Yesterday
GoTopless.org unleashed demonstrations in several cities, including Venice Beach (from which
this twitpic is drawn) and ours. GoTopless is an
outreach of the
Raelians, described by
Boing Boing as "a religious cult that basically gets you in the door with promises of free sex, then brainwashes you with a bunch of garbage about UFOs and cloning and giving all your money to the church." We can't say how many converts were won by the Central Park affair, which is covered by the
Daily News as a
fun bit of street theater ("Dozens of semi-nude women gave the city a Double-D eyeful," etc); they made no mention of Rael, but reported lots of remarks like, "I'm going to tell my wife to join in," fnar fnar. You can read the Raelians' justifications of the event ("'Breasts are noble parts of the anatomy,' said Raelian Priestess Nadine Gary")
here. The related slide shows are
kind of week, so
go to one of ours instead.