Now, at the dawn of humanity's cloning capabilities and with Republican politicians like State Senator John J. Marchi of Staten Island attempting to rush a cloning ban that would imprison clone researchers by making cloning a Class D felony (punishable by a prison term of three to seven years) Wicker has once again stepped into history's spotlight, saying, "Preserve Your Reproductive Rights! Prevent the outlawing of cloning! Allow Same-Sex Reproduction!" He has founded what appears to be the world's first pro-cloning rights group, Clone Rights United Front, claiming that "Cloning is a Gay and a Feminist Issue!" (Click on Badpuppy's Gay Today current "Interview" with Wicker).

"It is a gay issue," says the famed gay crusader, "because heterosexuality as a route to reproduction, is now historically obsolete." It is a feminist issue and a male liberation issue too because men and women, not the government, have a natural right to maintain reproductive control over their own bodies. Government, led by excitable, homophobic and foolish politicians like Marchi, has no right to keep us from reproducing ourselves."

Senator Marchi told reporters that cloning "just collides violently with almost any culture I can think of. We're dealing with something of great concern to humanity." Marchi's fears, based on the fact that human cloning, following the cloning of a sheep in Scotland, comes next on a clear path basing reproduction on cells instead of sperm. "New York state ought to forbid it," insists Senator Marchi, "We ought not to permit a cottage industry to the God business."

"A cottage industry in the God business?" scoffs Wicker in a reply to Gay Today, "Why what are all of these fundamentalist and orthodox churches, after all, but simply cottage industries in the God business?"

Wicker's Clone Bill of Rights says: "Every person's DNA is his or her personal property. To have that DNA cloned into another extended life is part and parcel of the right to make one's own decision about controlling reproduction. Also, our genes are our own personal property, not government's." Wicker also says that constitutionally, the right to self-reproduction can not be assigned to either state legislatures nor to the federal government, nor to religious authorities. It is reserved to each and every citizen to decide if, how, and when to reproduce." Wicker says that the "how" part is of particular importance to gay men and lesbians and their reproductive rights. He believes that research, not rhetoric and/or freedom limiting legal restrictions, is the only way to discover the real effects of cloning. Restrictions on cloning research as it affects humans should not even be considered unless true social harm can be meaningfully demonstrated.

Wicker's registration of his Clone Rights United Front as the Clone Rights Action Center, is now complete. Those who telephone the Action Center (212-255-1439 during the hours of 1 p.m.. to 8 p.m..) may hear the song "Hello Dolly" Wicker's choice to celebrate the emergence into the limelight of Dolly, the sheep recently cloned in Scotland.