. 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. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. "State investigators found no wrongdoing among members of the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. 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. [21] Over the past 25 years, many members have become college-educated and live in middle-to-upper-middle-class homes throughout their communities. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . . Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. . 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. [1], The Church . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. After all, polygamy is illegal in the US. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. . 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . "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. They operate in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. . "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. [5] Michael Janofsky, Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy, New York Times, February 27, 2003, Late EditionFinal Section A-1. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. . [49] As part of the plea deal and restitution, the company forfeits rights to a number of assets including their bio-fuel plant in Plymouth, Utah. . [in order] to reduce competition for wives. At least six of Merlin's incestuously conceived children in turn married half-siblings, couplings that subsequently produced children with various deformities, says Rowenna Erickson, an ex-member who left her polygamous husband. . "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . [8], In the late 1990s, three members of the LDCJC faced scrutiny for entering into incestuous relationships. His father wrote: Brother Elden received a new covenant up on the top of the highest mountain that is east of Bountiful, Utah. 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. 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. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. A young child is also one of the accusers in the suit with allegations the child was raped by his or her father, who allegedly raped the mother. And it is my purpose to provide for my saints, for all things are mine. . 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. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. We dont expect any of the claims to prevail in a court of law.. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! . Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. . Sally Kingston, a wife of one of the brothers, and. . . 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' Interview with the owner of Desert Tech: The son of Paul's sister Rachel herself a daughter of Ortell and LaDonna Kingston [Nick] Young was the only current member of the Kingston clan, out of the many contacted for this story, who consented to a live, on-the-record interview. "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. . However, Grant claims she endured years of sexual abuse by a half-brother as a child. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. LuAnn Kingston, a former member of the clan who in 1995 at age fifteen was forced to marry her first cousin, shared: The joke used to be that if you werent married by 17, you were an old maid.[5], Within the Kingston Group, the primary polygamists are the immediate Kingston family and heirs. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. . 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. Some Kingston followers might justify their financial conglomerate by comparing it to the wealthy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. 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. "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. The Kingstons represent an intriguing branch on the Mormon fundamentalist tree. . . It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. 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. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. One of the most controversial splinter groups of Mormonism, the Latter Day Church of Christ, has been led by members of the Kingston family since it was founded in 1935. lucky "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. WRE has since become defunct. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. The Kingston family owns an enormous amount of businesses in the Utah area which employ Kingston Clan members, and Merlin Kingston was no exception to this. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. Carolyn regularly worked at and tended . July 1, 2020. . The Twelve Apostles of Mormonism then acted to increase this familial relationship by marrying other relatives until in 1877, at the end of Brigham Youngs reign as Mormon Prophet and King, the polygamous hierarchy became l00% interrelated. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. . "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. . . Exhibiting LGBTQ+ tendencies can indicate impure blood, according to the lawsuit. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . . "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. "Another of Rugg's full sisters, Andrea Johnson, died in 1992 of complications of pre-eclampsia, a condition of pregnancy that was not treated until after the young girl, swollen with toxic fluid, was rushed to the emergency unit at University Hospital. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . . "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. 13:1). . 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. . "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. "'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. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. Source: Twitter Jessica with her husband and three daughters. From the "Phoenix New Timms" article, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children": "Colorado City resident Isaac Wyler says FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs is trying to create the 'perfect race.'. http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09- http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html, http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html. "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? . All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. ". Shuvrajit Das Biswas. . . This is why those laws need to be enforced. First, the truth and the priesthood keys are dispensed from heaven to a prophet on earth. . ", (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 "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. [i]n a secret church ceremony. The Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes the Kingston clan as an " incest and white supremacy " group for its practices outlined in Escaping Polygamy, which include teaching children to not associate themselves with non-white people and, as mentioned by the lawsuit, marrying underage children off to family members of The Order. