"Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. "FLDS marriages, Wyler and other community experts say, are an extension of a breeding program that began with Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in the 1830s. Some outside the church have referred to the group as "the Kingston Clan" or the "Kingston Cult," although leaders believe that these terms are "inaccurate and derogatory." . 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' . "The widespread presence of the fumarase deficiency gene in the bloodlines of the founding families of Colorado City is going to make reaching any such goal extremely difficult. Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . Child life is destroyed. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. And they are growing. Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. The Kingstons teach that they are descended from Jesus Christ and these incestous marriages are intended to keep the bloodline pure, but instead have resulted in numerous Clan members being born with disabilties or birth defects, and it's not really that surprising to note that at one point during the second season of Escaping Polygamy, one of "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. And, because this cult is so tight-knit and averse to strangers, the gene pool is rather limited. "Many of the parents did not want to have to deal with some of those children. . . She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. soon . It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. . The 43-year-old Kingston took the witness stand for the prosecution about 2:40 p.m. and is expected to answer questions through Thursday. He also married a woman descended from polygamy. Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. The three marriages between second cousins have produced at least eight children afflicted with fumarase deficiency, according to a report in the May 2000 'Annals of Neurology' (based on the study conducted by the group led by Tarby and Aleck), interviews with doctors treating the disease and anecdotal evidence gathered from the community. Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. One man, who asks to remain nameless to protect his and his family's privacy, describes a lifetime of round-the-clock care and too-frequent hospital visits for his five sons. ("Doctrine & Covenants," Section 132, verses 55, 62-63), "Joseph Smith also testified an angel with a sword came to him many times and commanded him to practice polygamy or else he would lose his life. Fumarase deficiency, however sensationalized, is not the only genetic disorder found here. "It is Moore-Emmett's belief that the LDS Church who started polygamy in this country should take responsibility and provide financial aid and other resources for those polygamous families who have been abused. ". October 15, 2002: "There will be a viewing at father's house at 3p.m. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. The Order can rightly claim discrimination by mainstream Mormonism, but this is due to its embrace of polygamy, which the LDS church officially abandoned in 1890 in order for Utah to become a state. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. Elden also instituted the church law of one above the other, requiring members blind obedience to the churchs hierarchy of numbered men, with Elden being Brother Number One. . Mormons who believe that polygamy is a heaven-sent doctrine that will eventually be re-implemented on Earth by God (current Church claims of non-use notwithstanding), have a friend in go-to LDS Apostle, Bruce R. McConkie, who confidently declared: "Obviously, the holy practice [of polygamy] will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium. Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. There is no sign. "Genetics of Incest: Pre-eclampsia is a condition that can be traced genetically from one generation to the next and is prevalent among some Kingstons, Rugg says. . . He was. "A Secretive Refrain: . "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . "You had a fairly diverse pool to start with, so only if that went on for a long time within this same population would you see real effects," he told ABC. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. Have you also noticed all the genetic and other debilitating defects, deformities and diseases that comes along with your poisoned patriarchal plurality-of-wives club? . 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. and is expected to answer questions . "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. Tarby. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. . David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. . . Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. Control of The Order then passed to Ortells well-educated son Paul Kingston, one of several lawyers in a cult whose members dress normally and try not to draw attention to themselves. "Then, as generations of polygamous Kingston children have been taught, they demurred to questions about their father. . . . . So what about polygamy? One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. So, from the beginnings of Mormon Church history, we have LDS Elohim's hand of blessing placed upon the insidious institution of multi-wifing and forever-birthing. the FLDS has the highest known rate of a rare genetic disorder called "fumarase deficiency" that causes severe birth defects. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. . It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. According to historian Brian Hales Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto, Brother Elden, as he was also known, had five wives and 17 children. 5, p. 22. . 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' . . A simple urine test will reveal. The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. Sex. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Surely, there were too many deaths. . One ex-Order member, who asked to be referred to as Scott, instead of his real name for fear of retribution by clan members, said hatred of gays was big in the Kingston clan, with the word f----- in frequent use. "Several Kingston offspring of incestuous couplings also have been born without fingernails, a disease that could be linked to a number of genetically caused abnormalities, although an exact diagnosis is impossible without closer study of medical records. Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. Those who did not make it into the UO were separated from their families, placed in patchwork homes of other UO "orphans," and told to repent. Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. . "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. This is why those laws need to be enforced. . My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . unavailable to researchers. . "I'm like, Really? . From an "Associated Press" news report, "Doctor: Birth Defects Increase in Polygamy Community": "A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border, according to a doctor who has treated many of the children. Before the call ended, Young insisted that he didnt admit to any kind of incest or anything. When Intelligence Report inquired if Young thought there was anything wrong with first cousins getting married, Young opined that such issues were between the individuals involved and God. They are coming out of polygamous communities proliferating in Utah because Mormons are unable to face their history or follow sound marriage and childbirth practices. He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. . "The children afflicted with fumarase deficiency from these three marriages include the grandchildren of Dan Barlow and his brother, the late Louis Barlow, and Merill Jessop, a top aide to fugitive prophet Warren Jeffs. We would cause harm, he confessed. 13, p. 195, "We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they (non-Mormons) envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. 6.3M views 6 years ago Profiles by VICE S1 E23 Although the mainstream Mormon church abandoned polygamy over 100 years ago, many splinter groups across Utah still practice plural marriage. offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. . "Today, six sons and two daughters of John Ortell and LaDonna have married at least 20 half-sisters, nieces and first cousins, giving birth to a family tree that twists and tangles, and, at times, withers with children born of genetic deficiencies. . 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. . Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. Two of her sisters married their first cousinsmen with whom they share the same grandfather; the sons of their father's second wife, who is their mother's full sister. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. Matt Browning seems less sure. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase. . "'My guess is this man had used some of these inbreeding practices in his herd so he was probably in the camp that believed superior genetics could be propagated in a particular line,' Green says. . . Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, with the help of her boyfriend Bryan. In a portion of Warren Jeffs' Priesthood Record a mostly dry document that details his every move and meeting one entry, a written transcription of an announcement made by Warren at lunch with his late father's family, stands out as particularly creepy. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. "Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston--John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell--has been criminally charged with incest. . ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. . Young denied that The Order was racist or taught any form of bigotry, and said he had people of all races working for him. Since the natural male-to-female ratio is roughly 50-50, the ratio must be manipulated so that there are more females than males for polygamy to work. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. They have no movement. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. : About half of the 8,000 people living in the towns are blood relatives of two of the founding families that settled in the 1930s on the desolate high desert plateau against the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. _____. . it is the only popular religion there,", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Deseret News," 6 August 1862, "This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans, . The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. A fifth child, they say, was fathered by their eldest brother Wayne LeBaron, (who was married to Dawna Black Bistline's cousin at the time of this child's allegedly incestuous conception). "15 years ago, a strange-looking child suffering from severe physical maladies and acute retardation was brought into the office of [pedatric neurologist] Dr. Theodore Tarby. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. Yeah, I believe in it, he said. . [i]n a secret church ceremony. . . Shuvrajit Das Biswas. The incest came to light after the girl tried to escape the arranged celestial marriage an illegal marriage, sans license. "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . . . Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. . 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. "Medical experts say the incidence of the disorder will increase because the FLDS community is refusing to accept recommendations to reduce the likelihood of producing babies with fumarase deficiency. . "Another of Rugg's full sisters, Andrea Johnson, died in 1992 of complications of pre-eclampsia, a condition of pregnancy that was not treated until after the young girl, swollen with toxic fluid, was rushed to the emergency unit at University Hospital. . Jeffs is following a long-established practice -- started by Smith 170 years ago -- of excommunicating those who do not strictly adhere to church leaders' commands. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. Meanwhile, Mary Ann Kingston, 22, has brought a $110 million civil suit against 242 Order members and 97 companies they operate, claiming that they share collective responsibility for abuse she. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. _____. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". "I know these people personally.'. . _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. . Bad harm. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. for Nathanael Allred's baby. Two are nieces. So many young people.'. