As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. 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." . These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. Two of her sisters married their first cousinsmen with whom they share the same grandfather; the sons of their father's second wife, who is their mother's full sister. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. deficiency. Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. In the polygamist cult of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, cousins were encouraged to marry in order to preserve certain bloodlines. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "He sent her to live in a coal yard with other polygamous wives and their many children in South Salt Lake, visiting her rarely and usually only to have sex, she testified. "In polygamy . This racist display was no one-off. 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. 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. So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. "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. The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. . My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . "There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece," she continues. . . 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. "Her book . . In it, black people come close to killing off the white race until they are countered by Native Americans, symbolized by a Red Horse, which gallops to the White Horses rescue. 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. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. 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. Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. His brother, John Ortell Kingston, took over the leadership of The Order incorporated in the 1970s as the Latter Day Church of Christ. 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. . 3, p. 291, "I have noticed that a man who has but one wife, and is inclined to that doctrine, soon begins to wither and dry up, while a man who goes into plurality [of wives] looks fresh, young, and sprightly. . for Nathanael Allred's baby. 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. restricted in some polygamous sects, including FLDS groups in Colorado City, Arizona; Hildale, Utah; and West Texas, that force some of the young males to leave the communities . The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. Various congenital and genital defects, dwarfism, fused limbs, fingernails lacking, mental illness and mental retardation, spina bifida, and microcephalous are some of the diseases and mutations. 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. The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. 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"). . There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. . 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. 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. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. . Ron Rohbock, 64, who was kicked out of the FLDS in 2002 after serving on church security for decades at Warren and Rulon Jeffs' side, has a different answer. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. . If the FLDS faithful believed that Jeffs was relying on science to determine marriages rather than divine revelation from God, he could lose control of the church. Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. One ex-Order member, who asked to be referred to as Scott, instead of his real name for fear of retribution by clan members, said hatred of gays was big in the Kingston clan, with the word f----- in frequent use. Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. And another one of her sisters married one of my half-brothers, but we have the same blood and genetics because our moms are full sisters." When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. Just under eight miles southeast of Short Creek is an area called Cane Beds, Arizona. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . She is guiding me all around town, following my route, turn by turn, on Google maps. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. . Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. . [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. . "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? 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. The Order can rightly claim discrimination by mainstream Mormonism, but this is due to its embrace of polygamy, which the LDS church officially abandoned in 1890 in order for Utah to become a state. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. _____. 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.. Polygamy would have afforded the opportunity of producing from that consecrated fatherhood and motherhood the improved type of man the world needs to reveal the highest possibilities of the race, that the day of the super man might come, and with him come also the redemption and betterment of the race.'. 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. ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. In an office several hundred miles from where Young gave his speech, a 10-year . These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. . on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. . "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. . One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. . 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). . Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. They're given the utmost attention and care because the FLDS faithful believe everything in this life is a test before entering the celestial kingdom, and caring well for all of Heavenly Father's children is part of that test. . The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. hello 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. "Two years later, a pair of geneticists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., flew to Utah where they hoped to stage a seminar for Kingston family members about the dangers of incest and birth defects, and, presumably, gain permission to study the clan. 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. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. "It is important that Mormons fight the tendency to discount history and the actions of their leaders in favor of a faith- promoting history while neglecting important facts. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. . 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. . Matt Browning seems less sure. . "I know these people personally.'. . FOX 13 . Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. . Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. 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 chickens are coming home to roost. "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. . . ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) . 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. 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. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene greatly increases, medical experts say. Consanguinity causes aggregate clusters of deleterious genes to collect in families, which then express themselves as rare recessive disorders like nephritis, cystic fibrosis, biliary artesia, albinism, short stature and many others. 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. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. 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). "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. Fumarase deficiency (FD) is an autosomal metabolic recessive disorder, meaning it is necessary for an individual with the condition to receive the mutant allele from both parents. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. . I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. . "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. . 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. Even the few highly educated people there . "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. 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. 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. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. We would cause harm, he confessed. As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. living in Colorado City and Hildale are blood descendants of the Barlows and the Jessops, says Benjamin Bistline, a lifelong resident of the area who has published a book . 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. 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. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . . "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. . . "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . "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. . " . . "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. 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.". Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. Meanwhile, as Mormons wait patiently and faithfully for multi-wifery's official return, the words of their founding Church fathers sound praise to polygamy past, present and future: --The Mormon God's Declaration of Righteous Genetic Combinations: Monogamy is a Christian Blight on Humanity, While Polygamy is the Lord's Way to Produce Fresh, Virile Men; Good-Lookin' Women; and Super Strong Stock to Carry Civilization Into Eternity. . . As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. 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. . Lucky was the first to die in my generation. . 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. ', "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.'. requote from Steve's excellent post ! In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' . The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. he says. . 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 ! Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. . . 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. "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. "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. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. 11, p. 128, ". The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. In a letter to the Intelligence Report responding to allegations made by former members, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative Society, claimed that The Orders foundational principles include the Golden Rule, and that the church rejects any form of racism or bigotry. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde 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. 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. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). . He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. 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. : About half of the 8,000 people living in the towns are blood relatives of two of the founding families that settled in the 1930s on the desolate high desert plateau against the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. . . 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. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. There are also accounts of dead babies being buried at the Holy Spot, a tree-shrouded patch of land across the street from a grade school in Bountiful, just north of Salt Lake City. "Dr. Tarby, who routinely treats fumarase deficiency children at a state-funded clinic in Flagstaff, says, 'They are funny-looking kids [with] biggish heads and coarse, thick features.' "Several Kingston offspring of incestuous couplings also have been born without fingernails, a disease that could be linked to a number of genetically caused abnormalities, although an exact diagnosis is impossible without closer study of medical records. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. 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