[O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. . 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. "Fumarase deficiency is caused by a lack of the fumarase enzyme, an essential component in a biological process called the Krebs cycle, which converts food into energy within each cell. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. . And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. . Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. When this got around to his dad, his father packed up Snows belongings and left them in the room of a hotel owned by The Order. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. These conditions are disproportionately common, relative to the size of the general population, in Short Creek. The baby cemetery is a mess of overgrown weeds and dry, cracked dirt, home to hundreds of infant and toddler-size graves, not all of them marked. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. . If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. . Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. . 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. . . . --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . . . " 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. Child life is destroyed. Another is a first cousin. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. The chickens are coming home to roost. This is a humane coping strategy devised to deal with a dilemma that devastated a woman taught from birth her only value was in the number of children she bore for the Kingdom of God. 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. . "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. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. . . Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? "I know these people personally.'. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Below are further horrific details of the Kingston clan's "God-given genetic calamity, brought to you courtesy of Joseph Smith's Mormonism, as reported in the "Salt Lake Tribune" article, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet": ". . The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. John Daniel Kingston seen here in 1999, pleading no contest to beating his 16-year-old daughter after she attempted to flee an arranged marriage with her uncle David, Kingstons brother. There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. "'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. . I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. "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. He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two The polygamous town facing genetic disaster Apr 03, 2020 In a remote region of the US, a town is struggling with a chilling health crisis caused by a recessive gene. "Tarby says he explained to [a] gathering at [a] Town Hall in Colorado City that the only way to stop fumarase deficiency in the community is to abort fetuses that test positive for the disease and for the community to stop intermarriages between Barlows and Jessops, Barlows and Barlows and Jessops and Jessops. "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. . On the show's pilot, the trio bring a burly security guard along as they help a woman sneak into her own home to grab belongings for herself and her two young daughters. . "But this is a very unlikely scenario for FLDS faithful, who practice a religious doctrine that requires men to be strictly obedient to religious leaders and requires women to give birth to as many children as possible to increase the sect's numbers. . . . . Some read simply, "Baby Keate," or "Baby Bateman," or "Baby Cooke," with holes where numeric date tiles might otherwise be placed. We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. greatly increases, medical experts say. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. 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. 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? . Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. . 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. And then there are the more livable genetic conditions. This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. 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." . "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. . . If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. . "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. . 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. . . "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. . "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. A stern disciplinarian, who in later years looked and dressed like a mortician, Ortell made incest a tenet of the clans faith, informed by his work breeding Holstein cows on the Kingstons dairy farm. . They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. This means it may be genetically unwise for children of the early leaders to marry other children of early leaders, even now; yet, this tendency still exists in Mormonism. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' 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. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). Her younger sister Emily thought it was a joke, too, until one day another Order kid told her, We cant play with you because the Tuckers are n------.. Former Order members tell of babies being born nearly every week in the church. This is why those laws need to be enforced. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. . . As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. That's the big problem.' 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. From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) . "Marriages among first and second cousins have been common for decades in the community, where religious doctrine requires men to have at least three wives to gain eternal salvation. "'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. 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. . A simple urine test will reveal. Only the FLDS prophet can arrange and perform polygamous marriages, and those marriages are taking place in a community in which almost everybody is related. "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. There is no doubt about that at all. . In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. Young told Intelligence Report that his company has sold weapons, with the approval of the U.S. State Department, to governments in Europe and the Middle East, Saudi Arabia being one. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' "The genetic defect has been traced back to one of the community's founding patriarchs, the late Joseph Smith Jessop, and the first of his plural wives, according to medical literature, the Mormon Church genealogy database and residents of the community familiar with Jessop and Barlow family histories. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. . "Have you ever heard of the term The Turkey Baster?" He also married a woman descended from polygamy. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. There are also accounts of dead babies being buried at the Holy Spot, a tree-shrouded patch of land across the street from a grade school in Bountiful, just north of Salt Lake City. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. . There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. "There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece," she continues. Additionally, ex-Order members tell of a reputed church prophecy of an End of the World War, an apocalyptic vision that foresees a bloody race war with the Kingstons as the ultimate victors, chosen by their Heavenly Father to rule the world for a millennium. Snow began dating men when he was 22. . . From the "Phoenix New Timms" article, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children": "Colorado City resident Isaac Wyler says FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs is trying to create the 'perfect race.'. That means the number of cases likely will grow. 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. 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.'. "Until the test is available, Tarby says, the best prevention measure remains refraining from crossing Barlows, Jessops and their relations--who make up half the population of the polygamist enclave. "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. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. The last infant grave marked in this cemetery is dated 2010; Warren issued an edict from prison banning sex in 2011, so few infants have been born since then (the few babies born each year are the product of institutionalized rape by cult-appointed seed bearers). The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' Or leave. Now, let's examine how "God-ordained" Mormon polygamy has wreaked unholy genetic havoc on its faithful followers: --Case Study on Polygamous Mormonism's Genetic Disease Striking Home: The Linda Walker Story. . 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. . In the polygamist cult of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, cousins were encouraged to marry in order to preserve certain bloodlines. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. "While discussing health problems at a family gathering with some of my cousins wives, we discovered astonishingly that three out of four of us, all polygamy descendants, had borne a son with a clubfoot. Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. . She is guiding me all around town, following my route, turn by turn, on Google maps. . Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. . "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. . . . Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. In the l950s, research doctors thought we were one of the few families in the world with this form of nephritis, known as Alports syndrome. Some feature more expensive-looking gravestones, and include, beyond names and dates, terms of endearment such as: "Sweet baby girl," "Our son," and "Heaven's very special child." "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. "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . requote from Steve's excellent post ! . "John Ortell Kingston was the first Kingston to experiment with incest, marrying and bearing children with two half-sisters and two nieces, according to numerous ex-members of the clan. . 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. . . . ", (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). But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. This racist display was no one-off. The two were playmates when they were boys. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. She talked about how you cant associate with black people or anybody of a different race., Based on available evidence, including the accounts of numerous former Order members, the SPLC has designated The Order as a hate group under the category of `general hate.'. While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. Accounts of clan babies being born with congenital defects and other problems abound, including dwarfism, albinism and children born minus fingernails or without genitals. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. . They ought to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices; and it is not to be wondered at that they should envy those who so much better understand the social relations. There lives Ross LeBaron Jr., a descendant of another polygamous sect (separate from the FLDS but quite similar in practice) called the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. His brother, John Ortell Kingston, took over the leadership of The Order incorporated in the 1970s as the Latter Day Church of Christ. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. . a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. "Two years later, a pair of geneticists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., flew to Utah where they hoped to stage a seminar for Kingston family members about the dangers of incest and birth defects, and, presumably, gain permission to study the clan. . Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. 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. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. . It gets pretty bleak when it gets that close.' The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. ", "They took their lives," Ron says. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. Structural Birth Defects. . FOX 13 . According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. "'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. . . Desert Tech and its rifles have been featured on Fox News, Mythbusters, Daredevil and The Blacklist, among other TV shows. "Community historian Ben Bistline said most of the community's 8,000 residents are in two major families descended from a handful of founders who settled there in the 1930s. Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. That's still gross." "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. They offer no support, no exit route and no programs for the people trapped inside polygamy endeavoring to escape these closed polygamous communities or compounds. Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. . 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. . 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. 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