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. Somehow LaDonnas curse was transferred to the Tuckers via Christy, Rons wife, because, Christys mom left The Order and married an Irishman, before leaving him and returning to the fold. Elden had predicted that he would be resurrected from the dead, so clan members kept his body on ice for three days, to no avail. So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. The letter asserts that one of the earliest members of the church was a Native American man and that the Co-op, as it is sometimes called, has been the victim of prejudice and harassment by Utahs majority religion (i.e., the LDS church) because of the formers progressive ideas. . An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. Not one defect, but many. This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. [Andrea] Moore-Emmett [author of 'God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped'] contends that [in polygamy] incest, statutory rape, torture, physical abuse, forced marriages, and trafficking of girls is rampant. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. . . It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. . At the time this inbreeding took place these prophets preached and practiced modern eugenic science, the science of controlling the traits of future populations through selective breeding for idealized traits like blond hair, blue eyes and tall stature. . . Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. . "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" Could my childish intuition that the adults and doctors lips were sealed against my questions involve family secrets; secrets relatives took to their graves rather than betray? Polygamy would have afforded the opportunity of producing from that consecrated fatherhood and motherhood the improved type of man the world needs to reveal the highest possibilities of the race, that the day of the super man might come, and with him come also the redemption and betterment of the race.'. Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. . In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. . . . . "Finally exposed in the news, the facts of life inside [the Mormon offshoot Kingston clan's] religious/cult compound are stunning Mormons, Utahans, the nation, and the world. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. . . Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . "It's like any inbred disorder," Tarby says. . . One child born with an incomplete liver died. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. . This is all compounded by the split between the FLDS and an offshoot group of polygamists that moved to nearby Centennial Park following a disagreement over how the community should be governed, and by whom). I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. . The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. "The discoveries and research within my own kindred so alarmed me that I studied other descendants of polygamy to see if their families also suffered from crippling illnesses. ", (Joseph Carroll, "One in Four Americans Think Most Mormons Endorse Polygamy; Only 2% Think Most Americans Support Polygamy," by Gallup News Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 7 September 2006, at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e). She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. And the Genealogy Department advises genealogists to follow only their direct line; in this instance meaning only the wife who is their mother, not other wives of their father. . "There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble because he was having children with these young girls, so he said, 'Well, I never had sex with themI used a turkey baster.'" Home births and the frequency of miscarriages and still-borns among the Kingstons have led to macabre legends of dead infants buried in Kingston back yards. The fact that most of the people in the Kingston clan were born into the lifestyle is very key to group think because this is all they know, and some may never question the beliefs even when they age because it has been their whole world all their life. 'The downside is that if you don't start with good genetics, and if there is baggage in the genes of the individual, inbreeding will uncover that baggage. Something along the lines of, to build a superhuman, if you have four or five defects to get the one good one, its worth it, he recalled. . This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story, the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, an article published by the ABC news network, the fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. . Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women-stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout Christendom, and which had been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. Some read simply, "Baby Keate," or "Baby Bateman," or "Baby Cooke," with holes where numeric date tiles might otherwise be placed. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. . The defect might be caused by genetics, infection, radiation, or drug exposure, or there might be no known reason. 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. She directs me to the houses she lived in after that: her stepdad Jim Jessop's home; then the rotten, roach-infested house she and her mother shared with nearly two dozen cousins and friends after being removed from Jim's following the Judgment. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . There is no doubt about that at all. "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? In 2006, Warren Jeffs, then the president and prophet of the FLDS, was arrested and charged with accomplice rape, for just two of the underage marriages he had arranged. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. ", (Aimee Larsen Stoddard, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems," 7 October 2010, under "Birth Defects in Mormon Fundamentalist Cult," posted by "halley, 20 February 2011, at: http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723) ". The brother missionaries have been in the habit of picking out the prettiest women for themselves before they get here, and bringing on the ugly ones for us; hereafter you have to bring them all here before taking any of them, and let us all have a fair shake. . . This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. We're sitting in Ron's large kitchen, eating a meal of homemade tomato sauce and sweet Italian sausage that his wife Geria retired marriage and family therapist originally from Hurleyville, NY, who he met six years ago on Zoosk!has prepared in a slowcooker. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. "'Incest as a policy or routine practice is rare,' says Melvin Williams, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and a leading expert in the study of kinship systems. . "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. 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