The week of March 12, 2006 began a lot of media attention for polygamy activism. The new television show, "Big Love," premiered on pay TV channel, HBO on March 12, 2006, at 10:00 pm EST. This show about a Mormon Polygamist family - i.e., NOT Christian Polygamists - was the first time any TV series was premised on any form of polygamous family. The next day, the March 13, 2006 online version of an article in the March 20, 2006 issue of Newsweek reported about the "Christian evangelical polygamy organization, TruthBearer.org." That article also quoted the Founder, Mark Henkel, in saying his well-established sound-bite, "Polygamy rights is the next civil rights battle."

The day after that, on Tuesday, March 14, 2006, at about 12:30 pm EST, a reporter named, Kimberly Trobee, emailed a media request to the TruthBearer.org organization. She was putting together a report for Family News in Focus, the news department of James Dobson's Focus on the Family. In her urgent plea, Ms. Trobee indicated that her deadline would expire in three hours.

National Polygamy Advocate and Founder of the Christian Polygamy organization, TruthBearer.org, Mark Henkel, decided to personally help them as quickly as possible. Having no other interviews or appointments at that precise moment, he called Ms. Trobee back right away and granted the interview himself.

The interview went extremely positively. Here is the transcript from that first interview.

Interview #1 transcript

KT: Hi. This is Kim Trobee. MH: Hello, Kim. This is Mark Henkel with TruthBearer.org. KT: Hi, Mark! How are you? MH: I'm doing very well. We received a media request from you to speak with us about polygamy. KT: Yes! Am I going to be interviewing YOU? MH: Yes, you will. I did want to say, however, before we begin, that this is being recorded and wanted to make sure you understood that and accepted it. KT: Yep. Definitely. I'm going to record you too. MH: Certainly. KT: [Friendly laugh.] MH: That sounds super. KT: Ok. Let me just transfer you to that line. MH: Sure! KT: And we'll talk for a couple minutes. MH: That sounds wonderful. KT: Good. MH: Sure! [Two in-line telephone rings.] KT: All right. Mark, can you hear me well? MH: I certainly can. Could you please identify the news source and what your relationship is with it? KT: Sure. I am a reporter for Family News in Focus, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Ok, and you're Mark Henkel, H-e-n-k-e-l, Founder of TruthBearer.org? MH: Correct. KT: Ok. First of all, Mark, I want you to tell me what the basic goal is of TruthBearer.org. MH: First, we are Christians. We are the non-newbie Christians in all the Churches - from Baptists to Pentecostals, to super Grace-based, to super Law-based - that study the Bible and understand that there is an extreme contradiction between what the leaders have said and what the Bible explicitly says about marriage. And so, we are a cross-denominational, para-church support, supporting individuals and pastors that come to this realization that the Bible does not support the Catholic invention of "one man, one woman" as a doctrine - especially using the false god of big socialist government to define the doctrine of God. KT: Ok. The next thing. I - can you give me some Scriptures that back up what you're saying. MH: Well, certainly. First of all, the word, "adultery" as it appears in Exodus 20 verse 14 was not written in English. And the definition has been changed, just as similarly the word, "gay," has been changed. If you said the "gay '90s" in the 1890s, it would mean something completely different from what it later meant in the 1990s. "Adultery," when it was originally written was written in Hebrew. And the Hebrew word is "na`aph," which means "a woman who breaks wedlock." So, when a man marries more than one wife, as long as she is not another man's wife, no woman is breaking her wedlock. Hence, no adultery. MH (cont'd): And that's why, just 22 verses later,in Exodus 21:10, it says, "If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish." And even later on, in Deuteronomy 21:15, it begins with, "If a man have two wives." MH (cont'd): Now, this is in the Law. Now, we're not saying that we're under the Law, because, as Christians, we're under the New Covenant. But, by the Law, we know what is sin. And if it [(polygamy)] was a sin, it would not be in the Law. MH (cont'd): As well, Adam and Eve, the story of Adam and Eve, there are three reasons why that is not a doctrine for use on the "one man, one woman" - especially using government for it. MH (cont'd): The first is, of course, that it is a speculation of doctrine, when you come to the realization that both Seth and Cain - their [(Adam's and Eve's)] children - married wives. Those wives were either their sisters born of Eve or sisters born of other wives [(of Adam)]. We don't know. It is speculation. Now we're not laying down a doctrine either way, but the