Mark Henkel, the founder of the TruthBearer.org organization, is the one lone person who first found this book, "The History and Philosophy of Marriage; or, Polygamy and Monogamy Compared" and made it available for free online. Anyone ever reading it now from the internet do so only because of his finding it first, and his being committed to getting it out to the public. In the late 1990s, after someone else had been trying to steal it in order to sell the book for money, Mark Henkel chose to put it all online for free - first at the thestandardbearer.com site, and then at TruthBearer.org directly. Even Way-Back site archived it at TruthBearer.org as far back as May 5, 2001, even as it had been at the web-site for much longer than that. The link to the book at TruthBearer.org also has been in the "Open Directory Project" for as many years too. (The Way Back site also archived the ODP listing as far back as February 25, 2002.)

Even though the original person who tried to copycat and sell the book later abandoned his family and stopped promoting polygamy altogether, the entire book has always remained free online at TruthBearer.org in normal, easy-to-read web-pages.

As Mark Henkel's personal Miraculous Testimony about the book shows, he has always had reason to be dedicated to getting the book to the public!

But that has not stopped other people from also trying to copycat the book too. Unscrupulous companies who are not even responsible for the copycatting have unfortunately made it necessary for our organization to have to make this page, listing others who have also copycatted the text of this book straight off the TruthBearer.org web-site.

We do not do this for ourselves, nor even because of the copycatters themselves. Rather, it is other unscrupulous companies barely even involved who have tied our organization's hands. (For example, Amazon.com has knowingly refused to remove imposter-text claiming to be made by our organization which we had never authorized.) Because of the unscrupulous companies, we are required to make his page here. Of course, if the actual copycatters themselves choose to remove the books they copycatted, we would be more than happy to remove the references below. We really do not want to be listing this.

• 2004 - William Clyde, ModernPolygamy.org. On his brand-new Mormon polygamy site in 2004, he copycatted the entire text of the book and linked it straight from his site's front page.
  
  
• 2005 - Nathan Braun, self-published. This man has never been known by anyone in the Christian Polygamy movement. He lifted the text of the book right off the TruthBearer.org web-site, then used LuLu.com to self-publish it. Then, on Amazon.com, Nathan Braun wrote a fake "review" of the book. In doing the "review," Nathan Braun outright plagiarized Mark Henkel's entire personal Miraculous Testimony about when Mr. Henkel found the book back in 1994. Nathan Braun's "review" then it made it look like Nathan Braun was the founder of TruthBearer.org, as if this organization supported the lifting of that book by Nathan Braun! The fact is, Nathan Braun has never, ever been known as a real person by anyone in the real Christian Polygamy community.
  
  
• 2008 - Todd Webb, BiblicalFamilies.org. A young man known by the handle, "Duke of Marshall," started a brand-new site in 2008. On his site, someone copycatted the entire text of the book into a PDF file.

It is genuinely sad is that such people have chosen to copycat and that unscrupulous companies have made it necessary for us to have to make this public page. As sad as it is, though, it is true that this situation does show how truly successful that Mark Henkel and the TruthBearer.org organization have become. After all, nobody copycats failures. They only copycat the successful. Even so, the TruthBearer.org organization would rather not have this kind of spectacle created or compelled upon us by others. The preference would be that all copycat editions be removed so that we can remove this page too.

Mark Henkel has asked all supporters to have a heart of Christ toward these individuals and to pray for all concerned.

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