These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. "The disease is not widely known about even in Colorado City, a place where even normally public events such as marriages are conducted in secret. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . . 75.119.192.80 "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. 'A lady comes in and helps her. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. . 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? This denial is hollow considering the record. . But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. Two weeks after is excommunication, Kingston had a dream wherein he believed he was visited by Jesus Christ and God the Father. Members today wear normal modern clothing, although they are encouraged to be modest and keep a high standard of dress. "[44] Members claim they have been broadly and unfairly targeted by authorities for the negative actions of a small few. [14] Some of their secrecy might be attributed to a fear of arrest for living in plural marriages, as had happened in 19591960 when being investigated by the Davis County Grand Jury, which some members claimed was organized by LDS Apostles Mark E. Peterson and Spencer W. . Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. The Kingstons represent an intriguing branch on the Mormon fundamentalist tree. . " , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. . "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. "Medical experts say the incidence of the disorder will increase because the FLDS community is refusing to accept recommendations to reduce the likelihood of producing babies with fumarase deficiency. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. . . Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. Mormons can now see why American citizens passed laws intended to stop polygamy, a relic of unwise prophecy, laws continuously disregarded in Utah, a state controlled by the Mormon Church, if they will only look. With the dawn of the twenty-first century, lawsuits and education among Kingston followers would combine to create new obstacles, as leaders perpetuate this financially spiritual hybrid organization. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. This is why those laws need to be enforced. Child life is destroyed. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. Jacob Kingston told prosecutors the company was capable of producing some amounts of biodiesel, but in no year did it ever produce more than 8.5 million gallons. . A small portion of the funds (less than 6%) were also used to purchase legitimate goods and services from businesses who provided them in "good faith". . "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. "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. . LDS scripture teaches that in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established (D&C 6:28; 2 Cor. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. In recent years, former members have lobbied for law enforcement to take action against the sect. "With a well-thought-out plan," Hope After Polygamy explains, "she was successful; the judge granted her emancipation when she was 17 years old. Like any fundamentalist Mormon sect, the Kingston Clan is very hierarchal. Satan will try to stop the power of the Lord and that power is where the Lord has given his covenant of consecration and that is: to the Davis County Co-op of Bountiful, Utah. [17] That same year, Ardous Kingston Gustafson, a mother of four and founding Co-op member, was jailed on Christmas Eve when she could not produce membership lists that were to be used to target plural families for further arrest and harassment. 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. ", (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 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. 'Maybe it will just self-destruct,' historian Bistline says of the fundamentalist church he quit 20 years ago because of a dispute over religious doctrine and property ownership. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? . Police raid Utah properties of well-known polygamist Kingston Clan The accusers describe a patriarchal doctrine known as The Law of One Above Another, which they claim designates everyone a rank in the groups hierarchy. 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 ! The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. Wyler says he once saw a fumarase deficiency child suffer a seizure while she was sitting with her mother and two other children also suffering from the disorder. Well, law enforcement often tends to look the other way in cases like polygamy, unless specific reports reach the agencies. soon . Eldens father related that Elden told him that was ordained by J. Leslie Broadbent (Lorin Woolleys successor) in 1934, although precisely what that ordination represented is unclear. From the previously-cited article, "Understanding Polygamy": "The polygamous Kingston family professes that their genealogy line traces back to Jesus Christ, and so they possess holy blood. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. . Kingston began preaching polygamy amongst fellow members of the LDS Church and distributing pamphlets and the book he had co-written, Laman Manasseh Victorious: A Message of Salvation and Redemption to His People Israel, First to Ephraim and Manasseh. They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. Elden clearly claimed to hold the priesthood keys, saying, I have those keys of power.[3]. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. . Jacob Kingston pleaded guilty to 41 charges, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aiding/assistance in filing a false claim, money laundering and obstruction. Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. "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.' 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. . "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. Tarby. "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. If these couples are . "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . What members of Utah polygamous clan did with $512M in falsely obtained "Then, as generations of polygamous Kingston children have been taught, they demurred to questions about their father. . . 