point is that it is still speculation either way. MH (cont'd): Two, they were never - Adam and Eve were never married "by government." In fact, nobody in the Bible was ever married by the false god of big socialist government. If you say marriage is only defined by government, then you've just called every married person in the Bible as a fornicator. God forbid. MH (cont'd): Thirdly, the story of Adam and Eve, as well as the "one flesh" verse of Genesis 2:24, and numerous other doctrines that are derived from the first five books of the Bible are written by Moses. We all agree with that. MH (cont'd): Moses had two wives. Now, clearly, an author knows what he wrote when he meant something. And if the Adam and Eve story is going to be used, then you have to realize who wrote that story. A polygamist wrote that story. A polygamist would not write a story that imposes a doctrine that is in direct contradiction with his own life. And, we know that Moses was the meekest man man on the face of the earth, according to the Bible. MH (cont'd): So, that's just - some examples. MH (cont'd): We also see 2_Samuel 12:8, where David is being reproved by the prophet Nathan, for taking another man's wife - that's truly adultery - and for killing Uriah the Hittite. But as God says this, and comes down against David in 2_Samuel 12:8, he makes it clear that God Himself said He would have given David even more wives if David had wanted. God took responsiblity for giving David all his wives, because at that point, he had at least six - eight, eight named, known wives at that time. And God said He had given him those wives and would have given him even more if David had wanted. But what David did was, he took another man's wife and had him killed. And that was what the problem was with the whole Bathsheba situation. MH (cont'd): You also have Jeremiah 3. The Lord God Himself describes Himself as polygamously married. He does it again in Ezekiel 23. And even our Savior Lord Jesus Christ, in Matthew 25, in the Parable of the Ten Virgins, describes Himself as coming to marry the five wise vrigins. Now, some try to suggest that those virgins are "bridesmaids," but that's theologically unsound, because, when a Wedding is over, the bridesmaids leave. But the brides are with the Husband forever. The theological position of that story of Jesus coming to marry His brides is that we're going to be with Him forever. And the brides are with the Bridegroom forever, so that is an impossibility to call them "bridesmaids." MH (cont'd): So, because we have all this, if polygamy was a sin, then neither Jesus Christ nor the Lord God the Father Himself would have described Himself this way. God would not have, not only not have taken responsibility for giving David's wives, but even said He would have given him more, all of these things come together, compounded with Moses himself being a polygamist with two wives, writing all the various things in the first five books of the Bible, clearly makes it obvious that anti-polygamy is an invention. And it is not found in the Bible. MH (cont'd): And the problem we now have - with the ongoing debate for the biological impossibility of "same sex marriage" - is that anti-polygamy is what is the true slippery slope that led us to this ridiculous idea of legalizing the biological impossibility of "same sex marriage." KT: Tell me a little bit about what you're trying to accomplish. I know that you're going to be - I don't know if you are specifically, but I'm wanting to talk with Brian Barnard who is a lawyer for a couple in Utah, and he's going to use the Lawrence v. Texas decision - the sodomy case - to rule that private conduct without government intervention should also apply to polygamous relationships. Talk to me a little bit about what's ahead for the polygamy movement. MH: Well, first, it has to be understood that a neutral noun is not modified by its absent adjective. Meaning that, just as the word "day" is a neutral word, it is different if you put the adjective that says "rainy day" or if you add another adjective that says "sunny day." "Sunny day" and "rainy day" are two completely different things. You can't say it's all about "days" because each day is different. MH (cont'd): The same thing is true about the paradigms of - and presuppositions of - why people participate in a polygamous relationship. MH (cont'd): Mormon Polygamy is based on the whole Mormon inventions of imaginitive religious ideas, starting with the whole "Doctrines and Covenants," and all that. Christian Polygamy, when you put the word "Christian" in front of "polygamy," it is a brand new movement that has begun in 1994, and exploded with the advent of the internet. It means purely the Bible-believing Christians, in all the different churches, who have come to this realization and understand that husbands are supposed to be growing up and truly being men of God and truly caring about women