. Among the polygamous Kingstons, a number of children have been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two uteruses but no Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. Child life is destroyed. This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. His seven sons and two daughters by LaDonna Peterson, the second of his 13 wives, are reputed to be the inner circle that runs the cult. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. _____, --How "God's Genes" Do Ugly Things: The Biological Attack on "Modern"-day Followers of Mormonism's Originally-"Revealed" Doctrine of Polygamy. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. . The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. . . . First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. . 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . . . "He sent her to live in a coal yard with other polygamous wives and their many children in South Salt Lake, visiting her rarely and usually only to have sex, she testified. . 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. Matt Browning seems less sure. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. . "Researchers have identified a gene on the first chromosome that causes fumarase deficiency, but no test has been developed that could be used to identify individuals carrying the malady. "In polygamy . restricted in some polygamous sects, including FLDS groups in Colorado City, Arizona; Hildale, Utah; and West Texas, that force some of the young males to leave the communities . "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. From the article, "Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions": "[Mormon] Church founder, Joseph Smith, said he received a revelation from God, which is still canonized Mormon scripture as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132. I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. . I'm driving around Short Creek with Alyssawho is in Boise, Idaho, where she is a college sophomorepiped in through the bluetooth-enabled speakerphone in the rental car I'd picked in Las Vegas the previous night. "How do you keep track of that?" _____. A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. Ron Rohbock, 64, who was kicked out of the FLDS in 2002 after serving on church security for decades at Warren and Rulon Jeffs' side, has a different answer. Yeah, I believe in it, he said. There are baby graves year that date back as earlier as the 1950s, potentially even earlier: many are unmarked. 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. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. ". Let's revisit the boastful words of Mormon Church Prophet John Taylor and Mormon Church Apostle Heber C. Kimball, both quoted earlier: -Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. . "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. . . 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. requote from Steve's excellent post ! At least six of Merlin's incestuously conceived children in turn married half-siblings, couplings that subsequently produced children with various deformities, says Rowenna Erickson, an ex-member who left her polygamous husband. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. Those affected by the genetic disorder suffer grand mal seizures and often have facial feature deformities and severe mental retardation, with IQs as low as 25. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers. ". Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, . "Her half-brother is still married to another half-sister (whose parents also were half-sister and brother) and are still members of the Kingston's order. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. "The disease is not widely known about even in Colorado City, a place where even normally public events such as marriages are conducted in secret. By the time Joseph Smith Jessop died in September 1953, he already had 112 grandchildren, the majority of them directly descended from him and Yeates. Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? . "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. "John and Charles' brother, Merlin Barnum Kingston, married and had children with four nieces and a half-sister, say ex-members, including one of his own daughters. "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. "There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year," says Ron. . They steer clear of banks,. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. It gets pretty bleak when it gets that close.' . 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. According to church lore, The Order came into existence when founder Charles Elden Kingston saw Jesus in the mountains above the familys settlement in Bountiful, Utah, inspiring him to create the DCCS in 1935. 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. . "During this early period, polygamy was practiced secretly by the Mormon leadership, men who covertly preached and expanded polygamy while publicly deceiving the general Mormon population about the practice. . The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. Cases of fumarase deficiency have shown up in the FLDS communities in Colorado City and Hildale, and doctors believe that the incidence of the condition in these communities will increase in coming generations. . ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) If the FLDS faithful believed that Jeffs was relying on science to determine marriages rather than divine revelation from God, he could lose control of the church. Some of these marriages will include parents who both are carriers of the fumarase deficiency gene, making it certain that more children will be afflicted with the disease. A 1999 Salt Lake Tribune article mapped the Kingstons incestuous family tree, quoting one of Ortells 65 kids, ex-Order member Connie Rugg as saying, My father experimented [with] inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.. If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. . The lawyers words call to mind another heavenly curse, described in 2 Nephi, Chapter 5 of the Book of Mormon, where God caused a skin of blackness to come upon a group called the Lamanites, supposedly ancestors of Native Americans. sw. htm>. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. There is no sign. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. ", (Linda Walker, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics," under "Science as Culture," originally written in the fall of 1991, updated in the summer of 1999, citations included, at: http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html) Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. soon . "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. . The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. . Tucker recounted the clans version of the apocalypse, the End of the World War, a riff on a prophecy some ascribe to Joseph Smith, called The White Horse Prophecy. I wonder aloud. 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. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. Jessica said she and other children of the Kingston clan a group also known as The Order, the Davis County Cooperative Society, and the Latter-Day Church of Christ dropped the N-bomb all the time, as did their parents. . It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. The records of the marriages sealed at the Nauvoo Temple before the general exodus to Utah in the 1840s, may be the most important ones of all; yet, these are . KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. The stage was set for the appearance of the rare disease when their 12th child, Martha Jessop, married her second cousin, John Yeates Barlow, in 1923, according to LDS genealogy data and Colorado City historian Ben Bistline. "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. 