. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. "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. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. . when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. 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. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. . . Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. . . 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. [23] The group claims no preference for any particular family or surname stating members join every year "from a variety of different backgrounds and surnames. "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. Consanguinity causes aggregate clusters of deleterious genes to collect in families, which then express themselves as rare recessive disorders like nephritis, cystic fibrosis, biliary artesia, albinism, short stature and many others. . . . . . "During this early period, polygamy was practiced secretly by the Mormon leadership, men who covertly preached and expanded polygamy while publicly deceiving the general Mormon population about the practice. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. The two Kingston brothers and their business partner, Lev Dermen, are in jail awaiting trial, scheduled to start in July and last six weeks. "[2], According to a 2011 document prepared by the attorneys general of the states of Utah and Arizona, the church describes itself as emphasizing family values, education, self-sufficiency, and the belief that every child is a priceless blessing. Men rise in prominence by being obedient and pure of blood and by having large families that can produce a lot of money and workers for the group, the suit continues. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. While Charles W. Kingston was the first to oppose the Church, the primary mover in the Kingston Group was his son Elden. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. [27] It is not affiliated with the mainstream LDS Church. 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. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. And in 1999, David Ortell Kingston Jeremy Kingston's uncle was sentenced to the Utah State Prison for up to 10 years for committing incest with the 16-year-old niece who became his 15th wife. 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. . "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. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. 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. . . . Meanwhile, as Mormons wait patiently and faithfully for multi-wifery's official return, the words of their founding Church fathers sound praise to polygamy past, present and future: --The Mormon God's Declaration of Righteous Genetic Combinations: Monogamy is a Christian Blight on Humanity, While Polygamy is the Lord's Way to Produce Fresh, Virile Men; Good-Lookin' Women; and Super Strong Stock to Carry Civilization Into Eternity. Precisely where Elden obtained valid priesthood authority is a matter of dispute. . The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. [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. "State investigators found no wrongdoing among members of the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. [18][7], The Cooperative had its birth during the Great Depression when many families struggled immensely to provide for their families. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership.
The Kingstons - Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. . "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. . This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. "[44] Members claim they have been broadly and unfairly targeted by authorities for the negative actions of a small few. . The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. . . Source: Twitter Jessica with her husband and three daughters. _____, --How "God's Genes" Do Ugly Things: The Biological Attack on "Modern"-day Followers of Mormonism's Originally-"Revealed" Doctrine of Polygamy. "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. . 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. . The Bear Clan's Kevin Walker told Global News on Wednesday that while the organization is still actively hitting Winnipeg streets, the way they operate has changed due to COVID-19. 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. [10], Over the decades, the Cooperative has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive system with assets once estimated at over $150 million. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. soon . The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. Women, meanwhile, allegedly gain status by being pure of blood and obedient, becoming the first wives of higher-ranking numbered men, and bearing many children. The group has drawn legal attention before. lucky Sally Kingston, a wife of one of the brothers, and. "There is no doubt in the mind of any expert interviewed by 'New Times' that the practice of polygamy combined with inbreeding has fostered the spread of fumarase deficiency. unavailable to researchers. After two years of investigating, they did not find any welfare fraud. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. . . . Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. . Never miss a story. and Privacy Policy. . shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. .
Survivors of Utah's Kingston clan sue for a slew of crimes against "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. ("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. The complaint against the Kingston Group also known as the Order was filed in Salt Lake City last week by 10 people, including Amanda Rae Grant, who starred in the A&E docu-series Escaping Polygamy.. [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. . "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. "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. . [9][34], Active members and a recent independent research article by a professor from Santa Clara University have attributed the practice to "endogamous preference and the small size of the groups population". . . [8], In the late 1990s, three members of the LDCJC faced scrutiny for entering into incestuous relationships. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . . He prepared urine samples and sent them to the University of Colorado Science Center's Dr. Steve Goodman, a professor of pediatrics who runs a laboratory that detects rare genetic diseases. The group sought to maintain Pure Kingston Blood by arranging marriages between cousins and other close relatives, and shunning relationships that werent between white people, the lawsuit alleges. This means it may be genetically unwise for children of the early leaders to marry other children of early leaders, even now; yet, this tendency still exists in Mormonism. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. The Kingston Group is not affiliated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based on the Utah-Arizona line that is run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, who. Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" . . . ". [39] In 2007, the group told Deseret News that it was encouraging its members to wait until their partners were 18 to marry them,[41][43] with one member reporting that "we do encourage them to be 18 now". . . . . . "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. Those unions fell within Utahs consanguinity restrictions and, if discovered, would be considered incestuous under the laws of the state. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. [30] This practice lasted only a short time and was abandoned sometime before 1940.
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.