and nurturing women. MH (cont'd): And here we are in a current culture of marriage-phobic "baby daddies." And that's a consequence of the ridiculous enforcement of "one man, one woman" - instead of creating a free market incentive for men to grow up and be the best they could possibly be and really care about women and really want to nurture women. Now, that's not to say that everybody's going to be polygamous. But just as you've got the freedom - everyone has the freedom - to make $500 million dollars, that doesn't mean that everyone's going to. But if everyone knows they have the incentive to excel to that, then excellence emerges. That's free market principles as true conservatives believe. MH (cont'd): So, from the polygamy movement itself, you have to understand, there is Mormon Polygamy, Christian Polygamy, and other forms such as Muslim Polygamy, and so forth. We are, as Christians, "Continuing the Reformation." Basically, it's, first, as Christians, it's first about the Truth. It's not about anything else [(first)] but we believe the Truth because the Word of God is the Word of God. Hallelujah! And that's our first and foremost, as Christians: to believe, and to help others understand. And that's what we're doing. Let's not be in hypocrisy about what we say when we say we believe the Bible. [(PAUSE.)] MH (cont'd): Then, as we also encourage men to grow up and be real men, it also allows us an opportunity to help in this cultural tragedy of abandoned single moms. And ultimately, that's where most of the situations of practicing Christian Polygamous families arise, is in the ministerial coming together of helping abandoned single moms and their children - actually providing a better situation than within the context of this poor woman being a hamster-in-a-wheel trap of working just to pay for daycare or going on welfare. So, this is a ministerial thing as well as building a consituency, so that, legislatively, it's understood. MH (cont'd): There are different kinds of polygamy, and you can't ban all kinds of polygamy. You can go to the root problems that some paradigms may have, but polygamy - as a general word - cannot be fully banned. MH (cont'd): And the three cases that we have - Supreme Court-wise - would be the Romer v. Evans case of '96, the Lawrence v. Texas case of 2003, and now, the wonderful new case that just took place February 21st, the O Centra Espirita case: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that established that government has the burden to prove it has a compelling interest and that allowing exceptions to that [(total ban)] cannot be - it basically a has a double [(two-fold)] standard. It has to prove both, that the government has a reason to ban it all - which government would not be able to do - and it has to prove that it can't allow certain exceptions. MH (cont'd): Once you realize that Christian Polygamy is a ministerial, giving situation - especially with what we call the "Standard" of love-not-force, and you can see that at LoveNotForce.com, that's the "Standard of Christian Polygamy" - once you understand that it's actually a giving and helping both for the women and society and for children, and it's the "ultra-family" and truly the incentive of caring, then you realize that government will never possibly be able to argue that forbidding that exception [(of Christian Polygamy)] would not be allowed. MH (cont'd): So, with these three cases, clearly, the anti-polygamy laws will be overturned. KT: Ok, now, let me see if I understand what you're saying. You're saying that this could be a solution for single moms? MH: Absolutely. Totally. KT: ...By bringing them in to polygamous families and taking care of them and their children. MH: Well, let's stop at the - have you heard the phrase, "All of the good men are taken?" It's a pretty common phrase. KT: Yes. MH: There is a scarcity of really good men. And we're talking about good men here, and men that really grow and really care and really encourage women to be the best that they want to be. Some women want to stay home with children. Other women want to work. It's an option. It's a choice of what they would like to do. This provides that option, and provides the incentive for men to grow up and to care - instead of this current culture of "dumbed down males" of marriage-phobic boys and "baby daddies." Instead, what we have is an incentive for men to grow up to be capable, whether it happens or not, but capable of attracting and helping and nurturing more than one wife - not because it's about him but because it's about helping as a family and growing and truly being the model as Ephesians 5:22-25 is the true intention of God for marriage, of Christ and His Churches. KT: Have some of the recent decisions in favor of gay marriage helped the polygamy movement, though? MH: Notwithstanding that, we are evangelical Christians, so notwithstandiung that, truly, the Bible