"Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. This is a humane coping strategy devised to deal with a dilemma that devastated a woman taught from birth her only value was in the number of children she bore for the Kingdom of God. "Our ancestral destiny meant we might give birth to sons who would die at maturity or daughters who would carry the trait to the next generation of sons. 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. . We would cause harm, he confessed. "In polygamy . 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). That's the big problem.' The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. Just under eight miles southeast of Short Creek is an area called Cane Beds, Arizona. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). 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. From an "Associated Press" news report, "Doctor: Birth Defects Increase in Polygamy Community": "A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border, according to a doctor who has treated many of the children. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. . "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. "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. . Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story, the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, an article published by the ABC news network, the fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints. . "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. 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. . By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. 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. "How do you keep track of that?" The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. . 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. Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. 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. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . . The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. . From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. . . "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? "FLDS marriages, Wyler and other community experts say, are an extension of a breeding program that began with Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in the 1830s. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. "Fast-forward . A stern disciplinarian, who in later years looked and dressed like a mortician, Ortell made incest a tenet of the clans faith, informed by his work breeding Holstein cows on the Kingstons dairy farm. 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. . "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. 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. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. . . Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. . Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. "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. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. . "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. That leads to problems." 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. ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. 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. . . "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. . requote from Steve's excellent post ! Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. His seven sons and two daughters by LaDonna Peterson, the second of his 13 wives, are reputed to be the inner circle that runs the cult. Three of his wives are his half-sisters. . ", (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) Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. Black blood was the worst thing you can have, Jessica said, particularly since the Kingstons consider themselves to be the whitest of the white, descended directly from Jesus Christ and King David, the Middle Eastern origins of both men notwithstanding. . That means the number of cases likely will grow. 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. ', "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.'. One such. . . 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. [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. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. 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. 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." . 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. 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. . 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. . "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. . . Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. . They ought to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices; and it is not to be wondered at that they should envy those who so much better understand the social relations. Jeffs is following a long-established practice -- started by Smith 170 years ago -- of excommunicating those who do not strictly adhere to church leaders' commands. "Every person carries some lethal genes. Another significant group is the Kingston Clan, also known as "The Order" and officially the Latter Day Church of Christ, with about 2000 members scattered throughout Utah. I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. . . And the graveyard grew exponentially.". . . I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. Accounts of clan babies being born with congenital defects and other problems abound, including dwarfism, albinism and children born minus fingernails or without genitals. 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. The Twelve Apostles of Mormonism then acted to increase this familial relationship by marrying other relatives until in 1877, at the end of Brigham Youngs reign as Mormon Prophet and King, the polygamous hierarchy became l00% interrelated. . Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . 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 . "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. . . One child born with an incomplete liver died. In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" So many young people.'. During an interview with this reporter, Lu Ann Kingston, whose defiance of the cult led to the conviction of her former spiritual husband Jeremy, recalled that Order members saw intermarriage as a way to keep the bloodline pure., All outsiders are considered to be beneath Order members, she explained. 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. 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. the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. They steer clear of banks,. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. . This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. . She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. "There is too little empirical data of uncle-niece, half-brother/half-sister mating to draw firm conclusions about the IQ, survival rates, birth defects or longevity of their offspring, he says. "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. "You have to either accept" the responsibility of caring for so many children with major healthcare needs "or let it destroy you," says this man, whose wife recently suffered a stroke. . "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. "There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble because he was having children with these young girls, so he said, 'Well, I never had sex with themI used a turkey baster.'" She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . ". 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. . 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 teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. . . provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. . . Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. That will open up for The Order to rise up and take over the world, Ron said. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. . SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. 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. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' . The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. "A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border, according to a doctor who has treated many of the children. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. . "'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. soon . "It wasn't until I left the FLDS and moved away from the community that I realized I'd been to an unusually high number of funerals growing up in the Creek," says Alyssa Bistline over a crackling phone connection. The lawyers words call to mind another heavenly curse, described in 2 Nephi, Chapter 5 of the Book of Mormon, where God caused a skin of blackness to come upon a group called the Lamanites, supposedly ancestors of Native Americans. Bad harm. 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 . "A Secretive Refrain: . . "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. Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. "Dr. Vinodh Narayanan, a pediatric neurologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, says he is seeking funding to develop a test that would allow public health officials to collect voluntary blood samples from as many FLDS members as possible. "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. 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. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. The company was founded in 2007 with an investment from family members. Even the few highly educated people there . . 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. '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. We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. 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, . "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. I wonder aloud. 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. . Meanwhile, Mary Ann Kingston, 22, has brought a $110 million civil suit against 242 Order members and 97 companies they operate, claiming that they share collective responsibility for abuse she. . Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. . And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. The son of Pauls sister Rachel herself a daughter of Ortell and LaDonna Kingston Young was the only current member of the Kingston clan, out of the many contacted for this story, who consented to a live, on-the-record interview. 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