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. . "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. 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"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. . . They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. Paul continued to practice his fathers ideas regarding intra-family marriages. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. . . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. Men make all decisions affecting her health. One brother, John Daniel Kingston, was taken to court for neglecting this children. After all, polygamy is illegal in the US. Video unavailable This video. . . One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. "Fast-forward . "Until the test is available, Tarby says, the best prevention measure remains refraining from crossing Barlows, Jessops and their relations--who make up half the population of the polygamist enclave. 75.119.192.80 . 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. . 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. . But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. . on the history of the fundamentalist community. "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. . "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. 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.'. "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. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 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. ", "C250 - Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee", "DCCS Self-Sustaining Policy, Contributions to the Community", "The Polygamist Accused of Scamming the U.S. Out of $500 Million", "Former WRE CEO testifies about money paid to DCCS Entities", "Jury Finds Los Angeles Businessman Guilty in $1 Billion Biodiesel Tax Fraud Scheme", "Polygamists Admit $512 Million Fraud for U.S. Fuel-Tax Credits", "CEO And CFO Of Utah Biodiesel Company And California Businessman Charged In $500 Million Fuel Tax Credit Scheme", "WRE Defendants arrested and awaiting trial", "Trial postponed for last defendant in fraud case involving members of the Kingston polygamous family", "Complaint and Jury Demand, Grant, et al. It is true that the LDS Church has collected tithes and offerings in the millions of dollars over the past decades. unavailable to researchers. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. 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. . ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. . . . "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' In recent years, former members have lobbied for law enforcement to take action against the sect. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. 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. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. . This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. All went bareheaded and barefoot. ". Despite its on-going public relations effort to convince Americans that Mormons don't really support polygamy (and despite the belief of many devout Mormons that polygamy came from God as revealed church doctrine which will eventually be reinstated when Jesus returns to the Earth), a quarter of Americans surveyed also have expressed the opinion that most Mormons embrace the idea of plural marriage: "A . . Tarby recounts a conversation he had with a member of the Barlow clan in which he tried to explain why so much fumarase deficiency was occurring among Mormon polygamists. . The Kingston Group is not affiliated withthe Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based on the Utah-Arizona line that is run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexually assaulting girls he considered brides. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . . 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 ! . [19] For many years, members of the Co-operative lived in poor conditions, and those in need had no legal way to apply for assistance. 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). ". . . 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . . It is the power of God through the law or covenant of consecration given to Brother Elden in 1935. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. . . 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' . Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. Women and girls, after theyre married, submit to their husbands and men answer to higher-ranked men, the suit alleges. Article continues below advertisement For the sisters, escaping polygamy is really real. 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. "[2], According to a 2011 document prepared by the attorneys general of the states of Utah and Arizona, the church describes itself as emphasizing family values, education, self-sufficiency, and the belief that every child is a priceless blessing. Performance & security by Cloudflare. ", (Joseph Carroll, "One in Four Americans Think Most Mormons Endorse Polygamy; Only 2% Think Most Americans Support Polygamy," by Gallup News Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 7 September 2006, at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e). "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. . 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 . LuAnn Kingston, a former member of the clan who in 1995 at age fifteen was forced to marry her first cousin, shared: The joke used to be that if you werent married by 17, you were an old maid.[5], Within the Kingston Group, the primary polygamists are the immediate Kingston family and heirs. When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. His father wrote: Brother Elden received a new covenant up on the top of the highest mountain that is east of Bountiful, Utah. . . ", (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) [50][51], Davis County Cooperative leadership and members swiftly condemned the fraudulent behavior stating that "[Jacob] broke from tradition in many ways" and stressing "to members and non-members alike that this behavior is not in line with our beliefs or principles." Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. It alleges sex trafficking, sexual battery and child abuse, and seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. 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. [23] The group claims no preference for any particular family or surname stating members join every year "from a variety of different backgrounds and surnames. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. "The discoveries and research within my own kindred so alarmed me that I studied other descendants of polygamy to see if their families also suffered from crippling illnesses. Well, law enforcement often tends to look the other way in cases like polygamy, unless specific reports reach the agencies. . ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). . It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. [40] In 2009, the then-Attorney General of Utah, Mark Shurtleff, claimed that child marriages within polygamous societies in Utah, such as the Latter Day Church of Christ, had "effectively stopped". . [37], The Kingston family and other members of the LDCC have faced two lawsuits, one in 2006[38] and another in 2022[39] accusing members and the organization as a whole of sexual abuses, including pedophilia and underaged marriages, within their membership. . "In polygamy . 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 . "Finally exposed in the news, the facts of life inside [the Mormon offshoot Kingston clan's] religious/cult compound are stunning Mormons, Utahans, the nation, and the world. . . Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. "There is no doubt in the mind of any expert interviewed by 'New Times' that the practice of polygamy combined with inbreeding has fostered the spread of fumarase deficiency. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . In fact, the leaders of the Co-op just seem to be getting richer and the poor get essentially ignored. The Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes the Kingston clan as an " incest and white supremacy " group for its practices outlined in Escaping Polygamy, which include teaching children to not associate themselves with non-white people and, as mentioned by the lawsuit, marrying underage children off to family members of The Order. Kingston members today generally claim that keys were received anew from heavenly messengers directly to Elden in 1935, although it appears he left no formal testimony to that effect. 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. [46], In July 2019, Jacob Kingston, Isaiah Kingston, and two others pled guilty to participating in a fraud scheme masterminded by Lev Derman, a non-member and Armenian national. . Unfortunately, there are also numerous reports of members who lived in squalor in order to advance the monetary gains of the Co-op. Some 42 different Klan groups were active in 22 . Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. . That means the number of cases likely will grow. After two years of investigating, they did not find any welfare fraud. ". [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. "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. That's the big problem.' . "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. Why is this? While Charles W. Kingston was the first to oppose the Church, the primary mover in the Kingston Group was his son Elden. However, the group reiterated its belief that "bleeding the beast" was "abhorent" and was "never a tenet" of its organization. We specifically read that the law of consecration is designed to administer to the poor and the needy (D&C 42:35). "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . . . . . . "[44] Members claim they have been broadly and unfairly targeted by authorities for the negative actions of a small few. . David Kingston is alleged to have married his 16-year-old niece Mary Ann Nelson, who attempted to run away but was apprehended and beaten by her father, John Daniel Kingston. . If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. "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. "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. Now, this might well be the case, with the . 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. . Jeremy Kingston was sentenced to a year in prison in 2004 for taking LuAnn Kingston, his cousin and aunt, as his fourth wife in 1994; their relationship began when he was 24 and she was 15. These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. David Kingston was released from prison in 2003. . (Patricia was one of Kingston's 14 wives, and the clip does not reveal whether she is still alive.) "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. Garrad's Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. Kingston Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter, This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 17:32. And in 1999, David Ortell Kingston Jeremy Kingston's uncle was sentenced to the Utah State Prison for up to 10 years for committing incest with the 16-year-old niece who became his 15th 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. Three others, including Grant, said they had to flee to escape such a fate. [49] As part of the plea deal and restitution, the company forfeits rights to a number of assets including their bio-fuel plant in Plymouth, Utah. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. ozpoof "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. As a symbol of their renunciation of worldly goods, the outer clothing contained no pockets in which possessions could be carried, although later an inside pocket was provided for the sanitary measure of carrying a handkerchief. hello Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. 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. Those unions fell within Utahs consanguinity restrictions and, if discovered, would be considered incestuous under the laws of the state. . [7] Members of the Latter Day Church of Christ are also members of the Davis County Cooperative Society (a separate organization and legal entity) which practices the law of consecration and United Order. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. That leads to problems." "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . Escaping Polygamy is an American documentary television series that premiered on December 30, 2014, on LMN.The show now airs on Lifetime, but can also be viewed on Tubi, and follows the work of three sisters who left the Kingston clan, a polygamous group based in Salt Lake City, Utah known as The Order, as they help family and/or friends break free of polygamy. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. The Kingston Group stopped proselytizing new converts when the cooperative became successful, and today they perform no missionary work of any kind. . "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . 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. Elden passed away from cancer in 1948 and was succeeded by his brother John Ortell Kingston (commonly known as Ortell). 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. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' Reportedly, Paul and his brother each have dozens of wives and hundreds of children. . . mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. A Kingston Family Primer. . [12] In 1977, Elden's brother Ortell Kingston began to file for legal recognition of the church later organized as The Latter Day Church of Christ. . 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. The current leader of the Kingston Clan is Paul Elden Kingston, and it is reported that he has up to 27 wives (including three half-sisters) and some wives have as many as 18 children. "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. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. 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. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more. LDS scripture teaches that in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established (D&C 6:28; 2 Cor. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) The suit includes ten former members alleging the organization used marriages to "unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes". All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. . . [21] Over the past 25 years, many members have become college-educated and live in middle-to-upper-middle-class homes throughout their communities. 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. Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. . . 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. "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. A recently created critical website can be viewed atwww.kingstonclan.com. 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. Daughters of men in the Co-op would be married off at young ages. 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. "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.

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