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. Former Order members tell of babies being born nearly every week in the church. 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? Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. I didnt even know the n-word was bad until I was like 15 or 16, she told Intelligence Report. . "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. . Former clan prophet John Ortell Kingston, who died in 1987, paid the Medicaid bills for a child born with severe birth defects after Utah investigators linked the wealthy father of more than 65 children to the baby. on the history of the fundamentalist community. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. 11, p. 128, ". _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. Children inherit disabling illnesses. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. . . Johnson maintained that The Orders vast array of businesses which includes a grocery store, pawn shops, a garbage disposal business, an insurance company, a politically-influential biofuels plant, and a high-end firearms manufacturer employs individuals of various racial and ethnic minorities. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. . Fumarase deficiency, however sensationalized, is not the only genetic disorder found here. "For more than 70 years, all marriages in the isolated towns have been arranged by the leader of the FLDS, a breakaway sect of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. Also known as the LDCJC, the Kingston Clan, and The Order, it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. . 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. In one, Ortell warns that there is a movement afoot that wants to homogenize the people and make one race, by mixing all the races up. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. One outspoken Mormon matriarch who attended the same Sunday meeting for 50 years commented about the health of the polygamous descendants versus the monogamous descendants, 'You see it in the obituaries. . Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. ", (Greg Burton, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet: Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous groups," in "The Salt Lake Tribune," 25 April 1999, at: http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html . And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. 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." . "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. . . And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. . Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. and last updated 1:46 PM, Feb 24, 2021. . Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). unavailable to researchers. In it, black people come close to killing off the white race until they are countered by Native Americans, symbolized by a Red Horse, which gallops to the White Horses rescue. . SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. 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. Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. . In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" . and councilmen.' 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. . He believed he had superior bloodlines.' Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. . Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. SALT LAKE CITY (CN) Survivors of Utah's notorious Kingston clan filed a lawsuit seeking punitive damages against 22 Kingston members on Wednesday for sex trafficking minors born into the organization, sexual battery, child abuse and more. . Naming a father could expose the truth, unveil secrets of paternity and subject the clan to further scrutiny from those who don't approve of incest. "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. ". states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. This seemed to apply in my own kindred because those of us who left Mormonism and married outsiders are less riddled with the deleterious genetic legacy than relatives who married within the ancestral Mormon gene pool. . Consanguinity causes aggregate clusters of deleterious genes to collect in families, which then express themselves as rare recessive disorders like nephritis, cystic fibrosis, biliary artesia, albinism, short stature and many others. If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". "Other possible genetic traits include: microcephaly, a malformation of the skull in which the infant has a small head (ex-members say two children with microcephaly have died and eight others are institutionalized); blindness; spina bifida; Down syndrome; kidney disease and abnormal leg and arm joints. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' "'It would have been unusual if he wasn't using artificial insemination in his herd, and by virtue of that, was probably using semen from some bulls that had been inbred,' says Dennis Green, a professor of beef cattle genetics at Colorado State University. During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series "Escaping Polygamy," remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a . . In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. . Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. . 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. Convinced they are breeding a pure white master race, they blame the mother if a deformed baby is born then preach she was unrighteous or unclean. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . . Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. 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. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. 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. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. IF polygamy really is justified in increased breeding, and since MORmON Jesus did institute such a plan according to MORmON history at one time, then how come MORmON god does not follow through and have a lot more females born in such marriages as would be required mathematically to make His "Our ancestral destiny meant we might give birth to sons who would die at maturity or daughters who would carry the trait to the next generation of sons. "Ex-members' claims of incest are bolstered by court records claiming John Ortell 'failed either to support or acknowledge' three children by his niece, (Susan) Mary Gustafson. refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. "'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. Structural Birth Defects. There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. materials or even attempted to focus team and society have a kingston clan member was charged with birth defects increase becomes apparent similarities than. . The Twelve Apostles of Mormonism then acted to increase this familial relationship by marrying other relatives until in 1877, at the end of Brigham Youngs reign as Mormon Prophet and King, the polygamous hierarchy became l00% interrelated. Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. But now that it was appearing in two children in the same family was an indication it was being spread by a gene that was getting passed to the children by their parents. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. Black blood was the worst thing you can have, Jessica said, particularly since the Kingstons consider themselves to be the whitest of the white, descended directly from Jesus Christ and King David, the Middle Eastern origins of both men notwithstanding. . [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. "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. "It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are" before getting married or pregnant, she adds. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. Those affected by the genetic disorder suffer grand mal seizures and often have facial feature deformities and severe mental retardation, with IQs as low as 25. . . 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