National Polygamy Advocate

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 28 of the decision, that court declared, "we conclude that the term 'marry' is not confined to legally recognized marriages."   That is, the free speech act of just saying/purporting to be a polygamist was sufficient to prosecute a polygamist, even if there was no more than one marriage license involved.  Mark Henkel pointed out how most of the media acts like a conspiracy to refuse to let polygamists defend themselves in media reports unless polygamists acquiesce to the media "requests" to put polygamous families and faces on display.  Such all-or-nothing "requests" perilously put such families in ja