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"This site (www.humancloning.org) is rushing to collect support for human cloning before it is banned," says a new Internet arrival originating in Atlanta, "People are scared of human cloning and don't understand its tremendous potential."
CNN, rating the interests of high-school students in Arkansas, noted February 20 that human cloning and current Y2K theories are in the lead. The New York Times tells how public opposition to cloning has subsided during the past two years since Dolly, a Scottish sheep, was born. Even members of the U.S. Congress, once bitterly opposed to cloning , are now welcoming major medical advances emerging as a result of cloning and stem cell research.
The Foundation's web site unashamedly announces that "Gay Today newsmagazine supports human cloning," and explains that "Gay Today is a weekly Internet newsmagazine" and that it is "unequivocally pro-human cloning and may have covered the cloning issue better than any other newspaper or magazine." As a result, high school students, religious fanatics, and racist homophobes have been introduced to Randolfe Wicker's quips and quotes, which include his startling announcement: "Heterosexuality's historic monopoly on reproduction is now obsolete." The Human Cloning Foundation's discussion forums, therefore, have turned into a sometime battle ground between pro-human cloning advocates who are seemingly unperturbed by homosexuality and anti-cloning homophobes and slammers who, it appears, are also racists and aspiring gay bashers and killers. Wicker, a masterful foe in debates and a font of unique and imaginative viewpoints, replies to anti-gay cloning opponents without rancor. In one reply he writes: "The problem is that people spend a lot of time and energy inventing and/or imagining problems whenever cloning is mentioned, not out of serious deep thought but just because they are really against cloning and can't find legitimate arguments supporting their feelings. I'm tempted to give the flip reply: "No pain. No gain." But there may be legitimate interpersonal problems involved. "For instance. a legitimate question to my mind might be as follows. A single woman decides to create her own family by cloning herself, bearing her own later born twin, which she would raise with a unique parent/child bond. "Now, what if that bond is so special and so close that we discover women raised in such a fashion have such a "close relationship" with their mothers that they tend to stay at home with Mom instead of going out and finding mates the old fashioned way? "To make even further inroads in the new frontier, what if at age 22, daughter decides her life with mom is so special and wonderful that she wants to have a daughter just like mom and herself so conceives a later born twin like Mom. "At this point, we have for the first time in human history same-sex families. But life might be easier for the first daughter because now she might share parenting with her twenty-year-older mother, creating single-sex-intergenerational-co-parenting for the first time.
"I think such an idea is intriguing and fascinating as opposed to "frightening" and I only hope to live long enough to find out the answers.
"The single legitimate objection to such a pattern would be that, if practiced on a very wide scale, (which it wouldn't be) it would "freeze" evolution." An angry homophobe takes a murderous view of Wicker: "yes... if i had the funds and technology to clone humans, could i possibly clone a whole fuckin' enterage of gay killaz? i mean, if i could eliminate all the homo's in society, i would be a gawd." A second anti-cloning zealot, hoping to kill homosexuals too, asks the above writer to connect with him : "I would also like to contribute funds to the killin' off of homo's, might I suggest we also kill off the following minorties... Jew's, Ethiopeans (sic), and muslims (sic). Hit me up on the phone later Skeeve, and maybe we can start a busniess (sic)." Wicker told GayToday he's not discouraged by anti-gay, anti-cloning bigots. "Some of them had best be careful," he said, recalling how—on December 1-- technical sleuths from GayToday quickly located homophobic murder-advocates and engineered the demise of both their sites and their e-mail privileges. |
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