer Raelian (Masseuse by profession) woman drive me to UFO Land.  While the tires screamed on the entrance ramp and my blood pressure soared (contemplating eternity) on the way to UFO Land, I was "assured" by my driver and friend in the backseat that "Rael is very comfortable at 150 miles per hour".  Now, if Rael happened to "crash" today/tomorrow, I would suddenly find myself a supporter of their efforts to clone him.  Otherwise, I really don't believe that they deserve to be in the "driver's seat" of this movement.

Cloningly yours,

Randolfe H. Wicker