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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Raelians Sue Pope Benedict XVI In British Court
In Great Britain, the European Raelian Movement has filed a lawsuit in Britain's High Court against Pope Benedict XVI charging him with violating international human rights law and committing genocide in Africa by continuing to claim that condoms do not prevent the spread of AIDS. According to a press release from the Raelian Movement, the complaint also alleges that the Vatican organized a disinformation campaign against Raelians in retaliation for the Raellians' attempt to call attention to the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandal. Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict) was in charge of dealing with the sex abuse scandal in the 1990's. The Raelian Movement believes that all life on earth was created thousands of years ago by extraterrestrial scientists who were mistaken by our ancestors for gods.