. . He was. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. "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. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. 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------.. he says. . "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. _____. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. 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 girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. 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": ". 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. "Her half-brother is still married to another half-sister (whose parents also were half-sister and brother) and are still members of the Kingston's order. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. FOX 13 . Home births and the frequency of miscarriages and still-borns among the Kingstons have led to macabre legends of dead infants buried in Kingston back yards. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. . . "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. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. Certainly if MORmON Jesus had done this, we would hear all about it from the LDS as *proof* that God was doing his modern work via MORmONISM, but alas there is no such manifestation ! 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. We're sitting in Ron's large kitchen, eating a meal of homemade tomato sauce and sweet Italian sausage that his wife Geria retired marriage and family therapist originally from Hurleyville, NY, who he met six years ago on Zoosk!has prepared in a slowcooker. Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. "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. There have also been charges made that some plural wives and their children have . Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. The Order can rightly claim discrimination by mainstream Mormonism, but this is due to its embrace of polygamy, which the LDS church officially abandoned in 1890 in order for Utah to become a state. The incest came to light after the girl tried to escape the arranged celestial marriage an illegal marriage, sans license. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm, http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html, http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html, http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. . 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. . Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? . present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. . 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. Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . They can't sit up. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. 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. Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. . " girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. 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. "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.". 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. offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. "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. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. . , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. . Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. Known variously as Brother Paul, the leader, and the man on the watchtower by Order members, this unremarkable, balding middle-aged man reportedly has 27 wives and over 300 children. Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. 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. 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. They can't do anything by themselves. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) "I'm like, Really? "15 years ago, a strange-looking child suffering from severe physical maladies and acute retardation was brought into the office of [pedatric neurologist] Dr. Theodore Tarby. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. '", (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) "But this is a very unlikely scenario for FLDS faithful, who practice a religious doctrine that requires men to be strictly obedient to religious leaders and requires women to give birth to as many children as possible to increase the sect's numbers. . 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. A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. . . . . and last updated 1:46 PM, Feb 24, 2021. In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. "Outside, people don't die that often, and usually they're really old.". Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. _____. "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. 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 said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' 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. Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. This is why those laws need to be enforced. Hospital harm., While part of The Order, Val Snow, a twenty-something gay man with a wry sense of humor, believed being gay was like spitting in the eye of God. Snow is the son of Daniel Kingston, whom he paints as a little man with a lot of power.. "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. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. 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. "For more than 70 years, all marriages in the isolated towns have been arranged by the leader of the FLDS, a breakaway sect of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church. . The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. There is no sign. . ". . They got married and contacted the . Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. . "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. Some of these marriages will include parents who both are carriers of the fumarase deficiency gene, making it certain that more children will be afflicted with the disease. . 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. on the flat hay fields that stretch from the edge of Woods Cross to the crusty shores of the Great Salt Lake, that John Ortell Kingston studied the genetics of in-line breeding. . . Carolyn. 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. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. Somehow LaDonnas curse was transferred to the Tuckers via Christy, Rons wife, because, Christys mom left The Order and married an Irishman, before leaving him and returning to the fold. Gallup Panel survey [conducted in August 2006] show[ed] that Americans are much more likely to believe most Mormons endorse practicing polygamy than to believe most Americans support it. . She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. 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. But now that it was appearing in two children in the same family was an indication it was being spread by a gene that was getting passed to the children by their parents. 11, p. 128, ". As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. 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.. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. They have no movement. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . This denial is hollow considering the record. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. 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. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. 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. '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. Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. . 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' "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. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. ozpoof Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. "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. . All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. . "'I tried to get people to come, but nobody would listen,' says the mother, who left the group and her marriage after her sons were diagnosed with dwarfism. . "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. "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. Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . . 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? "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. Control of The Order then passed to Ortells well-educated son Paul Kingston, one of several lawyers in a cult whose members dress normally and try not to draw attention to themselves. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" 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.'. Kingston clan birth defects. . Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. . . According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. That sister, too, dealt with a lot of respiratory problems with her kids, "because of the relation," Dawna explains. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. "'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. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. KUTV A large police presence swarmed a well-known polygamous family's property in South Salt Lake Wednesday.A Department of Justice Spokesman Peter Carr confirmed to KUTV that it is involved in . 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. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year. According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. "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. "I know these people personally.'. 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. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. . When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. 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. the FLDS has the highest known rate of a rare genetic disorder called "fumarase deficiency" that causes severe birth defects. ". . 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. . Julie left the cult at age 19. That leads to problems." "Victims suffer a range of symptoms, including severe epileptic seizures, inability to walk or even sit upright, severe speech impediments, failure to grow at a normal rate, and tragic physical deformities. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. There is no doubt about that at all. 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 . Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. 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