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. Many children have had birth defects due to this inbreeding. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. So many young people.'. . The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. According to experts and former Jeffs followers, the cause of the birth defect is clear: Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called Fumarase Deficiency. . As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. 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. "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. "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. . "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. . . . Aleck is a geneticist who participated along with Tarby and others in the groundbreaking study of several polygamous families with fumarase deficiency in the late 1990s. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) : 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. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. "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. There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. One child born with an incomplete liver died. . 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. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. . [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. 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. 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. . 'All of a sudden [with] this one little baby, everything tightened up and she arched her back so hard her head was almost touching her toes,' Wyler says. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. . A rare neurological disorder characterized by water on the brain, muscular stiffness, adducted thumbs and aphasia, x-linked hydrocephalus is expressed only in men and carried by women. The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. . . "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. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. 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. "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. _____. 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. ". Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. In an office several hundred miles from where Young gave his speech, a 10-year . Dawna's husband is a brother to her older sister's husband, "but they're only half brothers, so him and I aren't blood-related at all, because he was from the youngest mother, which had no relation to us other than marriage, and then my sister was married to the older brother and his mom and my grandmother were full sisters.". "By the late 1990s, Tarby and his team had discovered fumarase deficiency was occurring in the greatest concentration in the world among the fundamentalist Mormon polygamists of northern Arizona and southern Utah. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. . . 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. 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. FOX 13 . "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. Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. . Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. . The adult residents of Short Creek todayboth those still in the FLDS and those who have left the cultare mostly able-bodied, seemingly healthy individuals. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. 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. Blood tests showed the infant and 25 other children from numerous women were fathered by the same man, leading to one of the largest welfare fraud-settlements in Utah history. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. Tarby. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. A simple urine test will reveal whether there is an excess of fumaric acid in the urine, if the other, more external symptoms aren't obvious enough. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. . Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. _____. . I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. . "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. . . "'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. . The chickens are coming home to roost. . "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. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. I could see that the leaders of The Order really did believe we had black ancestors, Ron explained, with Christy next to him, and his adult daughters Emily and Julie nearby. Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. 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. In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. Obsessed with the purity of their bloodline and empowered by a sense of entitlement on par with the divine right of kings, the Kingstons have made incest the cornerstone of a self-serving theology that loathes non whites, fosters homophobia and abhors government authority. All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. There was also testimony, during one hearing, that someone in the Kingston clan wanted to blow up the courthouse. Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. It's the kids who are disproportionately handicapped as compared to the demographics of any other comparably small town. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. 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. my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? . The first questions were about his background. When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. sr. . 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. 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. Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. Still more, rather cryptically, feature child-size palm and footprints. . Sex. requote from Steve's excellent post ! Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. KUTV A large police presence swarmed a well-known polygamous family's property in South Salt Lake Wednesday.A Department of Justice Spokesman Peter Carr confirmed to KUTV that it is involved in . Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. . 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 bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring. . In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. . "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. That's the big problem.' shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. . [i]n a secret church ceremony. . "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". . living in Colorado City and Hildale are blood descendants of the Barlows and the Jessops, says Benjamin Bistline, a lifelong resident of the area who has published a book . . . There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. I am convinced they do. Although the official stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is against polygamy, several of the women's stories reveal that LDS leaders dismiss the deviant sects and blame the women who come to them for help. The two were playmates when they were boys. . Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. . '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. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. 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. I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. 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 . 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. And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. "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. "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year. Since most Kingston children are born in homes under the scrutiny of trusted and secretive family midwives or clan leaders, documentation of medical abnormalities is rare, but not unprecedented. Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. From the previously-cited article, "Understanding Polygamy": "The polygamous Kingston family professes that their genealogy line traces back to Jesus Christ, and so they possess holy blood. . . . . . Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . [Mormon] [h]istorian B. H. Roberts, notes an eugenic attitude regarding polygamy: "'It was in the name of a divinely-ordered species of eugenics that Latter-day Saints accepted the revelation which included a plurality of wives. Ross LeBaron Jr. recently took to the Internet to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, as well as for LaVoy Finicum, the lone fatality in that ordeal. "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. 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. "Like his father-in-law, John Y. Barlow became one of the towering patriarchs of the fundamentalist Mormon community and served as FLDS prophet from 1935 until his death in 1949. . died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. "Victims suffer a range of symptoms, including severe epileptic seizures, inability to walk or even sit upright, severe speech impediments, failure to grow at a normal rate, and tragic physical deformities. From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. 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. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. And they are growing. Everyone knows it's happening, few talk about it unprompted, it just sort of..is. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? 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). Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. Yeah, I believe in it, he said. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. 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? ". . "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. . thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. . . These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. In 2003, Order member Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking his first cousin, 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston, as his fourth wife. It is bordered to the north by a well-maintained lot where there sits a stately red brick home with UEP (United Effort Plan, the church trust which is now controlled by the state of Utah in the aftermath of Jeffs' conviction) spelled out in white brick on its south-facing side. His eldest died six years ago at 10 years old, he says, and another died in infancy, leaving behind two remaining brothers from a set of spontaneous identical triplets. Surely, there were too many deaths. Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. Once free of the cult, Lu Ann, Allison and other ex-Order members have had to unlearn the hatred that was drilled into their heads. "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. Indeed, regardless of facing crushing federal government opposition to polygamous inbreeding, true-blue Mormons remain convinced that you can't keep a good man of God down To them, polygamy will be coming back some day, with sizable numbers of the faithful flock confident that its eugenic genetics will return by order of Joseph's Jesus. "Every person carries some lethal genes. . hello . Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. "It is important that Mormons fight the tendency to discount history and the actions of their leaders in favor of a faith- promoting history while neglecting important facts. . 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. Children inherit disabling illnesses. A retired Arizona law enforcement officer, Browning is the president and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network and is in charge of security for the A&E show, where his wife Tawni works as the casting producer. Polygamy is outlawed in Utah, both by the states constitution, and in statute, where it is a third-degree felony, with a possible punishment of five years in prison. 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.. The defect might be caused by genetics, infection, radiation, or drug exposure, or there might be no known reason. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. and cousins. This is why those laws need to be enforced. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. . 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