He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. . lucky 5, p. 22. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. "'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. . ("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. In 2006, Warren Jeffs, then the president and prophet of the FLDS, was arrested and charged with accomplice rape, for just two of the underage marriages he had arranged. . . ', "Aleck says the fact that so many people in the polygamist enclave are blood relatives of the founding Barlow and Jessop families 'shows the magnitude of the problem.'. 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.. . Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. [T]he one-wife system not only degenerates the human family, both physically and intellectually, but it is entirely incompatible with philosophical notions of immortality; it is a lure to temptation, and has always proved a curse to a people. . Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. . . 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. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. 'A lady comes in and helps her. This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. . . The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. . 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? Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. . Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . In the polygamist cult of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, cousins were encouraged to marry in order to preserve certain bloodlines. He was. 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.". 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. '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. "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. . 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. Because that one is going to be genius-level purity, and thats what The Order is looking for., Photo Credit: AP Images / Leah Hogsten, Pool (John Daniel Kingston); AP Images / Jeffrey D. Allred / Pool (Jeremy Kingston), SPLC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 63-0598743). Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. . "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. 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. Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. "Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. ". "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. . "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. . "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. "By the late 1990s, Tarby and his team had discovered fumarase deficiency was occurring in the greatest concentration in the world among the fundamentalist Mormon polygamists of northern Arizona and southern Utah. Even the few highly educated people there . "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . "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. Obsessed with the purity of their bloodline and empowered by a sense of entitlement on par with the divine right of kings, the Kingstons have made incest the cornerstone of a self-serving theology that loathes non whites, fosters homophobia and abhors government authority. "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.'" "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. . . 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. . Appointments & Access. 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). . . Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. This is why those laws need to be enforced. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? . 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 . Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. ", -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. . . "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. . 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. . . ", (Aimee Larsen Stoddard, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems," 7 October 2010, under "Birth Defects in Mormon Fundamentalist Cult," posted by "halley, 20 February 2011, at: http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723) 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. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' . The three marriages between second cousins have produced at least eight children afflicted with fumarase deficiency, according to a report in the May 2000 'Annals of Neurology' (based on the study conducted by the group led by Tarby and Aleck), interviews with doctors treating the disease and anecdotal evidence gathered from the community. In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. Surely, there were too many deaths. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. I hate to talk like this about my own genealogy,' Wyler says, 'but, literally, they are keeping all the breeding stock--the women, the [strictly faithful] men--and weeding out the disobedient men. . 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. Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. "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. Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. . "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. 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. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). 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. . 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. and is expected to answer questions . . 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. 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. These conditions are disproportionately common, relative to the size of the general population, in Short Creek. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. 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. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. . Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. . FOX 13 . "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. 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. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. 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. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women-stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout Christendom, and which had been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious. 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. Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. Since most Kingston children are born in homes under the scrutiny of trusted and secretive family midwives or clan leaders, documentation of medical abnormalities is rare, but not unprecedented. We would cause harm, he confessed. One of her brothers married a woman whose grandmother is a sister to their father. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. "Among the polygamous Kingstons, a number of children have been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two uteruses but no vaginal or bowel opening. he says. . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. '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. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. . "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. It's also still rape with a foreign object, I remind us both unnecessarily. unavailable to researchers. If these couples are . "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. "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. . There lives Ross LeBaron Jr., a descendant of another polygamous sect (separate from the FLDS but quite similar in practice) called the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. Snow began dating men when he was 22. 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. ", (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) Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . . The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. Those affected by the genetic disorder suffer grand mal seizures and often have facial feature deformities and severe mental retardation, with IQs as low as 25. . (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. A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. . LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. . "How do you keep track of that?" 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. "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. 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. . thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. "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. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. and last updated 1:46 PM, Feb 24, 2021. First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. . 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