National Polygamy Advocate

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed on Scarborough Country , hosted by Joe Scarborough on MSNBC , on March 28, 2006.   Talking about the groundbreaking premiere of HBO's "Big Love," fictional series about Mormon Polygamists, two other guests also appreared in this segment, Megan Basham of Townhall.com and Dina Sansing of US Weekly .  The former, as a writer for...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Jennifer Dobner for the Associated Press (the AP newswire), on June 3, 2006.  This interview referenced the June 5, 2006, cover of same sex magazine, The Advocate , headlined as "Polygamy and Gay Men."  That article led to the AFA.net calling for a boycott of Ford for its ad on the back cover.  That was followed by a conser...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Stephanie Baker of NBC 17 WNCN-TV of Raleigh, North Carolina, conducted via satellite in the studio of NBC 6 WCSH-TV in Portland, Maine, on November 29, 2007.  The pre-interview occurred on November 7, 2007, with the follow-up call on the next day.  The recording did not pick up the audio of the reporter's questions in the final...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Jon Chrisos of CBS WGME-TV 13 (and FOX23 WPFO-TV ) of Portland, Maine, on April 21, 2016.  This additonal interview came right after an interview in the WGME studios, hired and used by the reporter Andrew Hasbun for FOX 10 Phoenix KSAZ-TV , in Phoenix Arizona.  Becuase he was sitting through it to monitor Hasbun's interview of M...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Andrew Hasbun for FOX 10 Phoenix KSAZ-TV, in Phoenix Arizona, on April 21, 2016.  This was recorded in the Portland Maine studio of CBS affiliate WGME-TV 13 (and same owner of Maine's FOX23 WFPO-TV there too). Local Maine TV journalist, Jon Chrisos , oversaw and stood by while Arizona reporter, Andrew Hasbun , asked his questions of...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel gave these EXTRA SOUNDBITES for FOX 10 Phoenix KSAZ-TV , in Phoenix Arizona, broadcast on May 24, 2016. The actual report contained clips from a taped interview conducted in the (hired by KSAZ-TV ) television network studio of CBS WGME-TV 13 in Portland Maine on April 21, 2016.  Coming from that interview, these extra soundbites were announced and post...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was on FOX 10 Phoenix KSAZ-TV, in Phoenix Arizona, broadcast on May 24, 2016. The report contained clips from a taped interview conducted in the (hired by KSAZ-TV ) television network studio of CBS WGME-TV 13 in Portland Maine on April 21, 2016.  While everything else was accurate, this  FOX 10 Phoenix TV news report did make two small mistakes. T...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Jennifer Dobner for the Associated Press (the AP newswire), on May 18, 2006.  Two days earlier, on May 16, 2006, the State Supreme Court of Utah had decided the Utah v. Holm case.  Mark Henkel offered the following soundbite, "National Polygamy organization says the decision criminalizes free speech."  On Page 12, Paragraph...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed for Fox News by Andrew O'Reilly , on September 4, 2019.  Earlier that week, Utah State Senator Deidre Hederson announced that she would be proposing a new bill in the coming January 2020 session to reduce the crime of polygamy from a felony to an infraction (i.e., equivalent to a parking ticket).  The purpose of the proposed bill w...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Jeff Inglis, the Managing Editor for The Portland Phoenix newspaper, in Portland, Maine, on April 30, 2009.  In the previous week, on April 22, 2009, the Maine State Legislature had conducted a Public Hearing on a pending law to legalize same sex marriage.  4,000 people attended this major event, including Mark Henkel who presen...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed on August 15, 2006, by Dan Lattin , a freelance writer for various publications who had formerly been the Religion Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and its Sunday Magazine .  Published by Harper Collins , the writer is also an author of books about religion, faith, and spirituality.  (See DonLattin.com .) This interview occur...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by reporter Katja Gelinsky for the German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung  ( FAZ.de), on February 27, 2007.  The name as translated (from German to English) is "Frankfurt General Newspaper." This 45-minute interview provides a comprehensive education about the UCAP movement ( Unrelated Consenting Adult Polygamy ), Christi...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by reporter Chloe Johnson for Foster's Sunday Citizen , of Foster's Daily Democrat , of Dover, New Hampshire, on May 3, 2007.  