The Latter Day Church of Christ, is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. . The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm, http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html, http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html, http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723. 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. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. . "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. . 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. Fumarase deficiency, however sensationalized, is not the only genetic disorder found here. greatly increases, medical experts say. . Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. . There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. A simple urine test will reveal. They can't do anything by themselves. "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. From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. It's the kids who are disproportionately handicapped as compared to the demographics of any other comparably small town. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. 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. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' soon . 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 . By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. . . breeding really functional? . . 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. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? "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 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). July 1, 2020. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. . Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. 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. . "It's like any inbred disorder," Tarby says. Because that one is going to be genius-level purity, and thats what The Order is looking for., Photo Credit: AP Images / Leah Hogsten, Pool (John Daniel Kingston); AP Images / Jeffrey D. Allred / Pool (Jeremy Kingston), SPLC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 63-0598743). deficiency. . . . And they are growing. . (KUTV) Weeks after a Kingston polygamist clan member was charged in the death of her child, former members of that group are speaking out about what they say is a much bigger problem. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. . Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . . One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. "Genetics of Incest: Pre-eclampsia is a condition that can be traced genetically from one generation to the next and is prevalent among some Kingstons, Rugg says. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. FOX 13 . The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. 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. 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. "Tarby and a team of doctors from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson began researching the disease and soon discovered that fumarase deficiency was occurring in at least two other families living in the same isolated community that practiced an unusual custom. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. . Before the call ended, Young insisted that he didnt admit to any kind of incest or anything. When Intelligence Report inquired if Young thought there was anything wrong with first cousins getting married, Young opined that such issues were between the individuals involved and God. Aleck is a geneticist who participated along with Tarby and others in the groundbreaking study of several polygamous families with fumarase deficiency in the late 1990s. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' . "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. . 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. . . [i]n a secret church ceremony. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). . The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. Obviously, we would love to.. Certainly if MORmON Jesus had done this, we would hear all about it from the LDS as *proof* that God was doing his modern work via MORmONISM, but alas there is no such manifestation ! "During this early period, polygamy was practiced secretly by the Mormon leadership, men who covertly preached and expanded polygamy while publicly deceiving the general Mormon population about the practice. "Researchers have identified a gene on the first chromosome that causes fumarase deficiency, but no test has been developed that could be used to identify individuals carrying the malady. . "Ex-members' claims of incest are bolstered by court records claiming John Ortell 'failed either to support or acknowledge' three children by his niece, (Susan) Mary Gustafson. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . . Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. . 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. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. Dawna says that, when people refer to what's going on over in the Cane Beds, they say it's probably another turkey baster situation. That means the number of cases likely will grow. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. "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. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . Which brings us back to the baby cemetery. 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. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. . " According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. 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. ". Still more, rather cryptically, feature child-size palm and footprints. . ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. and cousins. "'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. . "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. I didnt even know the n-word was bad until I was like 15 or 16, she told Intelligence Report. . I could see that the leaders of The Order really did believe we had black ancestors, Ron explained, with Christy next to him, and his adult daughters Emily and Julie nearby. . The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. . . . "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. Bad harm. . Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. They can't sit up. 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. 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. . . Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' 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. 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. 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." . "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. . . In 2006, Warren Jeffs, then the president and prophet of the FLDS, was arrested and charged with accomplice rape, for just two of the underage marriages he had arranged. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 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. materials or even attempted to focus team and society have a kingston clan member was charged with birth defects increase becomes apparent similarities than. He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. . "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. The chickens are coming home to roost. . [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. . . . 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . . "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. That leads to problems." Her younger sister Emily thought it was a joke, too, until one day another Order kid told her, We cant play with you because the Tuckers are n------.. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is a polygamous sect straddling the Utah and Arizona state lines; the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, are known collectively as Short Creek (pronounced "crick"). 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. Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. . 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. They predict the scale of the problem will increase dramatically in the future. "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. "John Ortell Kingston was the first Kingston to experiment with incest, marrying and bearing children with two half-sisters and two nieces, according to numerous ex-members of the clan. She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . . Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. . 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. . I hate to talk like this about my own genealogy,' Wyler says, 'but, literally, they are keeping all the breeding stock--the women, the [strictly faithful] men--and weeding out the disobedient men. 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. . Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. _____. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. . [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . 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. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. . . Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. unavailable to researchers. . 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. They have no movement. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. Even the few highly educated people there . Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. . . . . It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. requote from Steve's excellent post ! . . 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.' "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. . Dawna's husband is a brother to her older sister's husband, "but they're only half brothers, so him and I aren't blood-related at all, because he was from the youngest mother, which had no relation to us other than marriage, and then my sister was married to the older brother and his mom and my grandmother were full sisters.". 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. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' . As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. . Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. 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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. 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. . "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. . "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. 'A lady comes in and helps her. . "The genetic defect has been traced back to one of the community's founding patriarchs, the late Joseph Smith Jessop, and the first of his plural wives, according to medical literature, the Mormon Church genealogy database and residents of the community familiar with Jessop and Barlow family histories. "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. . 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. 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. . Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. . A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. The letter asserts that one of the earliest members of the church was a Native American man and that the Co-op, as it is sometimes called, has been the victim of prejudice and harassment by Utahs majority religion (i.e., the LDS church) because of the formers progressive ideas. "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . . Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. 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. the FLDS has the highest known rate of a rare genetic disorder called "fumarase deficiency" that causes severe birth defects. . sw. htm>. While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. . "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. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. John Daniel Kingston seen here in 1999, pleading no contest to beating his 16-year-old daughter after she attempted to flee an arranged marriage with her uncle David, Kingstons brother. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. "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. . Structural Birth Defects. Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, . "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. . They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. [T]he one-wife system not only degenerates the human family, both physically and intellectually, but it is entirely incompatible with philosophical notions of immortality; it is a lure to temptation, and has always proved a curse to a people. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. 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. 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. "'My guess is this man had used some of these inbreeding practices in his herd so he was probably in the camp that believed superior genetics could be propagated in a particular line,' Green says. '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. Those who did not make it into the UO were separated from their families, placed in patchwork homes of other UO "orphans," and told to repent. Kingston clan birth defects. "I'm like, Really? Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. 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 . 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. Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. . the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. . As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". 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