Posted on 03/08/2005 1:09:13 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The world, according to followers of the prophet Rael, would be a better place if all people embraced their feminine side. In furtherance of this goal, nearly a dozen scantily-clad Raelians paraded on Lincoln Road Sunday for Femininity Day.
Decked in goddess garb -- butterfly wings, pasties and sparkly purple wraps -- the seven women marched from Washington Avenue to Alton Road, carrying signs and passing out fliers to bring others to the cause. They were joined by three men -- one a buff, blonde massage therapist from Switzerland who wore only a Speedo.
''The body is beautiful and we should be free,'' said Donna Newman, a Miami Raelian who handles the group's public relations.
The Raelians had initially said their display would include a ''fully nude choreographed street performance.'' They thought better of it upon learning of Miami Beach nudity laws.
For those who don't remember, the Raelians -- followers of the French-born race-car driver cum prophet, Rael -- claimed to have cloned a baby girl in 2002. Believers say aliens created the human race in a laboratory 22,000 years ago and are still keeping watch.
More than 60,000 people the world over are said to believe the Raelian philosophy. Only 15 or so, however, live in South Florida. Most showed up in support of spreading the goal of human acceptance and world peace through an understanding of women's power to unite.
But the group's message might have been lost in the spectacle. As they made their way down Lincoln Road -- stopping only to perform a dance to Shania Twain's Man, I Feel Like a Woman -- throngs of tourists and locals alike reached for their cameras, or camera phones.
''I thought they were strippers,'' said Dawn Wentworth, in town from Las Vegas.
Sisters Cendrine and Michelle Tremblay -- who came down from Tampa and were the only two who wore dresses rather than the goddess attire -- were even asked out on dates. Cendrine, a 40-ish looking woman in immaculate physical condition, wore a dress so tight and small, it rode up, baring the bottom of her buttocks.
''I think it's disgusting; there are children here,'' said Esther Sait, an Orthodox Jew walking by with family when the scene unfolded.
The Raelians would agree that it's the world that's messed up -- not them. ''We're here to give a message to humanity: violence, hate, racism is mostly perpetrated by man. It's just the nature of man to be aggressive. Women have an innate affinity for kindness,'' Newman said. ``Wouldn't it be beautiful if men, instead of going to into battle with machine guns, carried roses in their hands?''
BARELY THERE: A group of scantily clad Raelians, led by Lisa Lumiere, walks Lincoln Road on Sunday. JARED LAZARUS/HERALD STAFF
I....I...just don't know where to take this. God love them.
The last paragraph of the posted article gives about ten possible subjects, each requiring it's own thread.
Thank God this group is harmless.
Women have an innate affinity for kindness,'' Newman said. It's the goofiness in statements like this that make me want to deprogram them. Women can be just as hurtful, careless, deadly as men. Men haven't' cornered the market on those qualities, just as women haven't cornered the market on kindness and generosity. She is painting with too wide a brush.
``Wouldn't it be beautiful if men, instead of going to into battle with machine guns, carried roses in their hands?'' Okay, maybe it's the insomnia talking here, but statements like this just make me cranky. Stop trying to make men into something they never will or should be. A man can bring peace just as he can bring war. I want a man that can do both.
Hmmm...not bad. HOw can I find these "Raelians?" LOL
Media math.
BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!
Whatever happened to the Raelian woman with baked bean teeth who was going to clone herself? Yuck!
Before you agree, think Madeline Albright in a thong. Hillary Clinton in a leather bustier. Helen Thomas ...
Here he comes, here comes Rael Racer, he's a prophet on wheels...
Looks like the same gal in the newspaper photo. According to the Raelian homepage;
Lisa, Hollywood, FL Therapist of Chinese medicine "Spread our wings to the harmony of Infinity... to celebrate our dreams!"
She's pretty cute.
A tactician she ain't.
"Wouldn't it be beautiful if men, instead of going to into battle with machine guns, carried roses in their hands?"
A gun, by any other name...
#14......chimp smile.
cool, and if you click on their photos you can email them. hehe
Thanks. Now I'm going to have nightmares.
I need more coffee. I read this too quickly and thought you said "if you click on their photos you can smell them."
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