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": ". 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. The Kingstons are members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or the Kingston Order, which practices polygamy. . Children inherit disabling illnesses. Who is the insider on Escaping Polygamy? - Monsters and Critics Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. "John Ortell Kingston was the first Kingston to experiment with incest, marrying and bearing children with two half-sisters and two nieces, according to numerous ex-members of the clan. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. . 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. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' breeding really functional? Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. This means all other covenants were of no effect through which source they can. 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. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints elders, who control the community, have labored to keep the public from finding out why the disorder is manifesting. [8][3] There are approximately 3,500 members,[9] some of whom are known to practice polygamy. From an "Associated Press" news report, "Doctor: Birth Defects Increase in Polygamy Community": "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. However, the group reiterated its belief that "bleeding the beast" was "abhorent" and was "never a tenet" of its organization. "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. Brigham Young waited until 1868, twenty-one years after arriving in Utah, to actively promote it, and John Taylor ceased emphasizing it shortly after becoming President of the Church. The accusers also claim that the group arranged child marriages so that girls would become pregnant and beholden to their husbands and the religious sect. [2] Also known as the LDCJC,[3] the Kingston Clan, and The Order,[4][5][6] it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. "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. . We cannot afford to neglect the possibility our ancestors practiced a form of marriage that was unhealthy and debilitating to our children, to us, and to society. . . . Those unions fell within Utahs consanguinity restrictions and, if discovered, would be considered incestuous under the laws of the state. ozpoof 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. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. While his children and wife initially resisted his new religious position, they eventually joined him in asking their names to be removed from LDS Church records. ". ", (Joseph Carroll, "One in Four Americans Think Most Mormons Endorse Polygamy; Only 2% Think Most Americans Support Polygamy," by Gallup News Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 7 September 2006, at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e). "'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. Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' Thanks for contacting us. . Jacob O. Kingston, the company's CEO, pleaded guilty Thursday to 41 charges including money laundering, fraud, conspiracy and witness tampering and obstruction of justice, according to a court. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. . "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. Now, this might well be the case, with the . She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. We dont expect any of the claims to prevail in a court of law.. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene greatly increases, medical experts say. "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . . . From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . 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. 'The downside is that if you don't start with good genetics, and if there is baggage in the genes of the individual, inbreeding will uncover that baggage. . For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. A member of a polygamist clan today was convicted of incest with his 16-year-old niece, who testified that she had been forced to become his 15th wife. . The groups, whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, are offshoots of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While they affirm that they now carry the torch first lit by Joseph Smith, their agenda focuses only on plural marriage and their own brand of united order. . . . I'd never heard of them, a polygamist, fundie cult where even 14 year olds could . The suit includes ten former members alleging the organization used marriages to "unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes". Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. . The corporation produces goods and services that are used by members, and sold or traded to other cooperatives and to the public. . . . . . Not only were there possibly too few fathers making it easier for defects to clump in the large interrelated kindred but succeeding generations of children from these isolated rural Mormon towns married within a few kindred as well. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. "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. The current leader of the Kingston Clan is Paul Elden Kingston, and it is reported that he has up to 27 wives (including three half-sisters) and some wives have as many as 18 children. The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. That's the big problem.' 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. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. 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. "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. . [45] Members allege to have been targeted for audit at a rate over 9x the published IRS average for the general population, with no pattern of fraud being found outside of a couple of bad-actors. [10], According to his autobiography, Charles W. Kingston became disenchanted with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1926 because it abandoned plural marriage. Inside the Kingston Kingdom: Former employee reveals clan's secrets "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. . Where Are Escaping Polygamy Cast Members Now? - The Cinemaholic "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. . 