What Happened to 'Escaping Polygamy' Star Ava AKA - Distractify 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. "Ex-members' claims of incest are bolstered by court records claiming John Ortell 'failed either to support or acknowledge' three children by his niece, (Susan) Mary Gustafson. The Kingstons are members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or the Kingston Order, which practices polygamy. "My dad had a thing that was supposed to shoot radio waves or something like that, that . [5] Michael Janofsky, Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy, New York Times, February 27, 2003, Late EditionFinal Section A-1. . But now that it was appearing in two children in the same family was an indication it was being spread by a gene that was getting passed to the children by their parents. He interpreted his dream to mean that God approved of his leaving the Church. . One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. "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. Early persecution seems to have conditioned Kingston leaders to maintain the utmost secrecy, but third generation officers seem to use ignorance as a tool to enhance control of their followers, especially of women. [12] In 1977, Elden's brother Ortell Kingston began to file for legal recognition of the church later organized as The Latter Day Church of Christ. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. "The few dissenters in the community say the serious genetic problems that are beginning to surface are an indication that the closed FLDS society could eventually collapse. . . "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. 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. In addition, placing the law of consecration at the pinnacle of divine laws is inconsistent with scripture and restoration history. "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. '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. That leads to problems." . . joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. ", (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) Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. They can't do anything by themselves. . . The group also teaches its members that only those with so-called pure blood will survive the apocalypse, according to the lawsuit. Even the few highly educated people there .
Blood Cult | Southern Poverty Law Center . . "It was . . So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. "In polygamy . 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. The SPLC estimates there are .
Police raid Utah properties of well-known polygamist Kingston Clan .
Investigate the Kingston Clan: wealthiest polygamous cult in the U.S . 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. Exhibiting LGBTQ+ tendencies can indicate impure blood, according to the lawsuit. ". "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. But it is unclear how such assets are exalting the poor or making the rich low. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. . . . 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. "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. The Kingston Clan, also known as The Order is a Mormon based group that is far more like an organized crime family and cult than religious organization. . "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. She suffered from. An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. 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. "Fast-forward . "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. . _____. . "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. [21] Over the past 25 years, many members have become college-educated and live in middle-to-upper-middle-class homes throughout their communities. . . The Kingstons represent an intriguing branch on the Mormon fundamentalist tree. Tarby recounts a conversation he had with a member of the Barlow clan in which he tried to explain why so much fumarase deficiency was occurring among Mormon polygamists. . Charles Zitting (one of Lorin C. Woolleys High Priest Apostles) introduced Kingston to plural marriage, causing Kingston to be cut off from the Church in 1929. The Kingston Group is believed to have a few thousand members, mostly in Utah and Idaho. If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. The organized Ku Klux Klan movement saw a boost in its membership in 2017. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. Carolyn regularly worked at and tended . 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 bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring. . . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. . [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. . His father wrote: Brother Elden received a new covenant up on the top of the highest mountain that is east of Bountiful, Utah. "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. 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. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up.
Members of the Kingston polygamous family facing fraud charges strike "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. . . After all, polygamy is illegal in the US. One child born with an incomplete liver died. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . . . "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. . . Doctrinally, members of the LDCJC try to adhere to the teachings of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. [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. [6] Brooke Adams, Salt Lake Tribune, May 22, 2004. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind.
When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet - culteducation.com . 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. 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. .
Kingston clan: Unlikely whistleblower helps uncover alleged half They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. (The Church lost its authority to give covenants.) --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy.
Disturbing photos of the modern-day Ku Klux Klan - CBS News David Kingston was released from prison in 2003. . There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. The Kingston Group stopped proselytizing new converts when the cooperative became successful, and today they perform no missionary work of any kind. Child life is destroyed. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. One of the guilty pleas states they cycled fraud proceeds through a number of international partners and then back to Washakie's bank accounts, falsely claiming them as loans or profits. [11] Some members had begun the practice of plural marriage years before the establishment of the cooperative. [i]n a secret church ceremony. . [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. This is why those laws need to be enforced. . We recall that Joseph Smith made no effort to implement the law of consecration while in Nauvoo (see D&C 105:34). "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. 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. . The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . "It is Moore-Emmett's belief that the LDS Church who started polygamy in this country should take responsibility and provide financial aid and other resources for those polygamous families who have been abused. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. . . In recent years, former members have lobbied for law enforcement to take action against the sect. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. 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. . 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' . . The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' . . "'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. . . This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. [7] Members of the Latter Day Church of Christ are also members of the Davis County Cooperative Society (a separate organization and legal entity) which practices the law of consecration and United Order. Photocopy in authors possession. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. "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.' . . . . "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. "Every person carries some lethal genes. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings.