Announcing the"Texans Know a Load of Corn When They See it, Oprah!" Photo op

May 14, 2009
 
 
Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy's 2009 Friends and Survivors
picnic will be held in San Angelo, Texas on June 27th at Glenmore Park,
at noon. There will be many survivors of American polygamy present,
hoping to meet Texans and explain the realities of the abuses they
experienced, in person.
 
 
In 1953, the State of Arizona raided the polygamous community of
Shortcreek, in what is now Colorado City Arizona, home of the
Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, currently led by Warren
Jeffs, alleging abuse of underage girls, forced to engage in sexual
relationships with much older men, under the guise of, "celestial marriage".
 
 
After the Arizona raid, the FLDS leadership responded with a concerted
public relations campaign to show America how normal polygamy is.
 
 
A piece in LIFE Magazine was the turning point in the public relations
war, winning sympathy from across America, and calls for the FLDS to be
left alone to practice their quaint religion, which apparently harmed
no one.
 
 
The man on the front page of LIFE, shucking corn with his concubines,
who won the PR war for the FLDS, was Clyde Mackert.
 
 
Over 50 years later, we will recreate that scene, at our Friends &
Survivors picnic, with smiling corn shucking survivors, backed by
Texans around a sign that reads, "Texans Know a Load of Corn When They
See it, Oprah"!
 
 
Although, this time Kathleen and Rena Mackert, daughters of Clyde
Mackert, still unborn at the time of the photos, will be there among
the survivors, front, and center. Both escaped polygamy, and both were
sexually molested their entire childhoods, by the same smiling, corn
shucking man who won the last national PR war for the FLDS.
 
 
We will send the photo from LIFE Magazine with ours, to Oprah Winfrey;
because we think she is playing the role of LIFE Magazine for the FLDS.
Her exclusive interviews inside the YFZ Ranch, a year after the Texas
raid, were full of softball questions and concentrated on bread baking
and the family nature of the FLDS. She went on to ad her opinion that
the U.S. prohibition against the cultural practice of polygamy should
be re-examined.
 
 
 
For more information, please contact executive director, k. Dee Ignatin
by email at TripleAP@gmail.com, or by phone at 928-897-9335.
www.TripleAP.org
 
 
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K. Dee Ignatin
Executive Director
Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy
www.TripleAP.org
928-897-9335