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. A Kingston Family Primer. "Nearly everyone in Colorado City, Arizona, and the adjacent town of Hildale, Utah, was a member of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that practices polygamy and had long encouraged multiple marriages between close relatives. '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. Why is this? If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. . But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. . "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. Sally Kingston, a wife of one of the brothers, and. Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. . . . "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. Inside 'The Order,' One Mormon Cult's Secret Empire For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. He faces up to 30 years in. The word dispensation refers to two processes. And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. They own many businesses and have ties with hundreds of businesses here in Utah and our neighboring states. [39] The 2022 complaint was filed by attorney, Roger Hoole,[39] an attorney known for representing ex-members of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. . . "'It would have been unusual if he wasn't using artificial insemination in his herd, and by virtue of that, was probably using semen from some bulls that had been inbred,' says Dennis Green, a professor of beef cattle genetics at Colorado State University. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. requote from Steve's excellent post ! Is Escaping Polygamy Real or Scripted? - The Cinemaholic [21][26], The Latter Day Church of Christ is based on a belief in Jesus Christ and the restoration of his gospel in these latter days. But it must needs be done in mine own way; and behold this is the way that I, the Lord, have decreed to provide for my saints, that the poor shall be exalted, in that the rich are made low (D&C 104:16). And the Genealogy Department advises genealogists to follow only their direct line; in this instance meaning only the wife who is their mother, not other wives of their father. Members of a powerful polygamous group in Utah claim they were forced into underage marriages with their relatives to keep their blood pure, were raped by their husbands and had to perform child labor, according to a bombshell lawsuit. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. . . FOX 13 spoke to the man who filed the IRS. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. The Kingston Clan is where Jessica, Andrea, and Shanell escaped over a decade ago. Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office. . Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. Believing that Elden received lost priesthood keys in 1935 also seems to contradict an 1837 scripture given to Joseph Smith stating that the priesthood had then (in 1837) been restored for the last time: For unto you, the Twelve, and those, the First Presidency, who are appointed with you to be your counselors and your leaders, is the power of this priesthood given, for the last days and for the last time, in the which is the dispensation of the fulness of times (D&C 112:30; see also D&C 27:13). . _____. . provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . Federal agents raid Utah offices of polygamous Kingston Group "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. Escaping Polygamy is an American documentary television series that premiered on December 30, 2014, on LMN.The show now airs on Lifetime, but can also be viewed on Tubi, and follows the work of three sisters who left the Kingston clan, a polygamous group based in Salt Lake City, Utah known as The Order, as they help family and/or friends break free of polygamy. Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. All went bareheaded and barefoot. . '90% of the community is related to one side or the other,' said Bistline, a former member of the sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Indeed, regardless of facing crushing federal government opposition to polygamous inbreeding, true-blue Mormons remain convinced that you can't keep a good man of God down To them, polygamy will be coming back some day, with sizable numbers of the faithful flock confident that its eugenic genetics will return by order of Joseph's Jesus. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. . . [19] For many years, members of the Co-operative lived in poor conditions, and those in need had no legal way to apply for assistance. . Video unavailable This video. He also married a woman descended from polygamy. [39], In 2016, the State of Utah with federal law enforcement raided various properties in connection with the Kingston family or Davis County Cooperative Society with the intention of finding welfare fraud. refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. [i]n a secret church ceremony. [7] Some members of the church are also believed to practice consanguineous marriage, or marriage to relatives within the group. The records of the marriages sealed at the Nauvoo Temple before the general exodus to Utah in the 1840s, may be the most important ones of all; yet, these are . . . They have no movement. "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . "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. 1,000 GOAL. 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Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, 2023 Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, Joseph Smith Restores the Practice of Plural Marriage, Plural Marriage Commanded, Permitted, and Not Permitted, 1920sPolygamists Coalesce into an Organization, Lorin C. Woolley and His Council of Seven Friends, Independent Polygamists and Fundamentalists. . 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. . "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. . When the Lord chose Brother Elden through which to send this new covenant, all other covenants were thereby dissolved.
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