The number 1-877-GET-A-DAD on the microphone at the gathering of Lost Boys speaking about being cast out of FLDS I referred to earlier. The rally was outside on steps, part of it shown in the movie Banking on Heaven.

Lost Boys mentoring

"These are just a few of the boys who've been told to leave or left on their own," Steed said. "Many had nowhere to go, no food to eat. Some of them were kicked out with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and with the understanding they would be destroyed [by God]."

The boys have been exploited, victimized and discarded, deprived of basic educations and threatened with eternal damnation, Fischer said.

"These boys and young men need America's help," said Fischer, a former FLDS member who has formed the nonprofit Diversity Foundation to help the boys get schooling and even college educations.

"The boys need dads. I want very much to rally support."

Among those already joining the cause as mentors: Jon Krakauer, author of Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, and Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.