is very clear on the sin of the biological impossiblity of "same sex marriage." And it's biologically impossible because coitus is impossible for homosexuals practicing together. And, the fact that God is very clear about it being a sin. MH (cont'd): Notwithstanding that, they [(the Court Decsions)] clearly do establish that, when it comes from that perspective, that there is no way you can use those precedents to accept the biological impossibility of "same sex marriage" and then equally deny the good, nurturing concept of Christian Polygamy. There's no way you can do that. There's just no sound logic whatsoever. MH (cont'd): With that said, we're not just simply trying to, and we're definitely not trying to push or promote on the homosexual agenda whatsoever. The point being, we say that actually our argument is the answer to the problem of "same sex marriage." MH (cont'd): Because: what we're saying is that, today's leaders, sadly, unfortunately, have gone the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat. They are leading God's people into idolatry. You don't fight liberalism with liberalism. You don't fight homosexuality with with the sin of idolatry, because both sinners go to Hell. According to Revelation 21:8, all idolators shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. MH (cont'd): So, when you turn to the false god of big socialist government to define a doctrine that God never needed government to define - MH (cont'd): We don't have a Federal Gospel licensing Amendment. God forbid. MH (cont'd): We don't have a Federal Baptism licensing Amendment. God forbid. MH (cont'd): And we certainly shouldn't have a Federal Marriage Amendment. It's just as abominable a concept of using the big liberal government to define God's doctrine. Because once you let government define it one way, you've authorized it to define it another way. MH (cont'd): The Bible I read, the book of Revelation I read says that the biggest threat to us Christians is not the biological impossibility of "same sex marriage" and all that imaginary idea. It says that the "beast" is the biggest threat to us. And the ability to have that kind of social engineering power over all the world, to execute the war against the saints, that is what we should be fearing [(as a threat)]. MH (cont'd): And so, every time we establish a precedent that justifies using big government for social engineering - and make no mistake, the big government marriage amendment is social engineering - one way or another, you have given another justification for the "beast," as it builds upon its precedents, to have the power to execute the saints and, ultimately, the marriage amendment could have the blood of the saints on its hands. MH (cont'd): But beyond that, the way to stop the legalization of "same sex marriage" is to get government out of it altogether, because, when government is no longer abominating God's doctrine of marriage, and is no longer involved in it whatsoever, what do the homosexuals have at that point? Nothing. They have nothing but a vain imagination. They have nothing. MH (cont'd): And that's the true limited government, true conservative, Constitutionalist, Christian principle - getting government out of the business of social engineering. Because: the government that can be liberally used for Christian social engineering can later be used and considered authorized to and justified to be used against Christians. God forbid. The best way is limited govermment and get government from having any power either way. KT: Ok, Mark. Thanks s much for your time today. That was great. MH: Super. When would this be appearing? KT: Ah, let's see. Probably in the next couple of days. I've already recorded the story for tomorrow. MH: Ok. KT: So, it will probably be either Thursday or Friday. MH: Ok. KT: And you can go to Family.org MH: Mm-hm. KT: And down on the left side of the page, MH: Ok. KT: It'll say, "Family News in Focus." MH: Right. KT: And you cick on it there, and it should come up there. MH: So, it'll be a written report? KT: This might be on - if you get it within about 24 to 48 hours of when it goes on the air MH: Mm-hm. KT: It'll also be a recorded version, as well. MH: I see. Would it be possible for you to trigger an email to me when you know it's coming out - you know, a head's up, to look for it? KT: Let me make myself a note because I'm not always sure when the producers do the stories. MH: I understand. I do. [Laugh.] KT: I'll make a note. MH: Sure. And I'm sure that, as we go forward, we are truly, we're the "ultra-family," and truly pro-family, evangelical Christians, that I'm sure that, as Family News in Focus and Focus on the Family, you're going to want to talk with us again in the future, for sure. KT: Ok. I will keep you on my list. MH: Super. I appreciate it. You have a wonderful, God-blessed day. KT: Thank you, Mark. You too. MH: Thank you, now. B'bye. KT: Bye.

