National Polygamy Advocate

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was interviewed by Elizabeth Ranz for UCSD, on May 28, 2009, Part 1, for an essay she was writing, "Polygamy in Contradistinction to Gay Marriage."  The student writer from University of California San Diego was seeking to learn how and why polygamy was not having the same level of political popularity as same sex marriage.  In this Part 1 segment of the positive, educational interview, in order to build a foundation for his set of comprehensive answers to that main question, Mark Henkel opened by detailing the US Supreme Court's decision of Reynolds V. United States in 1878.  He established four background points under which he would make his arguments.  Anti-polygamy laws are unconstitutional in the States under the Tenth Amendment. The Reynolds case was only affirming an 1862 law where the federal government is only allowed authority under the "jurisdictional management" clause for non-State territories (Article 4, Section, 3, Paragraph 2).  

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 15 (the final one) of the second post-interview.  It all stems from an article that the writer had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January, 2008. After the article had contained many negativities that needed to be corrected, Mark Henkel requested of the writer to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008, to which she agreed. They both also agreed to have a second post-interview later, which was conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the fifteenth part of that second discussion - the last and final episode of the post-interviews with this writer.  Mark Henkel re-iterated how had been trying to protect the writer’s credibility.   He had done everything he could to help her make an accurate and non-hostile article.  Unfortunately, the write

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 14 (the next-to-last one) of the second post-interview.  It all stems from an article that the writer had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January, 2008. After the article had contained many negativities that needed to be corrected, Mark Henkel requested of the writer to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008; and, she agreed. They both also agreed to have a second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the fourteenth part of that second discussion.   This Part 14 segment is a very short episode (on purpose), as Mark Henkel re-iterated the problem of the writer's article misrepresenting polygamy, as preparation for the conclusion of all of the 15 parts of this post-interview. That last and final remaining part of

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 13 of the second post-interview.  It all stems from an article that the writer had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January, 2008. After the article had contained many negativities that needed to be corrected, Mark Henkel requested of the writer to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008.  She agreed. The two also agreed to have a second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the thirteenth part of that second discussion.   In this Part 13 segment, Mark Henkel explained that, if the writer was still going to incolude two irrelevant sites, she should add the details that identify those facts about their irrelevance.  The writer was more focused on saying, "Next point?"  The remaining parts of the seco

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 12 of the second post-interview.  It all stems from an article that the writer had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January, 2008. After the article had contained many negativities that needed to be corrected, Mark Henkel requested of the writer to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008.  She agreed. The two also agreed to have a second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the twelfth part of that second discussion.   In this Part 12 segment, Mark Henkel explained why the writer was undermining her credibility by listing other non-credible polygamy personals sites. He also explained the "Hobson's Choice" that the writer was imposing on him regarding the one and only polygamy personals website with verified

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 11 of the second post-interview - and it is aery short one, relative to other episodes of this podcast.  The reason for the shortness of this episode is two-fold.  First, it shows how insulting the writer presented herself as she rudely went from "Next" to "Next" in her processing of point corrections.  Second, it demonstrates an issue that had become a problem at that time: a force polygamist who was undermining the movement (with his force polygamy views) by labelling himself with a title of "Pastor" in order to pretend that he had more credibility than he possessed, so that manufactured news corporations would falsely quote him as if he was a qualified representative of the Christian Polygamy movement (which he was not).  It all stems from an article that the writer had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews s

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 10 of the second post-interview. It follows after an article she had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January, 2008. After the article had contained many negativities that needed to be corrected, Mark Henkel requested of the writer to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008 - to which she agreed. The two also agreed to have a second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the tenth part of that second discussion. In this Part 10 segment, Mark Henkel clarified a reference that had been attributed to a deputy sheriff.  Mark Henkel noted that that man was only familiar with Mormon Polygamy and that the man knew nothing about any other forms of UCAP, Unrelated Consenting Adult Polygamy.  The writer declared, "Next!"  Th

