Raelian UFO Cult offers Disgraced Korean Cloner a Job

GENEVA, January 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo is reporting that a “US biotech firm” has offered the disgraced Korean cloning researcher, Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, a job. The firm, Clonaid, has been discredited as a sham associated with “Raelians”, a UFO cult that claims humans were planted on Earth by benevolent extraterrestrials.

The cult’s spokesman, Brigitte Boisselier, writing on Clonaid’s website, accuses “religious powers,” for Hwang’s downfall saying it was engineered and that his research results were tampered with. “We also believe that…he has been discredited as he wasn't in line with what the political and religious powers of this world wanted regarding the cloning technology,” Boisselier writes.

The UFO cult made headlines when its leader, a former French sports journalist who calls himself “Rael,” appeared at a US congressional hearing on cloning. He claims that Jesus, the Buddha, and other religious figures were actually cloned by extraterrestrials and living in “UFOland.” Rael, whose real name is Claude Vorilhon, maintains that cloning will create a paradise where people will live forever.

Hwang, a former Catholic, has indeed been vigorously opposed by the Korean Catholic Church that supports stem cell research that does not involve the creating and killing of human clones. In October 2005, the Archdiocese of Seoul said it would provide 10 billion won (US$9.6 million) for ethical adult stem cell research.

The falsification of cloning reports should make Hwang an ideal candidate for Clonaid and the Raelians who, in 2002, were claiming to have created cloned children and implanted them in female volunteers for gestation. The hoax was exposed when no children or verifiable data were ever produced.

Hwang, however, is unlikely to join the organization. In June 2005, referring to the creation of cloned children for “reproductive purposes, Hwang told an interviewer, “Cloning a human being is nonsense. Briefly, it is not ethical, it is not safe at all, and it’s technically impossible.”

The characterization of the Raelians in the Korean press as a legitimate scientific research organization is not shared by the US State Department that is aware of its anti-Catholic propaganda activities. In its report on religious intolerance for 2003, the State Department noted, “The Raelian Church of Canada, an officially recognized religion in Quebec, had targeted Quebec high schools as part of its ongoing campaign to persuade Roman Catholics to renounce their faith.”

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http://www.rael.org/

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Cloners in State of Complete Moral Disconnect
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05060809.html

For some reason, this is not at all surprising.

1 posted on 01/17/2006 5:25:22 PM PST by wagglebee

2 posted on 01/17/2006 5:26:39 PM PST by MARKUSPRIME

From the Clonaid website: "CLONAID™ ,the first human cloning company in the world, was founded in February 1997, by RAËL and a group of investors who created the Valiant Venture Ltd Corporation based in the Bahamas."

"...based in the Bahamas." That says it all.

3 posted on 01/17/2006 5:29:19 PM PST by gotribe (Hillary: Accessory to Rape)

a former French sports journalist who calls himself “Rael,” appeared at a US congressional hearing on cloning.

Really? Was it Kennedy that invited him to testify?

4 posted on 01/17/2006 5:31:43 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)

It was probably Jacques Querri.

5 posted on 01/17/2006 5:33:01 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)

They should offer Algore a job, too!!

Come to think of it, this loony cult is just the place for Hillarity, Howie Dean, UpChuck Schumer, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the 'Rat cabal. Let them all be Raelians..... they sound like loony cultists already!!

6 posted on 01/17/2006 5:34:11 PM PST by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")

7 posted on 01/17/2006 5:35:23 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

I'm really surprised that Calypso Louis Farrakhan isn't on their board of directors.

8 posted on 01/17/2006 5:35:58 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)

Never trust a cult that wears old Devo tour clothes.

9 posted on 01/17/2006 5:37:49 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (The search for someone to blame is always successful. - Robert Half)

The Raelians: proud members of the "reality-based community".

10 posted on 01/17/2006 5:38:59 PM PST by RightWingAtheist (Creationism Is Not Conservative!)

To: RightWingAtheist

11 posted on 01/17/2006 5:43:51 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)

This is too funny, yet strangely appropriate.

12 posted on 01/17/2006 5:51:26 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Sam Alito Deserves To Be Confirmed)

I heard that Jacques Querri served in Weyetnum.

13 posted on 01/17/2006 5:54:45 PM PST by jeremiah (People wake up, the water is getting hot)

14 posted on 01/17/2006 6:35:16 PM PST by pissant

They have some hot chicks in that cult. He should probably take the job.

15 posted on 01/17/2006 8:45:11 PM PST by Welsh Rabbit

I wonder if they visit and keep tabs of this site:
http://www.serpo.org/
Latest version of MJ-12 stories regarding alien cloning over there on their turf, just posted this last week.

16 posted on 01/29/2006 7:55:15 PM PST by Cvengr (<;^) Adversity in life and death is inevitable, stress is optional.)

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