Soon afterward, while Mark Henkel was making a number of preparations for a television interview scheduled for the next day, Ms. Trobee emailed back a second urgent request for further information. Always glad to share information with a positive fellow evangelical Christian, the Founder was glad to call her back as soon as he could.

Kim Trobee's questions in the second interview were more about personal applications and how women can benefit from choosing polygamy. Just as happened in the previous call, the second interview also went extremely positively. Here is the transcript from that second interview.

Interview #2 transcript

KT: Hey Mark. MH: Hello there. How are you doing? KT: [Friendly laugh.] I'm good. Thanks for calling me back. MH: Super. KT: Let me just transfer you back over there for a second, and we'll just talk, ok? MH: That sounds good to me. KT: Thanks. MH: Sure. [Pause.] KT: Ok, back with Mark Henkel. Mark, I needed to know if you're a practicing polygamist right now. MH: As the National Polygamy Advocate, I have got my name out there as that. And because of that, it puts me at great risk. So, I do not answer that question about my family - for their safey. KT: Ok. Is it illegal in the United States right now to have a polygamous family? MH: Well, there are different laws. There are different laws in every state. And some states are so tyrannical that just expressing that more than one woman is your wife [A phone rings in background] is, can be considered the guilt of crime. Not every state has that, of course. So, basically, it's a state to state issue. It is really equivalent to - [Pause] let me back up. Most polygamous families are the situation where the first wife may be legally married already. And an additional wife will not have a legal marriage license, because we're all - I think I made it clear that marriage is not defined by government anyway [Laugh], as our paradigm. KT: Right. MH: So, it is not a breaking of bigamy laws in terms of having a multiple marriage license. Do you follow that difference? KT: I do. MH: So, from the perspective of many, many governments is merely the ridiculous idea of the unbiblical idea that it's a married man with a live-in "girlfriend," that the wife agrees. KT: Ok. Now I gotta ask you this, because I'm just trying to think through all of these things. MH: Sure. KT: Because it doesn't seem like the women have the best luck [An incoming call-beep is heard]. You see what I'm saying? It seems like, from my perspective, and my view, and the way I'm raised MH: Right. KT: I think [A second incoming call-beep is heard] this is a great situation for a man. He can have three wives. He can have sex with them whenever he wants to, that's great. But what does the woman get from this? MH: Well, that is a stereotypical indoctrination, and I have no criticism of you for having that at all, please understand that. KT: Thank you. [Friendly, appreciative laugh.] MH: None whatsoever. We are completely sympathetic to the indoctrination of culture upon a person that causes you to suspect that stereotype. That's not a correct stereotype, however. It's not all about the man. Actually, it's about the women. If you just, actually, stop for a moment, and break out of the box, and think for a moment [A phone rings in background again], multiple women, uh - actually, can I put you on hold for a second? KT: Sure, that's just fine. Go ahead. MH: Ok. [Pause, on hold.] MH: Ok. Hello? KT: I'm right here. MH: Super. Ok, I'm back. I'm sorry about that. KT: That's ok. MH: [Continuing point from before] If you put multiple - consider the idea of a modern Christian man that is truly a loving, caring man. And you have more than one intelligent Christian woman together in one family. Do you really think that those intelligent women are incapable of making sure their rights are not protected? Do you really think that it's this ridiculous stereotype of a chest-pounding man dictating everything that's going to go down on that? If anything, they're going to gang up on him, as women can and do. It's a sisterhood, if you will, of bonding. It allows one who wants to go to work - and that's what she chooses to do and wants to do - and she can know that her children are being raised by another woman in the family who loves the children just as much, and rearing them. And the wife that stays home, that's what she gets to do because that's her choice. And everybody's able to grow. So, if you step out of the stereotype and realize, that's just not going to happen. It's not going to happen. So, there are numerous stuff. It's really more about the women than the men, after all. Seriously. KT: Ok. All right. That's what I needed to know, sir. MH: I am so glad to be able to of help. And certainly, we want people to know, this is not part of any of the foolishness and fleshly garbage that's out there. That's all complete stereotypes. Just as the world doesn't understand true Christians, many don't understand true Christian Polygamy. And this is truly a heart-felt, loving, Christ-based, Spirit-based, Bible-based, cross denominational movement. KT: All right. MH: Super. KT: Thanks, Mark. MH: Thanks now. Take care. KT: B'bye. MH: God bless. B'Bye.

Both of those interviews were recorded onto a single audiocassette. That tape is now available for anyone to order.

With both of those friendly interviews, Mark Henkel had clearly demonstrated that Christian Polygamy is from purely Bible-believing evangelical Christianity. He supported it all biblically with numerous Scriptures. On a larger note, he also explained how modern Christian leaders making the mistake of leading God's people into the idolatry of big socialist government is what the Bible has always called "going the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat." (Only genuine Bible-students know the eye-opening profundity of that statement and its urgent wake-up call to the would-be leaders of God's people.)

Moreover, Mark Henkel explicitly showed how the polygamy rights movement actually provides the true conservative solution to ending the "government marriage" debate about what he calls the "biological impossibility of same sex marriage." Not only did he cite Romer v. Evans (1996) and Lawrence v. Texas (2003), but he went even further to also cite a new case definitely supported by fellow Christians: the 8-0 Supreme Court Decision in February 21, 2006, "Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao Do Vegetal." (That last case is not a case which homosexuals would be using to demand their homosexual agenda.) Indisputably, from citing free market economics to absolute limited government principles, it is undeniable that TruthBearer.org's founder, Mark Henkel, spoke in unwaveringly true conservative terms.

