. In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. Tucker recounted the clans version of the apocalypse, the End of the World War, a riff on a prophecy some ascribe to Joseph Smith, called The White Horse Prophecy. . "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. Johnson maintained that The Orders vast array of businesses which includes a grocery store, pawn shops, a garbage disposal business, an insurance company, a politically-influential biofuels plant, and a high-end firearms manufacturer employs individuals of various racial and ethnic minorities. "Every person carries some lethal genes. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. 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. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. . 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. . 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. 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). "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. . Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. 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. "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. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! . Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, with the help of her boyfriend Bryan. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. . . . 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. Through his brother LyleBishop of the FLDS and mouthpiece for his imprisoned brotherJeffs enacted a Judgment wherein FLDS members were asked a series of bizarre personal questions; their answers were judged, and the most righteous were welcomed into the United Order of FLDS elite. When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. . . He believed he had superior bloodlines.' She talked about how you cant associate with black people or anybody of a different race., Based on available evidence, including the accounts of numerous former Order members, the SPLC has designated The Order as a hate group under the category of `general hate.'. The adult residents of Short Creek todayboth those still in the FLDS and those who have left the cultare mostly able-bodied, seemingly healthy individuals. and is expected to answer questions . "Dr. Vinodh Narayanan, a pediatric neurologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, says he is seeking funding to develop a test that would allow public health officials to collect voluntary blood samples from as many FLDS members as possible. And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. 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. . In addition to this issue, since the rulers . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. The first questions were about his background. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. . 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. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. There are baby graves year that date back as earlier as the 1950s, potentially even earlier: many are unmarked. 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. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? "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. Could my childish intuition that the adults and doctors lips were sealed against my questions involve family secrets; secrets relatives took to their graves rather than betray? ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. "'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. . . Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. 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. . Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . 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. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. . Carolyn. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. 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. Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. . Black blood was the worst thing you can have, Jessica said, particularly since the Kingstons consider themselves to be the whitest of the white, descended directly from Jesus Christ and King David, the Middle Eastern origins of both men notwithstanding. "Tarby and a team of doctors from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson began researching the disease and soon discovered that fumarase deficiency was occurring in at least two other families living in the same isolated community that practiced an unusual custom. He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. . Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. . states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . . The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. . And, because this cult is so tight-knit and averse to strangers, the gene pool is rather limited. . 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. Carolyn Yvonne Kingston was born in 1938 in Elmo, Utah, to Charles Elden Kingston, and his first wife Ethel Gustafson, so she was the daughter of the first prophet of the Kingston Clan. Matt Browning seems less sure. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. . The baby cemetery is a mess of overgrown weeds and dry, cracked dirt, home to hundreds of infant and toddler-size graves, not all of them marked. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. . '", (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) 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. "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. . . . Polygamy is outlawed in Utah, both by the states constitution, and in statute, where it is a third-degree felony, with a possible punishment of five years in prison. Tarby. . 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. . "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. . "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' If these couples are . "It wasn't until I left the FLDS and moved away from the community that I realized I'd been to an unusually high number of funerals growing up in the Creek," says Alyssa Bistline over a crackling phone connection. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. 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. Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. Have you also noticed all the genetic and other debilitating defects, deformities and diseases that comes along with your poisoned patriarchal plurality-of-wives club? . "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. 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. 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. 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. 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. . . . For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. That means the number of cases likely will grow. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. The fact that most of the people in the Kingston clan were born into the lifestyle is very key to group think because this is all they know, and some may never question the beliefs even when they age because it has been their whole world all their life. . . According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. Ross LeBaron Jr. recently took to the Internet to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, as well as for LaVoy Finicum, the lone fatality in that ordeal. . "Like his father-in-law, John Y. Barlow became one of the towering patriarchs of the fundamentalist Mormon community and served as FLDS prophet from 1935 until his death in 1949. . Dawna's husband is a brother to her older sister's husband, "but they're only half brothers, so him and I aren't blood-related at all, because he was from the youngest mother, which had no relation to us other than marriage, and then my sister was married to the older brother and his mom and my grandmother were full sisters.". Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. . Some feature more expensive-looking gravestones, and include, beyond names and dates, terms of endearment such as: "Sweet baby girl," "Our son," and "Heaven's very special child." Asked about these legends, Kingston spokesman Kent Johnson, explained via email that on occasion Order families have asked to spread the ashes of a child lost before or after birth at the Holy Spot. "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. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . Tucker is another of Ortells many sons, though not from the favored wife, LaDonna. Or leave. . . . They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. This denial is hollow considering the record. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. . 6.3M views 6 years ago Profiles by VICE S1 E23 Although the mainstream Mormon church abandoned polygamy over 100 years ago, many splinter groups across Utah still practice plural marriage. . He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. At the time this inbreeding took place these prophets preached and practiced modern eugenic science, the science of controlling the traits of future populations through selective breeding for idealized traits like blond hair, blue eyes and tall stature. . 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. On the show's pilot, the trio bring a burly security guard along as they help a woman sneak into her own home to grab belongings for herself and her two young daughters. . The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . Fumarase deficiency, however sensationalized, is not the only genetic disorder found here. . Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. 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. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. "Some genes linked to conditions like microcephaly and dwarfism are 'autosomal recessive,' and are found among the 22-linked pairs of chromosomes that do not include the X and Y sex chromosomes, says Lynn Jorde of the University of Utah's Eccles Human Genetics Institute, a leading genetics research center. 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. Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? . "Experts say the number of children afflicted in the FLDS community is expected to steadily increase as a result of decades of inbreeding between two of the polygamous sect's founding families--the Barlows and the Jessops. As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . Ron Tucker went so far as to call his former brethren white supremacists, and ten times more racist than your run-of-the-mill skinhead. Elden had predicted that he would be resurrected from the dead, so clan members kept his body on ice for three days, to no avail. ". . offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. 5, p. 22. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. 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. Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. "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. . 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. . . "There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece," she continues. "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." . "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. ", (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 "Tarby says he explained to [a] gathering at [a] Town Hall in Colorado City that the only way to stop fumarase deficiency in the community is to abort fetuses that test positive for the disease and for the community to stop intermarriages between Barlows and Jessops, Barlows and Barlows and Jessops and Jessops. . The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. 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. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. "Marriages among first and second cousins have been common for decades in the community, where religious doctrine requires men to have at least three wives to gain eternal salvation. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. . . My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. deficiency. . ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. . In an office several hundred miles from where Young gave his speech, a 10-year . A simple urine test will reveal. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. "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.' for Nathanael Allred's baby. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. "There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year," says Ron. Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is a polygamous sect straddling the Utah and Arizona state lines; the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, are known collectively as Short Creek (pronounced "crick"). . 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