Just the previous week, on April 26, 2007, both houses of the New Hampshire State Legislature had passed a new same sex civil unions law.  For an article that she was preparing for the Sunday newspaper, the...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by reporter Kimberly Trobee for Family News in Focus , the news division of James Dobson's Focus on the Famlly , in Colorado Sperings, Colorado, on March 14, 2006. This was the second of 2 interviews he gave that day for a subsequent report.  The reporter was friendly and positive.  She had 3 follow-up questions to ask.  Knowi...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by reporter Kimberly Trobee for Family News in Focus , the news division of James Dobson's Focus on the Family , in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on March 14, 2006.  This was the first of 2 interviews he gave that day for a subsequent on-air report.  The reporter was friendly and positive.  Knowing that this media was serving an...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed on Keeler in the Morning , hosted by Bill Keeler (and entourage), on WXUR, 92.7 The Drive , in Utica, New York, on January 12, 2010, to discuss issues pertaining to polygamy.  While also being humorous for the show, the host and entourage were consistently positive.  Because the town of Oneida, New York, is nearby to the station, t...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Harriet Pleming for the BBC , in London, England, on March 24, 2003.  Having previously given an interview a few months beforehand with a different BBC journalist, Mark Henkel was glad to help the BBC in their continuing research into the new movement of Christian Polygamy and the TruthBearer.org organization.  Mark Henkel expla...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Westwood One's MetroNetworks' MetroSource Radio News Wire, on August 24, 2001.   Criminal Tom Green, a rogue variant of Mormon Polygamist, had been sentenced for his convicted crimes.  Mark Henkel explained that Tom Green received a 5-year sentence for the charge of criminal non-support, while each of the four remaining 5-y...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed on Bulldog Live on The Pulse, WTPL 107.7 FM, with host Brian Tilton, in Manchester, New Hampshire, on June 10, 2009.  A week earlier, the New Hampshire Governor had signed a then-new same sex marriage bill into law - one of the first few States to do so (following after Maine doing so the month before). The non-liberal host asked Mark H...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed on the "OPEN COURT: Bloom & Politan" television show with hosts Lisa Bloom and Vinnie Politan, on Court TV (the predecessor to TruTV ), on Feburary 14, 2007, to discuss the trial of Arizona v. Bateman.  The interview followed the playing of actual testimony of the trial, directly involving members of the FLDS cult led led by crimina...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Elise Soukup , for Newsweek magazine, on March 2, 2006, for an article later published in the March 20, 2006, issue, titled, "Polygamists, Unite!"  This 90-minute interview provided a comprehensive education of the principles and history of Christian Polygamy, the standard of Love-not-Force, the movement of UCAP, Unrelated Consenting...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Kim Bonney , for The 700 Club , on CBN , the Christian Broadcasting Network , in Washington DC, on June 28, 2005, for a report that was broadcast on August 16, 2005, titled, "Polygamy: The Next 'Right' to be Legalized?"   The report also aired on other networks on which The 700 Club was being broadcast, including TBN ( Trinity B...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Rasheed Oluwa, for The Poughkeepsie Journal , in Poughkeepsie, New York, on April 16, 2003, for an article published on April 28, 2003, titled, "In marriage, three's a crowd -- and a crime." That article was written for a "Crime Beat" section of the newspaper, regarding a local story of a man (who had not yet divorced one wife before marr...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed on Waking Up with the Wolf , on WPYX 106.5 FM, in Albany, New York, on January 18, 2010.  The show was hosted by Bob “Wolf” Wohlfeld along with co-hosts named as Lovee, Ellen, and Mickey.  This somewhat jovial interview addresses many of the common quesitons about UCAP, Unrelated Consenting Adult Polygamy. http://www. NationalPolyg...

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed for The Boston Herald by Jessica Heslam , in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 9, 2006.  The new fictional TV show called, "Big Love," had been successfully running on HBO during the previous weeks - so successfully that the network had then reported its authorization to begin recording for a second season.  The interview with this rep...