joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). 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. . His seven sons and two daughters by LaDonna Peterson, the second of his 13 wives, are reputed to be the inner circle that runs the cult. "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. A stern disciplinarian, who in later years looked and dressed like a mortician, Ortell made incest a tenet of the clans faith, informed by his work breeding Holstein cows on the Kingstons dairy farm. ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. And then there are the more livable genetic conditions. These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. . 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------.. 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. October 15, 2002: "There will be a viewing at father's house at 3p.m. Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. Mormons can now see why American citizens passed laws intended to stop polygamy, a relic of unwise prophecy, laws continuously disregarded in Utah, a state controlled by the Mormon Church, if they will only look. Carolyn. . 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. . From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. breeding really functional? he says. _____. . 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. . . . "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. . They can't sit up. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. 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. So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. These conditions are disproportionately common, relative to the size of the general population, in Short Creek. . . . . . "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. . In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 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. Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . . Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . . . 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. . 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 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. But given that the Kingstons command an estimated 6,000 adherents, boast a business empire reportedly worth as much as $1 billion and have outlasted myriad bouts with law enforcement and the press, these dreams of world domination may be less delusional than they first seem. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . "The widespread presence of the fumarase deficiency gene in the bloodlines of the founding families of Colorado City is going to make reaching any such goal extremely difficult. 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. 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. "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. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. 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. In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). That leads to problems." '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. . "Outside, people don't die that often, and usually they're really old.". 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.. One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". There have also been charges made that some plural wives and their children have . ", (Linda Walker, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics," under "Science as Culture," originally written in the fall of 1991, updated in the summer of 1999, citations included, at: http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html) The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. 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. . In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . . . refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. Okay, I have one legal wife, he said. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. 5, p. 22. . [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. . 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. 11, p. 128, ". lucky One is a first cousin. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. This is why those laws need to be enforced. "Fast-forward . . . offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. . But in a 2News . . One such. Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. 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." "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. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' "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. . As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. And they are growing. the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. '", (John Dougherty, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children," in "Phoenix New Times," 29 December 2005, at: http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html) . 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. . "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. 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. . "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. Additionally, ex-Order members tell of a reputed church prophecy of an End of the World War, an apocalyptic vision that foresees a bloody race war with the Kingstons as the ultimate victors, chosen by their Heavenly Father to rule the world for a millennium. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. 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. . "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. They got married and contacted the . ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. . Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. It gets pretty bleak when it gets that close.' "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. 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.'. 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. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. . He also married a woman descended from polygamy. . _____. [in order] to reduce competition for wives. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". . 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.'. 'We do know there are biological hazards. . . . "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. 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. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. Children inherit disabling illnesses. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. The Latter Day Church of Christ, is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. 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. and is expected to answer questions . 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. "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. 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. "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. This is all compounded by the split between the FLDS and an offshoot group of polygamists that moved to nearby Centennial Park following a disagreement over how the community should be governed, and by whom). Obviously, we would love to.. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. 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. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. [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. 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. . "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. 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. 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. . We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. . 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 . "How do you keep track of that?" . . "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. . "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. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. 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. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. . ("Doctrine & Covenants," Section 132, verses 55, 62-63), "Joseph Smith also testified an angel with a sword came to him many times and commanded him to practice polygamy or else he would lose his life. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. 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. [i]n a secret church ceremony. [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. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . 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. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. There is no doubt about that at all. . 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. Although the official stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is against polygamy, several of the women's stories reveal that LDS leaders dismiss the deviant sects and blame the women who come to them for help. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. . "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. . In one, Ortell warns that there is a movement afoot that wants to homogenize the people and make one race, by mixing all the races up. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. Julie left the cult at age 19. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. . . Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. . . . Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. "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 only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. . . Two are nieces. "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. . . Three of his wives are his half-sisters. A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. 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 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. . That means the number of cases likely will grow. The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. The FLDS started out as a few fringe families in the late 1890s; as more seeking to follow the principal of plural marriage moved to the polygamous towns in the early-to-mid 20th century, the gene pool grew, but by the 90s, under the stricter control of prophet Rulon Jeffs (Warren's father), they were tightening up and selectively marrying and breeding in a sort of misfired eugenics experiment that ultimately yielded its own genetic disorder: fumarase deficiency (FD), otherwise known as Polygamist Down's. Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. Accounts of clan babies being born with congenital defects and other problems abound, including dwarfism, albinism and children born minus fingernails or without genitals. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. "They were called the Second Warders and we were called the First Warders; we weren't supposed to hang out with kids from the Centennial group because they were wicked for having left," she says. 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. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. 'The downside is that if you don't start with good genetics, and if there is baggage in the genes of the individual, inbreeding will uncover that baggage. Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. . 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' . Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. . "Many of the parents did not want to have to deal with some of those children. Or leave. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. . . She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. . . Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. "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. . Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. . "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . 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. I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. "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. . 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. "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. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. . 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