For anyone seeking proof of what was actually said in the interviews, both of the interviews are now available on a single audiocassette to order.

Unfortunately, to the great and deep sadness of true Christians everywhere, Focus on the Family's news department, Family News in Focus, chose to tell a completely opposite "report" of what Mark Henkel actually said. Along with their deliberate sin of bearing false witness, the editors at Family News in Focus also revealed their very fear of the truth he spoke. Namely, they also committed the yellow-journalistic non-attribution tactic of not even letting their audience know the name of the TruthBearer.org organization about whom they were citing. Insodoing, they also sinned against Mark Henkel personally by stealing his time to exploit it for their own profit in their own mistaken agenda. All around, it was utterly heartbreaking to Christians everywhere for so much sin to occur by ones who honestly should be conducting themselves with the highest of integrity of all. Of course, all Christians understand that everyone make mistakes, but this was far more serious, unrepented, and very disappointing.

Family News in Focus's online article, with a link to the audio-file too, have been archived here below. After that, it is then followed (further down on this page) by final comments.

Polygamy Rights Follow Gay Marriage Demands

by Kim Trobee
© March 16, 2006 Family.org (article here)

Supporters of traditional marriage predicted same sex unions would lead to other bizarre arrangements.

Big Love, a new series on HBO, follows the story of a family in Salt Lake City. But this family has one husband and three wives. Just a Hollywood storyline? Maybe not. Mark Henkel is with a group that describes itself as an “organization of Christian polygamists.”

“We’re a cross-denominational para-church support, supporting both individuals and pastors that come to this realization that the Bible does not support the Catholic invention of one man-one woman as a doctrine.”

Henkel is one of a handful of polygamy rights groups that want the practice decriminalized and are pointing to court decisions like Romer v. Evans and Lawrence v. Texas, rulings that granted privacy rights to homosexuals, to back their claims. Carrie Gordon Earll with Focus on the Family Action points out that polygamists are merely riding on the coattails of the gay activist movement, using court victories and mimicking their strategy to push their own agenda.

“The polygamists are going to go through the courts just like the gay rights activists did because that’s the only way they can move their policy agenda forward. There is no limit to the deviancy of humanity. It could go to anything from bestiality to pedophilia to things we can’t even imagine yet.”

Henkel says if the United States allows gay marriage, it will be forced to allow polygamy. And we’ll be sliding even farther down that “slippery slope.”

[ END OF ARTICLE ]

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The online article then provided a link to a web-page of clickable links for users to hear the broadcast over the internet. Family News in Focus's March 16, 2006 audio-file report may be heard by clicking this link here.

The pre-audio-file lead-in page to that audio-file announces the four segments in that news report. The third listed item refers to the polygamy rights article. Family News in Focus bore false witness in its most extreme example. Announcing the broadcast of the report, the page states:

"Polygamists are demanding right to marry.
They say homosexuals showed them the way.".

For anyone seeking to compare the actual interviews with the above "report," both of the interviews are now available on a single audiocassette to order.

Final Comment:

TruthBearer.org's founder, Mark Henkel, was the only pro-polygamy source cited in the article. So, when that article says that "polygamists say" that untrue statement (that supposedly "homosexuals showed them the way"), it only means that the "report" is claiming that Mark Henkel had supposedly said it. But as the interviews prove, not once did he ever say, hint, or even imply that somehow "homosexuals showed the way." The fact is, only the anti-polygamist in their article was the one inventing and making up that completely erroneous and untrue allegation in the first place. But no polygamists in the article ever said such a thing. As the facts prove, Mark Henkel had said the opposite, that polygamy rights would resolve that debate altogether. The following snippet from the first interview, with emphasis made in bold italics, proves it beyond doubt.

KT: Have some of the recent decisions in favor of gay marriage helped the polygamy movement, though?

MH: Notwithstanding that, we are evangelical Christians, so notwithstandiung that, truly, the Bible is very clear on the sin of the biological impossiblity of "same sex marriage." And it's biologically impossible because coitus is impossible for homosexuals practicing together. And, the fact that God is very clear about it being a sin.

MH (cont'd): Notwithstanding that, they [(the Court Decsions)] clearly do establish that, when it comes from that perspective, that there is no way you can use those precedents to accept the biological impossibility of "same sex marriage" and then equally deny the good, nurturing concept of Christian Polygamy. There's no way you can do that. There's just no sound logic whatsoever.

