. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. 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). 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. 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. . Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' . . 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. . In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . 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. . They can't do anything by themselves. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . '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. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. 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? ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. and councilmen.' This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. 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. . . offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. . LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. . Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. . "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. 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. 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. In one, Ortell warns that there is a movement afoot that wants to homogenize the people and make one race, by mixing all the races up. "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. "I know these people personally.'. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. ", (Linda Walker, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics," under "Science as Culture," originally written in the fall of 1991, updated in the summer of 1999, citations included, at: http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html) Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. Children inherit disabling illnesses. 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. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. I pass the dairy, the zoo, the park, the former birthing clinic, the condemned high school built on a foundation of adobe bricks, and so on. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. . And then there are the more livable genetic conditions. 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.. 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. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. . "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. "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. In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' Gallup Panel survey [conducted in August 2006] show[ed] that Americans are much more likely to believe most Mormons endorse practicing polygamy than to believe most Americans support it. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. . I wonder aloud. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. . . 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, . 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. on the history of the fundamentalist community. 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. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. . "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. . . Three of his wives are his half-sisters. . I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. Something along the lines of, to build a superhuman, if you have four or five defects to get the one good one, its worth it, he recalled. for Nathanael Allred's baby. "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. Jonathan Turner, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, hypothesized exactly that, in an article published by the ABC news network in 2008. Convinced they are breeding a pure white master race, they blame the mother if a deformed baby is born then preach she was unrighteous or unclean. 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. Carolyn Yvonne Kingston was born in 1938 in Elmo, Utah, to Charles Elden Kingston, and his first wife Ethel Gustafson, so she was the daughter of the first prophet of the Kingston Clan. Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer, which produces sniper rifles and so-called bullpup rifles, The latter, unlike conventional magazine-fed rifles, have shorter barrels, with the guns action located behind the trigger. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. . . . . There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. . " Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. 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. "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. There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. 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.'. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. "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. . The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. "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. Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. D. Michael Quinn, former Brigham Young University professor, states, 'The Mormon practice of polygamy enabled men to marry daughters, nieces, cousins, granddaughters and former wives of other General Authorities.'. The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. "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. . . 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. . _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. "Nearly everyone in Colorado City, Arizona, and the adjacent town of Hildale, Utah, was a member of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that practices polygamy and had long encouraged multiple marriages between close relatives. I didnt even know the n-word was bad until I was like 15 or 16, she told Intelligence Report. One child born with an incomplete liver died. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. Elden also instituted the church law of one above the other, requiring members blind obedience to the churchs hierarchy of numbered men, with Elden being Brother Number One. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' That means the number of cases likely will grow. There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. Matt Browning seems less sure. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. . Also known as the LDCJC, the Kingston Clan, and The Order, it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. The defect might be caused by genetics, infection, radiation, or drug exposure, or there might be no known reason. 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. ("Doctrine & Covenants," Section 132, verses 55, 62-63), "Joseph Smith also testified an angel with a sword came to him many times and commanded him to practice polygamy or else he would lose his life. Snow began dating men when he was 22. "Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. "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. Ron Tucker went so far as to call his former brethren white supremacists, and ten times more racist than your run-of-the-mill skinhead. "'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. As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. "Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. . 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. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. 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. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. Men make all decisions affecting her health. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. 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. 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. . Even the few highly educated people there . Tucker is another of Ortells many sons, though not from the favored wife, LaDonna. From the article, "Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions": "[Mormon] Church founder, Joseph Smith, said he received a revelation from God, which is still canonized Mormon scripture as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132. "It was . . 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. . . "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. 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. And, because this cult is so tight-knit and averse to strangers, the gene pool is rather limited. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. . . . . . mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. . . ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). "How do you keep track of that?" The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase. . Obviously, we would love to.. 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. "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. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. 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. Almost everyone here is some variation of cousin, and, until Warren was locked up and decided to put a hold on all marriages, most men and women were paired together in order to preserve certain esteemed bloodlines. . 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. That's still gross." Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy 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. 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. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. 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 "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". Mormons can now see why American citizens passed laws intended to stop polygamy, a relic of unwise prophecy, laws continuously disregarded in Utah, a state controlled by the Mormon Church, if they will only look. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. 5, p. 22. "There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year," says Ron. . Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. . 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). 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. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. . . Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. There is no sign. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. . Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. "Today, six sons and two daughters of John Ortell and LaDonna have married at least 20 half-sisters, nieces and first cousins, giving birth to a family tree that twists and tangles, and, at times, withers with children born of genetic deficiencies. Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. _____. . The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. 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. First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. July 1, 2020. 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. 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. "For more than 70 years, all marriages in the isolated towns have been arranged by the leader of the FLDS, a breakaway sect of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church. Elden continued the tradition. . These men are living freely in the Cane Beds area. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. His half-sisters ) are half-sister and brother, even Medical experts ] carries much truth, ' says. Epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves among Mormonism 's Adherents. 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