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 C-Span Televises Cloning Inquiry by the U.S. Congress Randolfe Wicker Updates GayToday on His Media Blitz |
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By Randolfe Wicker Director, Human Cloning Foundation
Of course, the very idea of comparing "cloning" with "rape" and/or "incest" was repugnant to me. I told old Jerry off, saying every child is his or her own unique self, saying that "clone" is an offensive word, that Jerry himself was the kind of person who'd call a child born out of wedlock "illegitimate"; our Human Cloning Foundation, I explained, has shown that many devout Christians are supporting us. As I got up to leave the studio, John Gibson, commented that I, like Dr. Frankenstein, (this is the way the ignorant think), "would have the peasants at my door with pitchforks and burning torches" (his fantasy, not mine). I assured him of two things. First, I was quite aware of polls that showed 90% of the public was opposed to human cloning so, therefore, I would consider anything over 10% in the FOX poll to be a victory. Secondly, I assured him that I really wasn't a "worried Dr. Frankenstein" because we were going to produce a beautiful and normal baby and the entire world "loves a beautiful baby". We were not going to produce a Frankenstein! Well, the ignorant right-wing FOX vote came in with us losing 87% to 13%. To John Gibson's credit, he noted that I had said anything "over 10%" would be a victory for our side. U.S. Congress' House Investigations Committee But, dear readers that is just the "fizz" and not the substance of this report. I went to Washington to testify to our unenlightened radical-right legislators who simply want to ban human cloning forever since, among other things, it will remove the "moral stain" of "bareness from homosexuals."
They just didn't understand the issue. Funny that the Japanese Public Television crew understood it. "Funny that Rael would call me and threaten to sue me for "libel" and tell me that his Clonaid had only "one customer"—the couple who have the erroneous idea that they can resurrect their deceased child through cloning. We have no thinking representatives. The gay groups should have been on the Raelian's ass the minute that they tried to defraud gay couples with their false promises. They could still do so by filing complaints of "attempted fraud " against this group in California's courts. The HRC wouldn't have the nerve to do that. It would threaten their "validity". Why they are still paying off the debts they incurred supporting Al D'Amato (crook of crooks in my opinion) in his senate race against Senator Charles Schulmer. So, it seems that the independent filmmaker who has been following me like a shadow for several months might have a shot at producing a film for HBO on the human cloning movement. Just ignore those "scare stories" about human cloning. They are just a bunch of religious fanatics working out their "personal problems" about human cloning. They can't deal with the reality of gay couples having kids, of children possibly raising their parents as their own kids, etc. Cloning just "breaks the mold" and all the old verities that you have to be heterosexual and you have to have a male and female to have a child, etc., are now "historically obsolete." Finally, I'll note that I really got hostile with a mindless writer from Playboy Magazine this past week. He seemed to be on that one-mile-wide, one-tenth-of-an-inch deep mindset of "who is doing it and where is it going to happen?" He was one of the victims of the Northstar Internet failure and had a deadline looming. So, being a masochistic human cloning activist, I gathered about forty pages of relevant material and spent an hour or more "faxing" it to him (at my expense) hoping that I might pry open his obviously closed mind. I got a posting on the www.humancloning.org Web site that seemed to be excited that I had forwarded this brilliant posting to the writer so I called him to share the information with him. No appreciation would be forthcoming. He briskly informed me that he had "only one page of paper left" in his fax machine when he returned on Monday. In fact, one of the most brilliant postings that I had taken the time to send him, he hadn't "had time to read " because "he was too busy writing" to meet his deadline So much for the day when Playboy was an intellectual mentor in our society. Now it is written by mindless idiots who would rather write nonsense than take a couple hours to read "the truth". These are the sad facts about this issue and our times. History will look back and find it unbelievable that we had this kind of stupid mindless moral debate as we entered the 21st Century.
Cloningly yours, |
