The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. . . The defect might be caused by genetics, infection, radiation, or drug exposure, or there might be no known reason. . . Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. "It was . When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. And then there are the more livable genetic conditions. . . . . 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. 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.. . Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. . There are baby graves year that date back as earlier as the 1950s, potentially even earlier: many are unmarked. . ", (Greg Burton, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet: Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous groups," in "The Salt Lake Tribune," 25 April 1999, at: http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html 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.'. 5, p. 22. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. . "'Incest as a policy or routine practice is rare,' says Melvin Williams, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and a leading expert in the study of kinship systems. Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. . . 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. . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. 13, p. 195, "We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they (non-Mormons) envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. . . . "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. : 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. refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. 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. So what about polygamy? . They got married and contacted the . 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. "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. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? Yeah, I believe in it, he said. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. 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. . Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. . The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. Almost everyone here is some variation of cousin, and, until Warren was locked up and decided to put a hold on all marriages, most men and women were paired together in order to preserve certain esteemed bloodlines. 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. 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": ". Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. . . I owe my children and all children who risk becoming the next unwitting victims of this tragic genetic legacy the best information regarding the prevention of this lethal family inheritance that I can find. In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. . . . 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. . 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. . Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. . The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled 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. "Fast-forward . When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. . "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.' Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. . Since the natural male-to-female ratio is roughly 50-50, the ratio must be manipulated so that there are more females than males for polygamy to work. 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. . Three of his wives are his half-sisters. 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. . Ron says the cults justification for its racism goes back to early Mormon teachings about a war in heaven between the forces of Satan and those of Jesus. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. . The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. "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. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' '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. . . 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. on the history of the fundamentalist community. There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. Now, let's examine how "God-ordained" Mormon polygamy has wreaked unholy genetic havoc on its faithful followers: --Case Study on Polygamous Mormonism's Genetic Disease Striking Home: The Linda Walker Story. 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. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. . sr. . Carolyn. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. 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. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. Children inherit disabling illnesses. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. "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. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. . 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 . "'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. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. soon . Snow began dating men when he was 22. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. . Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. 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. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "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. . This is a humane coping strategy devised to deal with a dilemma that devastated a woman taught from birth her only value was in the number of children she bore for the Kingdom of God. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. "Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. 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. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. The last infant grave marked in this cemetery is dated 2010; Warren issued an edict from prison banning sex in 2011, so few infants have been born since then (the few babies born each year are the product of institutionalized rape by cult-appointed seed bearers). 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. . In addition to this issue, since the rulers . "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. 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. . When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. "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. . . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. "Wyler said it's all part of the community's religious system. 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. 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. . Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. 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. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). . "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. This is why those laws need to be enforced. . 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. . The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. "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. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. "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.". Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. . KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. I wonder aloud. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. . Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. . 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. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. . Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. . 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. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. 'I really doubt that if we could tell them, you know, "This male has the condition and this female has the condition; you shouldn't mate," that wouldn't stop them,' he said. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. . . 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.. "It is Moore-Emmett's belief that the LDS Church who started polygamy in this country should take responsibility and provide financial aid and other resources for those polygamous families who have been abused. That's the big problem.' Well, my sister had a little baby with a cleft lip; it was her first child and it had a cleft lip and cleft palate, because they were both Jessops, and Jessops are carriers of that gene. _____. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). . Those who did not make it into the UO were separated from their families, placed in patchwork homes of other UO "orphans," and told to repent. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. They steer clear of banks,. "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. . These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. . 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. . breeding really functional? "A Secretive Refrain: . Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. At least six of Merlin's incestuously conceived children in turn married half-siblings, couplings that subsequently produced children with various deformities, says Rowenna Erickson, an ex-member who left her polygamous husband. . "Every person carries some lethal genes. [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 girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. materials or even attempted to focus team and society have a kingston clan member was charged with birth defects increase becomes apparent similarities than. A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. "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. . But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. . "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . One is a first cousin. 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . Appointments & Access. "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' Many of the souls interred here lived not longer than a day, some just two days, two weeks, or two years. . One man, who asks to remain nameless to protect his and his family's privacy, describes a lifetime of round-the-clock care and too-frequent hospital visits for his five sons. . "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . Its ominous-sounding moniker, The Order, is a reference to the United Order, a quasi-utopian society proposed by LDS-founder Joseph Smith, and practiced in some Mormon communities under the leadership of early church president Brigham Young. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. "I'm like, Really? . "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . And, because this cult is so tight-knit and averse to strangers, the gene pool is rather limited. "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. "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. "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. 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. Cases of fumarase deficiency have shown up in the FLDS communities in Colorado City and Hildale, and doctors believe that the incidence of the condition in these communities will increase in coming generations. Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. . 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. The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. According to church lore, The Order came into existence when founder Charles Elden Kingston saw Jesus in the mountains above the familys settlement in Bountiful, Utah, inspiring him to create the DCCS in 1935. From the article, "Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions": "[Mormon] Church founder, Joseph Smith, said he received a revelation from God, which is still canonized Mormon scripture as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132. greatly increases, medical experts say. "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. and last updated 1:46 PM, Feb 24, 2021. "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. _____. "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. [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. and cousins. . "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . All of this is to say that incest and inbreeding have been going on for so longand so prevalentlyin the polygamous sects along the Utah/Arizona border that these stories have been woven into the fiber of the communities. . "The genetic defect has been traced back to one of the community's founding patriarchs, the late Joseph Smith Jessop, and the first of his plural wives, according to medical literature, the Mormon Church genealogy database and residents of the community familiar with Jessop and Barlow family histories. . "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. Dawna asks me. . ". "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. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "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. Matt Browning seems less sure. 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