The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. . The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. . LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. . . lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . . WREs influence earned special scrutiny in February 2016 after the IRS, the EPA and other government agencies raided owner Jacob Kingstons house as well as The Orders bank and other locations, carting away bankers box after bankers box of records. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. "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. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. Asked about these legends, Kingston spokesman Kent Johnson, explained via email that on occasion Order families have asked to spread the ashes of a child lost before or after birth at the Holy Spot. Which brings us back to the baby cemetery. Branches of the polygamist mans family left out of the genealogy will change the incidence of common ancestors and potentially mask the true disease risk and incidence in the community. The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. 'I really doubt that if we could tell them, you know, "This male has the condition and this female has the condition; you shouldn't mate," that wouldn't stop them,' he said. . "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . And during a recent picnic to honor the birthday of patriarch John Ortell Kingston, Order families descended on a Salt Lake Valley park, where hundreds of children of all ages blanketed the parks green expanse. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. "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. Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. 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." . The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. "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. "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. . . . . . . "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. 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. . Still more, rather cryptically, feature child-size palm and footprints. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. . 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. "Outside, people don't die that often, and usually they're really old.". He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. 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). . But I do have children with other women., Asked if two women named were in fact his first cousins, Young paused, finally replying, I guess Im curious as to what youre trying to get at here.. The Kingstons teach that they are descended from Jesus Christ and these incestous marriages are intended to keep the bloodline pure, but instead have resulted in numerous Clan members being born with disabilties or birth defects, and it's not really that surprising to note that at one point during the second season of Escaping Polygamy, one of Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . That sister, too, dealt with a lot of respiratory problems with her kids, "because of the relation," Dawna explains. There have also been charges made that some plural wives and their children have . 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. "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. Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. 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 scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. 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. "Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston--John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell--has been criminally charged with incest. The 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. 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. . Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. . 5, p. 22. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. . Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. . Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. Sex. Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. . July 1, 2020. Many of the souls interred here lived not longer than a day, some just two days, two weeks, or two years. Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase. . . Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . . The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. And, because this cult is so tight-knit and averse to strangers, the gene pool is rather limited. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. The knowledge that one's children are likely to be born with conditions like this one does not prevent FLDS couples from becoming pregnant; instead, they see it as a responsibility and blessing to have many children. . . . The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? . . In a portion of Warren Jeffs' Priesthood Record a mostly dry document that details his every move and meeting one entry, a written transcription of an announcement made by Warren at lunch with his late father's family, stands out as particularly creepy. . Surely, there were too many deaths. . They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. . 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. . "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. "They were called the Second Warders and we were called the First Warders; we weren't supposed to hang out with kids from the Centennial group because they were wicked for having left," she says. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. . Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. . . The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. . "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. . . 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. Desert Tech and its rifles have been featured on Fox News, Mythbusters, Daredevil and The Blacklist, among other TV shows. The first questions were about his background. . 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. "In May, the girl said she was belt-whipped by her father inside a Kingston-owned barn in Box Elder County for fleeing the marriage, and was abandoned in the home of another of John Daniel's wives. hello 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. "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. 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. Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. This is why those laws need to be enforced. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. 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 . . 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. 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. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. "The widespread presence of the fumarase deficiency gene in the bloodlines of the founding families of Colorado City is going to make reaching any such goal extremely difficult. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. breeding really functional? 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. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. 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. . , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. . Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. 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. . Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. 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. More recently, the Kingston-owned Washakie Renewable Energy (WRE) agreed to pay a $3 million fine after it was sued by the federal government for raking in tax credits for biofuels it never produced. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. There are baby graves year that date back as earlier as the 1950s, potentially even earlier: many are unmarked. _____. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. . Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. Pentecostal These can include: Cleft lip or cleft palate; Heart defects, such as missing or misshaped valves; Abnormal limbs, such as a clubfoot; Neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, and problems related to the growth and development of the . He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. . 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. "It is Moore-Emmett's belief that the LDS Church who started polygamy in this country should take responsibility and provide financial aid and other resources for those polygamous families who have been abused. Three of his wives are his half-sisters. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. . 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. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. . "'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. 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 . Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' Black people supposedly suffered from multiple scriptural curses, from the mark of Cain and Noahs curse on Ham in the Old Testament to the racist tenets of early Mormonism that have since been renounced or abandoned by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS or Mormon church. There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. . . My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. he says. ". . He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. "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. . . . "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. 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. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . 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. 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. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. sr. . . . They can't do anything by themselves. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? Two are nieces. "15 years ago, a strange-looking child suffering from severe physical maladies and acute retardation was brought into the office of [pedatric neurologist] Dr. Theodore Tarby. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . Obviously, we would love to.. . . 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. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . . Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. "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. Well, my sister had a little baby with a cleft lip; it was her first child and it had a cleft lip and cleft palate, because they were both Jessops, and Jessops are carriers of that gene. I wonder aloud. . The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. . In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. There is no doubt about that at all. The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. "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. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. They are coming out of polygamous communities proliferating in Utah because Mormons are unable to face their history or follow sound marriage and childbirth practices. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. 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. Indeed, the group was founded during the Great Depression as a communal religious organization where members dedicated their earnings and possessions to building the Kingdom of God on Earth, as one church document attests. It's the kids who are disproportionately handicapped as compared to the demographics of any other comparably small town. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. . . . Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. . [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. . . "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. . . 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. . 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