Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. Elden continued the tradition. 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." Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. Hospital harm., While part of The Order, Val Snow, a twenty-something gay man with a wry sense of humor, believed being gay was like spitting in the eye of God. Snow is the son of Daniel Kingston, whom he paints as a little man with a lot of power.. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. 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. But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. . One child born with an incomplete liver died. 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. 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. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. 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. That's the big problem.' A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. on the history of the fundamentalist community. "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. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. . And then there are the more livable genetic conditions. . It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. . "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. 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. 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. "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. Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? . 'Maybe it will just self-destruct,' historian Bistline says of the fundamentalist church he quit 20 years ago because of a dispute over religious doctrine and property ownership. 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. . . Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. . . . Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. . requote from Steve's excellent post ! . 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. Gallup Panel survey [conducted in August 2006] show[ed] that Americans are much more likely to believe most Mormons endorse practicing polygamy than to believe most Americans support it. "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. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. (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. The 43-year-old Kingston took the witness stand for the prosecution about 2:40 p.m. and is expected to answer questions through Thursday. "'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. 11, p. 128, ". "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. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler 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). Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. 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. The stage was set for the appearance of the rare disease when their 12th child, Martha Jessop, married her second cousin, John Yeates Barlow, in 1923, according to LDS genealogy data and Colorado City historian Ben Bistline. Another is a first cousin. Naming a father could expose the truth, unveil secrets of paternity and subject the clan to further scrutiny from those who don't approve of incest. breeding really functional? 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. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. . 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' "The few dissenters in the community say the serious genetic problems that are beginning to surface are an indication that the closed FLDS society could eventually collapse. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. That sister, too, dealt with a lot of respiratory problems with her kids, "because of the relation," Dawna explains. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". Intelligence Report then read the names of women believed to be his wives four in all. 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. . When this got around to his dad, his father packed up Snows belongings and left them in the room of a hotel owned by The Order. But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. . Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. Obviously, we would love to.. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . . Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah, an Incorporated Utah Non-profit Corporation Has a Mission to Promote Joyful Living, Rational Think)ing, and Responsible Behavior," July 2005, at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html) 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. According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. 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. . [Andrea] Moore-Emmett [author of 'God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped'] contends that [in polygamy] incest, statutory rape, torture, physical abuse, forced marriages, and trafficking of girls is rampant. The Kingstons teach that they are descended from Jesus Christ and these incestous marriages are intended to keep the bloodline pure, but instead have resulted in numerous Clan members being born with disabilties or birth defects, and it's not really that surprising to note that at one point during the second season of Escaping Polygamy, one of Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. "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. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. lucky . This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. 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. . . The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Obsessed with the purity of their bloodline and empowered by a sense of entitlement on par with the divine right of kings, the Kingstons have made incest the cornerstone of a self-serving theology that loathes non whites, fosters homophobia and abhors government authority. According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. . They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. 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. offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. . Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. . 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. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. And, because this cult is so tight-knit and averse to strangers, the gene pool is rather limited. Something along the lines of, to build a superhuman, if you have four or five defects to get the one good one, its worth it, he recalled. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. . These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. Former Order members tell of babies being born nearly every week in the church. . Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? _____, --How "God's Genes" Do Ugly Things: The Biological Attack on "Modern"-day Followers of Mormonism's Originally-"Revealed" Doctrine of Polygamy. One is a first cousin. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. Some of these marriages will include parents who both are carriers of the fumarase deficiency gene, making it certain that more children will be afflicted with the disease. . "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. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. From the "Phoenix New Timms" article, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children": "Colorado City resident Isaac Wyler says FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs is trying to create the 'perfect race.'. . . "Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston--John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell--has been criminally charged with incest. Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. LeBaron Jr. has been accused by three of his own sons, who purport to have DNA evidence obtained by saliva samples, of fathering four children with his own biological daughter. "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. . . 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. There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. Structural Birth Defects. The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. 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. Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal . These men are living freely in the Cane Beds area. . SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. . . died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . "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. . Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. "'I tried to get people to come, but nobody would listen,' says the mother, who left the group and her marriage after her sons were diagnosed with dwarfism. Once free of the cult, Lu Ann, Allison and other ex-Order members have had to unlearn the hatred that was drilled into their heads. "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. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. . . There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year. 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. Wyler says he once saw a fumarase deficiency child suffer a seizure while she was sitting with her mother and two other children also suffering from the disorder. 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. . greatly increases, medical experts say. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. . Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. . That apparently was John Ortell Kingston's intent, although most studies of first-cousin mating show their offspring test lower on IQ exams, Jorde says. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) 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. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. So what about polygamy? . Tucker is another of Ortells many sons, though not from the favored wife, LaDonna. . "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. Below are further horrific details of the Kingston clan's "God-given genetic calamity, brought to you courtesy of Joseph Smith's Mormonism, as reported in the "Salt Lake Tribune" article, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet": ". From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. "By the late 1990s, Tarby and his team had discovered fumarase deficiency was occurring in the greatest concentration in the world among the fundamentalist Mormon polygamists of northern Arizona and southern Utah. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. But The Orders critics say that cult members see nothing wrong with bilking the government, a time-honored tradition among FLDS sects, gleefully referred to as bleeding the beast.. . "For Colorado City and Hildale to avoid more fumarase, polygamist leaders must use their authority to make sure that those potentially carrying the fumarase gene are not allowed to marry, says geneticist Aleck. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. 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.' "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. When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. "And my oldest daughter, she's 18 and she's dated a couple of my cousins, which makes them her second cousins, and we're like, Eww, that's gross.". Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. 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. 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. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. . It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. 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. . 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