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 9 of the second post-interview. It follows after an article she had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January of that year. The article contained many negativities to be corrected. So, the writer agreed to Mark Henkel’s request to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008. She and Mark Henkel also agreed to have a second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the nineth part of that second discussion. In this Part 9 segment, the writer sarcastically asserted, “Ok, what are your other points. Let’s go!” After a calm pause, Mark Henkel began; he proceeded by making a correction to a statement from the writer’s article that claimed that "taking multiple wives is essential for them." Mark Henkel explained that, while it might be so for

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 8 of the second post-interview. It follows after an article she had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January of that year. The article contained many negativities to be corrected. So, the writer agreed to Mark Henkel’s request to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008. She and Mark Henkel also agreed to have a second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the eighth part of that second discussion. In this Part 8 segment, the writer repeatedly pretended, "I am listening to you, Mark."  As her actions and choices revealed that her actions were not matching up with the pretended assertion, Mark Henkel exposed that outright gaslighting by continuing to repeat, "I am pleading wiith you to listen, but you're not listening."  

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 7 of the second post-interview. It follows after an article she had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January of that year. The article contained many negativities to be corrected. So, the writer agreed to Mark Henkel’s request to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008. She and Mark Henkel also agreed to have a second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the seventh part of that second discussion. In this Part 7 segment, the writer continued to pretend she was being kind while she was instead, as Mark Henkel again said to her, "You're stepping on me." Mark Henkel continued to try to give her the education on the topic, yet the writer refused to listen while pretending she was doing so. As the writer claimed, "This is ridiculous

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 6 of the second post-interview. It follows after an article she had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January of that year. The article contained many negativities to be corrected. So, the writer agreed to Mark Henkel’s request to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008. She and Mark Henkel also agreed to have a second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the sixth part of that second discussion. In this Part 6 segment, Mark repeatedly clarified that, not one thing but, a number of different things had happened over the course of 2006 and 2007 which were all contributory to the growth of the movement, of his organization’s membership, and of its website’s hits. The writer kept trying to suggest the growth was exclusively connect

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 5 of the second post-interview. It follows after an article she had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January of that year. The article contained many negativities to be corrected. So the writer agreed to Mark Henkel’s request to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008. She and Mark Henkel also agreed to have a second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the fifth part of that second discussion.  In this Part 5 segment, Mark noted how the writer’s article had got specific details incorrect. He differentiated the issue of experts from the “committee called ‘they,’” that the growth of 2Wives.com or his organization’s membership was not connected to the criminal Warren Jeffs, and how 2007 is not 2006.  The writer accepted

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008. This is Part 4 of the second post-interview. It follows after an article she had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January of that year. The article contained many negativities to be corrected. So the writer agreed to Mark Henkel’s request to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008. She and Mark Henkel also agreed to have second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008. This episode is the fourth part of that second discussion.  In this Part 4 segment, Mark Henkel noted how the writer was "stepping on" him for continuously repeating that she was going to remove both mentions of "sister site" and "2Wives.com" from an edited version of the article. Mark Henkel repeatedly told her that it was only the "sister site" reference, not the other reference to "2Wives

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani for Columbia News Service, on March 4, 2008.  This is Part 3 of the second post-interview.  It follows after an article she had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January of that year.  As the article contained many negativities to be corrected, the writer agreed to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008.  She and Mark Henkel also agreed to have second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008.  This episode is the third part of that second discussion.   In this Part 3 segment, the writer began asking whether Mark Henkel wanted to be taken out of the article.  She asked the same “question” regarding the mention of the 2Wives.com website.  Mark Henkel repeatedly explained that it was only the “sister site” reference but not the actual 2Wives.com site that needed t

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani on March 4, 2008, following an article she had written as a student for the Columbia News Service, from interviews she had conducted with Mark Henkel earlier in January of that year.  (This is Part 2 of that second post-interview.)  Because the article contained many negativities that needed to be corrected, the writer agreed to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008.  She and Mark Henkel also agreed to have second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008.  This episode is the second part of the second discussion.  In this segment, the writer had begun to demonstrate that she was not all that positive toward Mark Henkel after all, responding to Mark Henkel’s professional expertise with statements such as “I don’t know that” – such an assertion which no unbiased journalist would ever make back to any interviewee.  For confirmations, the writer repeated ba

