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Dec 29 02: you didn't ask
Let the record show: Saturday morning, not long after I’d staggered out of the bedroom and long before we left for the plane, Mom recapped stuff from the day’s headlines at me and before she had gotten any farther than “There’s this religious group from somewhere that says they’ve cloned somebody…” and I shouted “Oh my god! It’s the Raelians!”
Yes, I knew them when. I love the Raelians. They are, as most of you are probably by now aware, a fascinating bunch of weirdos. I’ve been periodically checking up on the Rael website for years. Their aliens-as-angels story for the origins of humanity; their let’s-build-an-embassy-for-our-alien-brethren plan; their better-living-through-science philosophy: I love it all. But my favorite part of Raelianism is this little footnote about how we’ll be a happier, more peaceful race when we get over our sexual hangups and get into free love, baby.
Not that it isn’t necessarily true. But! The thing is! This is the best part! It used to be that if you read far enough into the Rael website, you’d evenually find the pages about coming to their free Raelianism 101 workshops, and then if you went a ways beyond that you’d find the little advisory that if you were coming to a free workshop you should be in good health and oh also please have yourself tested for sexually transmissible diseases first.
Heh. Strangely, this advisory is no longer on the website. It vanished in a site overhaul a couple years back, when they upgraded to a slicker, more professional look.
Makes you wonder, though. Free love and sexless reproduction? An interesting pairing.
Finally: fifty points off to the Rael.org webmaster. Where the hell are the press releases regarding the clone? The site doesn’t mention it at all. Plus your Javascript is buggy and your links to your “about our seminars” videos are outdated. Shame on you.