. Elden also instituted the church law of one above the other, requiring members blind obedience to the churchs hierarchy of numbered men, with Elden being Brother Number One. There have also been charges made that some plural wives and their children have . 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. Before the call ended, Young insisted that he didnt admit to any kind of incest or anything. When Intelligence Report inquired if Young thought there was anything wrong with first cousins getting married, Young opined that such issues were between the individuals involved and God. . As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. . "There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble because he was having children with these young girls, so he said, 'Well, I never had sex with themI used a turkey baster.'" on the history of the fundamentalist community. "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. . Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. 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. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. . 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. "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. This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. And during a recent picnic to honor the birthday of patriarch John Ortell Kingston, Order families descended on a Salt Lake Valley park, where hundreds of children of all ages blanketed the parks green expanse. This denial is hollow considering the record. breeding really functional? If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, . 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. A simple urine test will reveal. [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 Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. . "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. . Let's revisit the boastful words of Mormon Church Prophet John Taylor and Mormon Church Apostle Heber C. Kimball, both quoted earlier: -Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. "Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding. . 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. The chickens are coming home to roost. Or leave. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. . By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. . 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. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. "Ex-members' claims of incest are bolstered by court records claiming John Ortell 'failed either to support or acknowledge' three children by his niece, (Susan) Mary Gustafson. One outspoken Mormon matriarch who attended the same Sunday meeting for 50 years commented about the health of the polygamous descendants versus the monogamous descendants, 'You see it in the obituaries. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . And they are growing. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. . _____. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. . 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. restricted in some polygamous sects, including FLDS groups in Colorado City, Arizona; Hildale, Utah; and West Texas, that force some of the young males to leave the communities . . 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 . 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' 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. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. "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. . . I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. . 5, p. 22. . "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. 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": ". . ". 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. They steer clear of banks,. 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." 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. . Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. 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." "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. Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. . One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' Shuvrajit Das Biswas. 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. His eldest died six years ago at 10 years old, he says, and another died in infancy, leaving behind two remaining brothers from a set of spontaneous identical triplets. One of her brothers married a woman whose grandmother is a sister to their father. 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. One child born with an incomplete liver died. There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. 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. 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. 'A lady comes in and helps her. "In polygamy . 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. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. . 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. Why is this? 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. ("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. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. Tarby. . Sex. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. 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. greatly increases, medical experts say. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. . [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. 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. A simple urine test will reveal whether there is an excess of fumaric acid in the urine, if the other, more external symptoms aren't obvious enough. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . 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. "FLDS marriages, Wyler and other community experts say, are an extension of a breeding program that began with Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in the 1830s. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. It is bordered to the north by a well-maintained lot where there sits a stately red brick home with UEP (United Effort Plan, the church trust which is now controlled by the state of Utah in the aftermath of Jeffs' conviction) spelled out in white brick on its south-facing side. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . 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. . Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. 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. Two are nieces. . "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. She knows that they're. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. 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. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. 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. . 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. . The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. . 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. Some outside the church have referred to the group as "the Kingston Clan" or the "Kingston Cult," although leaders believe that these terms are "inaccurate and derogatory." . . 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). and councilmen.' "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. . Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. A retired Arizona law enforcement officer, Browning is the president and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network and is in charge of security for the A&E show, where his wife Tawni works as the casting producer. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. 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. A loyal Order member for years, he lost his faith and ended up leaving the Order over a curse of sorts, leveled at his family by LaDonna. So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. . A fifth child, they say, was fathered by their eldest brother Wayne LeBaron, (who was married to Dawna Black Bistline's cousin at the time of this child's allegedly incestuous conception). "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? . . The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. . "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. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. . Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? ", (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) "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. . . . "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' These conditions are disproportionately common, relative to the size of the general population, in Short Creek. Blood tests showed the infant and 25 other children from numerous women were fathered by the same man, leading to one of the largest welfare fraud-settlements in Utah history. 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. 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. . Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. He orchestrated all unions within the cult, which was maintained with classic mind control techniques, corporal punishment, fasting and bizarre dietary practices. 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. So, from the beginnings of Mormon Church history, we have LDS Elohim's hand of blessing placed upon the insidious institution of multi-wifing and forever-birthing. "I know these people personally.'. 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. That's the big problem.' "Have you ever heard of the term The Turkey Baster?" . The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. . . . . 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. Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. . Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. . Tarby recounts a conversation he had with a member of the Barlow clan in which he tried to explain why so much fumarase deficiency was occurring among Mormon polygamists. July 1, 2020. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. 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. "I'm like, Really? Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. . ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. "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. . . 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. But in a 2News . "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. . . "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . 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. ". Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. . "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. (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. . 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. "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. . They are coming out of polygamous communities proliferating in Utah because Mormons are unable to face their history or follow sound marriage and childbirth practices. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. They predict the scale of the problem will increase dramatically in the future. IF polygamy really is justified in increased breeding, and since MORmON Jesus did institute such a plan according to MORmON history at one time, then how come MORmON god does not follow through and have a lot more females born in such marriages as would be required mathematically to make His Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. "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. . In a portion of Warren Jeffs' Priesthood Record a mostly dry document that details his every move and meeting one entry, a written transcription of an announcement made by Warren at lunch with his late father's family, stands out as particularly creepy. "Community historian Ben Bistline said most of the community's 8,000 residents are in two major families descended from a handful of founders who settled there in the 1930s. . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . '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. These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. . . There is no sign. Aleck is a geneticist who participated along with Tarby and others in the groundbreaking study of several polygamous families with fumarase deficiency in the late 1990s. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. Mormons who believe that polygamy is a heaven-sent doctrine that will eventually be re-implemented on Earth by God (current Church claims of non-use notwithstanding), have a friend in go-to LDS Apostle, Bruce R. McConkie, who confidently declared: "Obviously, the holy practice [of polygamy] will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. . Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. 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. ", (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 . 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. [i]n a secret church ceremony. . 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