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed a second time by Zehra Mamdani on March 4, 2008, for an article she would write as a student for the Columbia News Service.  (This is Part 1 of that second post-interview.)  After interviewing Mark Henkel in January of that year, the writer subsequently published an article on February 19, 2008, distributed to many other news sources.  Because the article contained many negativities that needed to be corrected, the writer agreed to conduct an initial post-interview on February 26, 2008.  She and Mark Henkel also agreed to have second post-interview later, which they conducted on March 4, 2008.  This episode is the first part of the second discussion. This second post-interview opened with the writer addressing how another writer had chopped up her article which she said was “unjournalistic.” Following with mutual agreement with Mark Henkel on that point, the writer then proceeded to ask Mark Henkel to identify points in her

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed by Zehra Mamdani for an article she wrote as a student for the Columbia News Service, on February 26, 2008 - Part 5.  After interviewing Mark Henkel in the previous month, the writer subsequently published an article on February 19, 2008, distributed to many other news sources.  Mark Henkel and the National Polygamy Rights Movement for Unrelated Consenting Adults were blind-sided: the writer's article contained many negativities that needed to be corrected.  This episode is the fifth and final part of the first discussion in which Mark Henkel sought to help the writer make needed corrections.  The writer and Mark Henkel both agreed to have another discussion days later; that second post-interview will be aired in the next coming episodes of this podcast. http://www.NationalPolygamyAdvocate.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalpolygamyadvocate/support

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed by Zehra Mamdani for an article she wrote as a student for the Columbia News Service, on February 26, 2008 - Part 4.  After interviewing Mark Henkel in the previous month, the writer subsequently published an article on February 19, 2008, distributed to many other news sources.  Mark Henkel and the National Polygamy Rights Movement for Unrelated Consenting Adults awere blind-sided: the writer's article contained many negativities that needed to be corrected.  This episode is the fourth part of the discussion in which Mark Henkel sought to help the writer make needed corrections.  In this episode, Mark Henkel addressed the problem of the article elevating two topical non-authorities, all of which poses a threat to the movement of unrelated consenting adult polygamy (UCAP).  One of the ones so elevated had even been quoted using Mark Henkel's own unique style of terminology.  The writer replied that that shows that the g

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed by Zehra Mamdani for an article she wrote as a student for the Columbia News Service, on February 26, 2008 - Part 3. After interviewing in the previous month, the writer subsequently published an article on February 19, 2008, distributed to many other news sources. Blind-siding the National Polygamy Rights Movement for Unrelated Consenting Adults as well as Mark Henkel himself, the writer's article contained many negativities that needed to be corrected. This episode is the third part of the discussion in which Mark Henkel sought to help the writer make needed corrections. In this episode, Mark Henkel even provided contrast that he had recently undertaken a positive project for a major television news magazine show, about which he would not yet name drop at that time (until after it aired); it was the show, "John Stossel Special on 20/20," which aired on ABC in July 18, 2008. As for her own article, the writer was self-convinced that she thought th

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was post-interviewed by Zehra Mamdani for an article she wrote as a student for the Columbia News Service, on February 26, 2008 - Part 2.  After interviewing in the previous month, Mark Henkel, the writer subsequently published an article, "Polygamists Hit the Web in Search of 'Sister Wives'" on February 19, 2008, that was also picked up by many other news sources. Blind-siding the National Polygamy Rights Movement for Unrelated Consenting Adults as well as Mark Henkel himself, the writer's article contained many negativities that needed to be corrected. This episode is the second part of the discussion in which Mark Henkel sought to help the writer make needed corrections. The writer stated her opinion that she did not think neutral readers would find things negatively. Mark Henkel noted how anti-polygamists routinely look to twist things that he has said. He explained that it was important to correct for accuracy because (as he concluded this Part 2): "I know th