[i]n a secret church ceremony. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. 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 . 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. ". Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. . One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. Tarby. 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. . "Fast-forward . '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. "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 discoveries and research within my own kindred so alarmed me that I studied other descendants of polygamy to see if their families also suffered from crippling illnesses. "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. . The incest came to light after the girl tried to escape the arranged celestial marriage an illegal marriage, sans license. . Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. 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. In the l950s, research doctors thought we were one of the few families in the world with this form of nephritis, known as Alports syndrome. . 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. . "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. "Fumarase deficiency is caused by a lack of the fumarase enzyme, an essential component in a biological process called the Krebs cycle, which converts food into energy within each cell. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced . Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? 5, p. 22. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. . "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. . 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. . 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. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. The company was founded in 2007 with an investment from family members. "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. . a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. . 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. . 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. . Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! . . 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. Men make all decisions affecting her health. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. I owe my children and all children who risk becoming the next unwitting victims of this tragic genetic legacy the best information regarding the prevention of this lethal family inheritance that I can find. . and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . 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. _____. If these couples are . 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. "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. . "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. He orchestrated all unions within the cult, which was maintained with classic mind control techniques, corporal punishment, fasting and bizarre dietary practices. "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. 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 ! But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . 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? Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. . Ron Tucker went so far as to call his former brethren white supremacists, and ten times more racist than your run-of-the-mill skinhead. Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. . . . It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. . "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. . They have no movement. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. Matt Browning seems less sure. The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. . "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. hello . Carolyn Yvonne Kingston was born in 1938 in Elmo, Utah, to Charles Elden Kingston, and his first wife Ethel Gustafson, so she was the daughter of the first prophet of the Kingston Clan. . Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two The polygamous town facing genetic disaster Apr 03, 2020 In a remote region of the US, a town is struggling with a chilling health crisis caused by a recessive gene. Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. . "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. 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. ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . 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. "It is important that Mormons fight the tendency to discount history and the actions of their leaders in favor of a faith- promoting history while neglecting important facts. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. Two of her sisters married their first cousinsmen with whom they share the same grandfather; the sons of their father's second wife, who is their mother's full sister. . Surely, there were too many deaths. ', "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.'. "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. During an interview with this reporter, Lu Ann Kingston, whose defiance of the cult led to the conviction of her former spiritual husband Jeremy, recalled that Order members saw intermarriage as a way to keep the bloodline pure., All outsiders are considered to be beneath Order members, she explained. "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. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. . "They were called the Second Warders and we were called the First Warders; we weren't supposed to hang out with kids from the Centennial group because they were wicked for having left," she says. ", (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 "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. Everyone knows it's happening, few talk about it unprompted, it just sort of..is. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. . . "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. Another significant group is the Kingston Clan, also known as "The Order" and officially the Latter Day Church of Christ, with about 2000 members scattered throughout Utah. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? . I'm driving around Short Creek with Alyssawho is in Boise, Idaho, where she is a college sophomorepiped in through the bluetooth-enabled speakerphone in the rental car I'd picked in Las Vegas the previous night. Pentecostal lucky . They ought to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices; and it is not to be wondered at that they should envy those who so much better understand the social relations. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. . Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" If the FLDS faithful believed that Jeffs was relying on science to determine marriages rather than divine revelation from God, he could lose control of the church. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. . Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . There are also accounts of dead babies being buried at the Holy Spot, a tree-shrouded patch of land across the street from a grade school in Bountiful, just north of Salt Lake City. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. . . . The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. The Latter Day Church of Christ, is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. . . "There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year," says Ron. Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal . Indeed, the group was founded during the Great Depression as a communal religious organization where members dedicated their earnings and possessions to building the Kingdom of God on Earth, as one church document attests. Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. One man, who asks to remain nameless to protect his and his family's privacy, describes a lifetime of round-the-clock care and too-frequent hospital visits for his five sons. This denial is hollow considering the record. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. She knows that they're. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. . 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. "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. 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. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. "There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece," she continues. 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. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. 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. But in a 2News . ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. . "Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. . . To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. . There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. Readily accepted as a problem among mothers past the age of 35, it is rarely discussed as a problem when fathers are over 35, let alone 80. So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. . . 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. Convinced they are breeding a pure white master race, they blame the mother if a deformed baby is born then preach she was unrighteous or unclean. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. . Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. "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. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. This is why those laws need to be enforced. . Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. We would cause harm, he confessed. . ", (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) "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. 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. 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. unavailable to researchers. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. That's still gross." 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. . "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. . . Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. 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. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. . . "I know these people personally.'. . "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. 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." . . Have you also noticed all the genetic and other debilitating defects, deformities and diseases that comes along with your poisoned patriarchal plurality-of-wives club? . "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. . 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