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. . . . The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. . "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. Despite its on-going public relations effort to convince Americans that Mormons don't really support polygamy (and despite the belief of many devout Mormons that polygamy came from God as revealed church doctrine which will eventually be reinstated when Jesus returns to the Earth), a quarter of Americans surveyed also have expressed the opinion that most Mormons embrace the idea of plural marriage: "A . "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. 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. . These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. Supposedly, these sacrifices are part of the united order. . . They have been known for systemic inbreeding, child sex abuse, physical abuse, child labor, and tax evasion. Bearing in mind I'm not American and have only a vague knowledge of Mormonism, a video came across my youtube from a former member of the Kingston clan/the order and wow is this terrifying. Over the past decades, the Kingston Group has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive cooperative system, with wealth in at least 50 corporations in Utah and scattered across the West. It is the power of God through the law or covenant of consecration given to Brother Elden in 1935. [15][16] The Grand Jury was described as "The polygamist hunting Davis County Grand Jury" by the Ogden Standard-Examiner in 1959. . Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more. Unfortunately, there are also numerous reports of members who lived in squalor in order to advance the monetary gains of the Co-op. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. Because I fell down this rabbit hole and now so do you all. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. We specifically read that the law of consecration is designed to administer to the poor and the needy (D&C 42:35). These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. ". "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. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . 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. . "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. . 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 ! "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. . . [30] This practice lasted only a short time and was abandoned sometime before 1940. 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. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) . . 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) "The children afflicted with fumarase deficiency from these three marriages include the grandchildren of Dan Barlow and his brother, the late Louis Barlow, and Merill Jessop, a top aide to fugitive prophet Warren Jeffs. '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 notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. "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. . . "The genetic defect has been traced back to one of the community's founding patriarchs, the late Joseph Smith Jessop, and the first of his plural wives, according to medical literature, the Mormon Church genealogy database and residents of the community familiar with Jessop and Barlow family histories. . Kingston was able to name only nine of his thirteen children by a second woman, Rachael Ann Kingston. Much of what we have reviewed appears frivolous and unfounded, Gustafson said in an emailed statement. 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. the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. As a symbol of their renunciation of worldly goods, the outer clothing contained no pockets in which possessions could be carried, although later an inside pocket was provided for the sanitary measure of carrying a handkerchief. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' [54], The Utah holdings of Davis County Cooperative members were once estimated at more than $200 million,[9] and were believed to include the following:[55], For the church formally established by Joseph Smith in 1830, see. . on the history of the fundamentalist community. . Men make all decisions affecting her health. . "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. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. . "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. Duringa 2020 trialfor a California businessman accused of carrying out a nearly $500 million biodiesel fraud scheme with a member of the Kingston Group, attorneys for the businessman called the Kingstons an incestuous polygamous group that is always scheming to defraud the US government in what the group calls bleeding the beast., A spokesman for the group, Kent Johnson, called those allegations categorically false.. I am convinced they do. Now, this might well be the case, with the . ", "Utah investigated the polygamous Kingston Group for welfare fraud 2 years ago. Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. ", (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) . . Only the FLDS prophet can arrange and perform polygamous marriages, and those marriages are taking place in a community in which almost everybody is related. "In 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 . _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. and Privacy Policy. Child life is destroyed. 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' . "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. '", (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) He faces up to 30 years in. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. . living in Colorado City and Hildale are blood descendants of the Barlows and the Jessops, says Benjamin Bistline, a lifelong resident of the area who has published a book . . . "Tarby says he explained to [a] gathering at [a] Town Hall in Colorado City that the only way to stop fumarase deficiency in the community is to abort fetuses that test positive for the disease and for the community to stop intermarriages between Barlows and Jessops, Barlows and Barlows and Jessops and Jessops. . . 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. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. . 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. 1,000 GOAL. . One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' hello Among the participants was Charles W. Kingston. In addition, placing the law of consecration at the pinnacle of divine laws is inconsistent with scripture and restoration history. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? . . "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. he says. 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. The SPLC estimates there are . From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . [7], Plural marriage is practiced by some members of the LDCJC and members make their own choice in who they marry. ", (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). a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. 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. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents.
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