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National Polygamy Advocate \u2122 Mark Henkel was on "STOSSEL" on FOX Business Network (FBN) hosted by John Stossel, on March 4, 2010.   The set-up featured John Stossel seated on the right, with Mark Henkel and Gretchen Carlson seated beside each on the left. Gretchen Carlson is the renowned TV personality and co-host (at the time) of her own separate television show, "FOX & Friends."  (Note: years later, Gretchen Carlson stopped working for FOX after successfully filing sexual harrassment accusations against that employer.) The show was taped in New York before a live audience on February 24, 2010, the week before it aired.  The entire episode was about modern-day "Prohibition" involving various segments such as drugs, prostitution, polygamy, and more. (Note: a decade later, many states had legalized marijuana.)  John Stossel's topical purpose of this show's particular episode was to demonstrate how making things illegal is what causes more crime - just as America had learned from the alcohol "Prohibition" in the 1920s.   At the very end of the show, John Stossel gace an eye-opening concluding-commentary to re-iterate the episode\u2019s entire purpose, "I'd like to think that my body belongs to me."  Gretchen Carlson represented the "opposing polygamy" perspective, focusing mostly on making the "slippery slope" argument.   This "polygamy" segment also included two un-named polygamous wives, seated in the audience.  One of the wives gave an eloquent re-statement of Mark Henkel\u2019s frequent soundbite that polygamists are not after legalization, only de-criminalization.  Back to the main stage, as Gretchen Carlson continued to attempt the "slippery slope" argument, Mark Henkel smilingly provided succinct, friendly, and powerful soundbites to overcome her attempted argument.  Indeed, having done his preparation-homework about Gretchen Carlson herself, he was able to bring the "polygamy" segment to a jokingly and laughingly positive conclusion: he created a new soundbite on-the-fly that repeats a line that Gretchen Carlson herself had been shown in other videos over the years as repeatedly saying.  Given the invite to have "he last word," she brought the "slippery slope" argument even way out to the silliness of "not-even humans.\u201d John Stossel interjected to correct her that this segment was talking about adults. Mark Henkel then gave the new soundbite, applying Gretchen Carlson\u2019s own known hands-to-temple gesture , asking, "Do we have to google the meaning of consenting adults?"  She good-naturedly laughed, gave a knowing-smile to Mark Henkel, knowing that she had been gently comedy-roasted by him.  She laughed,;John Stossel laughed; everyone laughed.  (Listeners may get more details about this humorous soundbite at this online , "Marry Non-Humans? Funny TV Sound-bite Flattens Slippery Slope.")  This interview was one of the most positive and friendly interviews that Mark Henkel had been fortunate to give.

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