MH (cont'd): With that said, we're not just simply trying to, and we're definitely not trying to push or promote on the homosexual agenda whatsoever. The point being, we say that actually our argument is the answer to the problem of "same sex marriage."

MH (cont'd): Because: what we're saying is that, today's leaders, sadly, unfortunately, have gone the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat. They are leading God's people into idolatry. You don't fight liberalism with liberalism. You don't fight homosexuality with with the sin of idolatry, because both sinners go to Hell. According to Revelation 21:8, all idolators shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.

What this reveals is best demonstrated by noting what Ms. Trobee's article did corrrectly quote, and noting what was chopped off at the end of that same quote. That quote is re-stated as follows, with the missing and essential portion being emphasized in bold. Explaining what the TruthBearer.org organization is, Mark Henkel said,

We are a cross-denominational, para-church support, supporting individuals and pastors that come to this realization that the Bible does not support the Catholic invention of "one man, one woman" as a doctrine - especially using the false god of big socialist government to define the doctrine of God.

The editors at Family News in Focus were apparently too terrified by that last statement to let their audience hear it. Understandably, it does rather powerfully expose how they truly have "gone the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat." In showing how they have turned to the false god of big socialist government with their big government marriage amendment, that last line truly convicts them in their larger, ongoing sin of leading God's people into that idolatry - having sadly "gone the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat."

So, the leadership at Family News in Focus chopped Ms. Trobee's article to hide that last imperative part of the quote from the audience. From there, they prevented their audience from even knowing the name of this evangelical cross-denominational Christian organization, TruthBearer.org. And they "reported" a reverse statement to the say that Mark Henkel supposedly had said something he had never said. To the profound heartbreak of all sincere Christians everywhere, Family News in Focus undeniably bore false witness against Christian Polygamy before their entire audience and all the world.

It is, of course, understood - and even to be expected - that Christian groups such as Focus on the Family might need to be further taught the Word of God before they're ready to understand the real truth of Christian Polygamy and its Continuation of the Reformation. But even so, telling the truth is still always the requirement for all of us Christians, even when not yet ready to agree on-point. That means there is never a justification for bearing false witness against another to promote any agenda, even if self-perceived as "doing it for holy purposes." So, while Focus on the Family can be given grace for needing more time to understand about Christian Polygamy, there is never a righteous excuse for the sins committed in this sad situation.

As such, upon discovering this surprising and disappointing error of Family News in Focus, Mark Henkel compassionately sought to give them the initial benefit of the doubt. In following the Christian principles of Matthew 18:15, he called Kim Trobee soon after her article first appeared. She indicated that her editors had made the changes to her article. Accordingly, the error was then brought to her superior instead. To the genuine heartbreak and disappointment of all Spirit-walking Christians, her superior chose only to be stiffnecked and defiant in his response. Even being humbly given the opportunity to correct such a mistake, he instead chose a very hard-edged arrogance and refused.

Even so, the TruthBearer.org organization compassionately still allowed even more time for Focus on the Family's leadership to repent of their sins in this matter and to correct it. After other news media also used that same false-witness-telling "report" by Family News in Focus to further spread the untruth about polygamists, and after more weeks passed, it was clear that the darkness of these unrepented sins had to come to the "light of day."

For that reason, although done with great sorrow of heart, all of this information is herewith made fully available online. It is not done with vindictiveness. Rather, it is only done with a heart-felt hope for the true repentance and salvation of those who have committed these sins of bearing false wtness and the other auxilliary sins too. May the leadership at Family News in Focus who are responsible for committing such sin, therefore come out of their sin, repent, and find the joy of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The genuine hope for their souls' sakes is also why Mark Henkel, as Founder of the TruthBearer.org organization, has been asking all Members, supporters, and fellow Christians to both love and pray for the very souls of those who have so sinned in this matter. Anyone can err, but - and praise the Lord! - when we repent, the Lord our God is righteous and loving to forgive us our sins. Amen.

Here at the TruthBearer.org organization, all of us fervently pray that the Lord truly work a blessing out of this to all concerned - perhaps even one day unto an amazing testimony of love together unto the glory of the Lord. Alleluia Hallelujah!

Once again, we repeat: Both of those interviews were recorded onto a single audiocassette. That tape is now available for anyone to order.

TruthBearer.org Media [Directory] Focus on the Family Family News in Focus, March 16, 2006