They did not object to Christian groups receiving support. The uproar over the cloning of a sheep in Scotland is a tempest in a test tube. Every ethicist and theologian has felt the need to comment. We already have cloned humans. We call them twins.
Genetic twins raised in the same womb are very different.
They even have different fingerprints. We can expect wide differences between twins raised in different wombs and different generations. Still it's fun to think about. The experts included hors Isaac Asimov and Andrew Greeley, and Nobel chemist Willard Libby. While the nature of predictions of the two groups was different, neither performed very well.