Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. A retired Arizona law enforcement officer, Browning is the president and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network and is in charge of security for the A&E show, where his wife Tawni works as the casting producer. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. . Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. 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. Through his brother LyleBishop of the FLDS and mouthpiece for his imprisoned brotherJeffs enacted a Judgment wherein FLDS members were asked a series of bizarre personal questions; their answers were judged, and the most righteous were welcomed into the United Order of FLDS elite. Bad harm. In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). . Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is a polygamous sect straddling the Utah and Arizona state lines; the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, are known collectively as Short Creek (pronounced "crick"). Many of the souls interred here lived not longer than a day, some just two days, two weeks, or two years. 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. Tarby. Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. Young told Intelligence Report that his company has sold weapons, with the approval of the U.S. State Department, to governments in Europe and the Middle East, Saudi Arabia being one. . "It's like any inbred disorder," Tarby says. If these couples are . "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. 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. "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. A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). . . If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. Just under eight miles southeast of Short Creek is an area called Cane Beds, Arizona. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. "Many of the parents did not want to have to deal with some of those children. Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. . The letter asserts that one of the earliest members of the church was a Native American man and that the Co-op, as it is sometimes called, has been the victim of prejudice and harassment by Utahs majority religion (i.e., the LDS church) because of the formers progressive ideas. I wonder aloud. Jessica said she and other children of the Kingston clan a group also known as The Order, the Davis County Cooperative Society, and the Latter-Day Church of Christ dropped the N-bomb all the time, as did their parents. 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. 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. Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. 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. . 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. The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. That leads to problems." More recently, the Kingston-owned Washakie Renewable Energy (WRE) agreed to pay a $3 million fine after it was sued by the federal government for raking in tax credits for biofuels it never produced. 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": ". "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. . . Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? . "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . On the show's pilot, the trio bring a burly security guard along as they help a woman sneak into her own home to grab belongings for herself and her two young daughters. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. . One child born with an incomplete liver died. . . . " sw. htm>. This is why those laws need to be enforced. Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. . The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. Some read simply, "Baby Keate," or "Baby Bateman," or "Baby Cooke," with holes where numeric date tiles might otherwise be placed. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. Even the few highly educated people there . Structural Birth Defects. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. . There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. . Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. . If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". . That apparently was John Ortell Kingston's intent, although most studies of first-cousin mating show their offspring test lower on IQ exams, Jorde says. . "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. We're sitting in Ron's large kitchen, eating a meal of homemade tomato sauce and sweet Italian sausage that his wife Geria retired marriage and family therapist originally from Hurleyville, NY, who he met six years ago on Zoosk!has prepared in a slowcooker. "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 son of Pauls sister Rachel herself a daughter of Ortell and LaDonna Kingston 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. LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. . ". "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . . Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. . But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." ", (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) "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. She also had a child with a clubfoot, and I think probably half of her children had respiratory problems when they were babies, because they were so related.". "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. . "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. 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. . Also known as the LDCJC, the Kingston Clan, and The Order, it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. . July 1, 2020. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. And then there are the more livable genetic conditions. But by 2006, Dr. Theodore Tarby, of Arizona, had discovered at least 20 more children living with the condition in Short Creek, all within just blocks of each other. Her younger sister Emily thought it was a joke, too, until one day another Order kid told her, We cant play with you because the Tuckers are n------.. In 2003, Order member Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking his first cousin, 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston, as his fourth wife. "A Secretive Refrain: . "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. . Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! Its ominous-sounding moniker, The Order, is a reference to the United Order, a quasi-utopian society proposed by LDS-founder Joseph Smith, and practiced in some Mormon communities under the leadership of early church president Brigham Young. "Until the test is available, Tarby says, the best prevention measure remains refraining from crossing Barlows, Jessops and their relations--who make up half the population of the polygamist enclave. 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. . For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. . lucky Branches of the polygamist mans family left out of the genealogy will change the incidence of common ancestors and potentially mask the true disease risk and incidence in the community. Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. October 15, 2002: "There will be a viewing at father's house at 3p.m. 11, p. 128, ". . Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. "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.' . Surely, there were too many deaths. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. The baby cemetery is a mess of overgrown weeds and dry, cracked dirt, home to hundreds of infant and toddler-size graves, not all of them marked. One outspoken Mormon matriarch who attended the same Sunday meeting for 50 years commented about the health of the polygamous descendants versus the monogamous descendants, 'You see it in the obituaries. From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. . . . "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. In the revelation, the Lord commands him to take virgins 'an hundredfold in this world' for the purpose to 'multiply and replenish the Earth' so 'they may bear the souls of men.' "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . 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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. . 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. '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. . "The leaders must also understand the ethical considerations of continuing behavior, he says, that is bringing children into the world who suffer tragic deformities. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. "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. In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. sr. . . . Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. WREs influence earned special scrutiny in February 2016 after the IRS, the EPA and other government agencies raided owner Jacob Kingstons house as well as The Orders bank and other locations, carting away bankers box after bankers box of records. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. 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. ". Not one defect, but many. "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. They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. ". "In polygamy . 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. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' . "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. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. This is all compounded by the split between the FLDS and an offshoot group of polygamists that moved to nearby Centennial Park following a disagreement over how the community should be governed, and by whom). Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. "Every person carries some lethal genes. . "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . 5, p. 22. 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. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. . "There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble because he was having children with these young girls, so he said, 'Well, I never had sex with themI used a turkey baster.'" SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. He was. 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. 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. Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. 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. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. [i]n a secret church ceremony. 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. The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. So many young people.'. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. . . Control of The Order then passed to Ortells well-educated son Paul Kingston, one of several lawyers in a cult whose members dress normally and try not to draw attention to themselves. "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. . 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 . . It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. 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. . We would cause harm, he confessed. 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. Sex. . But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. Former clan prophet John Ortell Kingston, who died in 1987, paid the Medicaid bills for a child born with severe birth defects after Utah investigators linked the wealthy father of more than 65 children to the baby. Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. . . . In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. Many children have had birth defects due to this inbreeding. They have no movement. . Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. . . Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". 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 Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. . The Latter Day Church of Christ, is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. . Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. '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. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. His seven sons and two daughters by LaDonna Peterson, the second of his 13 wives, are reputed to be the inner circle that runs the cult. There is no doubt about that at all. "Marriages among first and second cousins have been common for decades in the community, where religious doctrine requires men to have at least three wives to gain eternal salvation. Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. . . Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). "'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. "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. "Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston--John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell--has been criminally charged with incest. . The chickens are coming home to roost. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. Fumarase deficiency (FD) is an autosomal metabolic recessive disorder, meaning it is necessary for an individual with the condition to receive the mutant allele from both parents. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. The incest came to light after the girl tried to escape the arranged celestial marriage an illegal marriage, sans license. They predict the scale of the problem will increase dramatically in the future. "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. . and councilmen.' my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. 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.
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