Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. . The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . Matt Browning seems less sure. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. . "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. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". . . . His brother, John Ortell Kingston, took over the leadership of The Order incorporated in the 1970s as the Latter Day Church of Christ. For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. . "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . and last updated 1:46 PM, Feb 24, 2021. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. 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. Martha's husband was "Uncle" Fred Jessop, longtime Bishop to the FLDS people, who died in 2005 at 94, after being dragged from state to state by Warren Jeffs in what many ex-members believe was a transparent scheme of murder-by-stress: Dragging around a physically ailing, elderly man in need of constant medication is one way to kill a person without committing any outright murderous act, they say. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. ". . . . 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. 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. . That's still gross." http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09- http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html, http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html. Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. The company was founded in 2007 with an investment from family members. Tarby recounts a conversation he had with a member of the Barlow clan in which he tried to explain why so much fumarase deficiency was occurring among Mormon polygamists. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. . 5, p. 22. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. . ", (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) She knows that they're. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. "For Colorado City and Hildale to avoid more fumarase, polygamist leaders must use their authority to make sure that those potentially carrying the fumarase gene are not allowed to marry, says geneticist Aleck. Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. 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. offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. . . The chickens are coming home to roost. Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene greatly increases, medical experts say. "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. "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. Kingston -- the late enigmatic leader and church prophet who built the 1,500-member Kingston clan into a multimillion-dollar business empire while allowing many of his purported 13 wives and dozens of children to survive on government assistance. _____. Still more, rather cryptically, feature child-size palm and footprints. Through his brother LyleBishop of the FLDS and mouthpiece for his imprisoned brotherJeffs enacted a Judgment wherein FLDS members were asked a series of bizarre personal questions; their answers were judged, and the most righteous were welcomed into the United Order of FLDS elite. . It's also still rape with a foreign object, I remind us both unnecessarily. We would cause harm, he confessed. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. Why is this? He was. 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. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. . "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. . Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. . Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. : 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. 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. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. "The leaders must also understand the ethical considerations of continuing behavior, he says, that is bringing children into the world who suffer tragic deformities. That will open up for The Order to rise up and take over the world, Ron said. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) 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. One of her brothers married a woman whose grandmother is a sister to their father. Many of the souls interred here lived not longer than a day, some just two days, two weeks, or two years. There is no sign. "'I tried to get people to come, but nobody would listen,' says the mother, who left the group and her marriage after her sons were diagnosed with dwarfism. 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. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? '90% of the community is related to one side or the other,' said Bistline, a former member of the sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. . "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. . Not only were there possibly too few fathers making it easier for defects to clump in the large interrelated kindred but succeeding generations of children from these isolated rural Mormon towns married within a few kindred as well. 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. "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. 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 two groups split when Dawna was growing up. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. sr. . . This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' . 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. The FLDS started out as a few fringe families in the late 1890s; as more seeking to follow the principal of plural marriage moved to the polygamous towns in the early-to-mid 20th century, the gene pool grew, but by the 90s, under the stricter control of prophet Rulon Jeffs (Warren's father), they were tightening up and selectively marrying and breeding in a sort of misfired eugenics experiment that ultimately yielded its own genetic disorder: fumarase deficiency (FD), otherwise known as Polygamist Down's. 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. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? 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. . The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. ", -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. . . . "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. . "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. 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. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' . 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) . So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. In the revelation, the Lord commands him to take virgins 'an hundredfold in this world' for the purpose to 'multiply and replenish the Earth' so 'they may bear the souls of men.' . These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. '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. But given that the Kingstons command an estimated 6,000 adherents, boast a business empire reportedly worth as much as $1 billion and have outlasted myriad bouts with law enforcement and the press, these dreams of world domination may be less delusional than they first seem. . ". Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' "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. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. . 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. "Have you ever heard of the term The Turkey Baster?" It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. . The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. 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? A loyal Order member for years, he lost his faith and ended up leaving the Order over a curse of sorts, leveled at his family by LaDonna. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. . As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. 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. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. 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. . . In an office several hundred miles from where Young gave his speech, a 10-year . "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . . . "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. Readily accepted as a problem among mothers past the age of 35, it is rarely discussed as a problem when fathers are over 35, let alone 80. 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. David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. . ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). . . Julie left the cult at age 19. . . There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. We cannot afford to neglect the possibility our ancestors practiced a form of marriage that was unhealthy and debilitating to our children, to us, and to society. "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. "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. Kingston clan birth defects. 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. . "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. But in a 2News . They're given the utmost attention and care because the FLDS faithful believe everything in this life is a test before entering the celestial kingdom, and caring well for all of Heavenly Father's children is part of that test. 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. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. . 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. Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. [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. Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. 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. 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. "Fast-forward . . . . ozpoof "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. 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. . "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. 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. "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. . . "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. 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. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. 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. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. . "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. In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). Meanwhile, as Mormons wait patiently and faithfully for multi-wifery's official return, the words of their founding Church fathers sound praise to polygamy past, present and future: --The Mormon God's Declaration of Righteous Genetic Combinations: Monogamy is a Christian Blight on Humanity, While Polygamy is the Lord's Way to Produce Fresh, Virile Men; Good-Lookin' Women; and Super Strong Stock to Carry Civilization Into Eternity. . Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. . _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. 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. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. But by 2006, Dr. Theodore Tarby, of Arizona, had discovered at least 20 more children living with the condition in Short Creek, all within just blocks of each other. They got married and contacted the . ', "Aleck says the fact that so many people in the polygamist enclave are blood relatives of the founding Barlow and Jessop families 'shows the magnitude of the problem.'. "There is no doubt in the mind of any expert interviewed by 'New Times' that the practice of polygamy combined with inbreeding has fostered the spread of fumarase deficiency. The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. 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. As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. ". Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? There have also been charges made that some plural wives and their children have . . 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. . . 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. October 15, 2002: "There will be a viewing at father's house at 3p.m. 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. Child life is destroyed. "'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. . In secret videotapes of Order church meetings aired on Escaping Polygamy, Pauls nephew Nick Young, speaking from a church lectern, identifies himself as a numbered man, number 72, to be precise. Former Order members tell of babies being born nearly every week in the church. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . . . ". . I didnt even know the n-word was bad until I was like 15 or 16, she told Intelligence Report. These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. . . From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . . Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. . He prepared urine samples and sent them to the University of Colorado Science Center's Dr. Steve Goodman, a professor of pediatrics who runs a laboratory that detects rare genetic diseases. . 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 fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. 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. Appointments & Access. Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. "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. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. 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