Source: Twitter Jessica with her husband and three daughters. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. . ". ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. 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. . 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.' . Kingston Clan. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. . This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. Some 42 different Klan groups were active in 22 . . died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. ("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. 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. 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. 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. . 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. 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. [1], The Church . That means the number of cases likely will grow. . These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. Well, law enforcement often tends to look the other way in cases like polygamy, unless specific reports reach the agencies. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. . This means all other covenants were of no effect through which source they can. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. This story has been shared 112,868 times. 13:1). . 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. 13, p. 195, "We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they (non-Mormons) envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. For 5 episodes that aired on Viewpoint on Mormonism between 9/14-18, 2020, click these: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Interview with Doris Hanson Part 1 Part 2 By Eric Johnson Summary. It alleges sex trafficking, sexual battery and child abuse, and seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages. "Wyler said it's all part of the community's religious system. . ", "C250 - Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee", "DCCS Self-Sustaining Policy, Contributions to the Community", "The Polygamist Accused of Scamming the U.S. Out of $500 Million", "Former WRE CEO testifies about money paid to DCCS Entities", "Jury Finds Los Angeles Businessman Guilty in $1 Billion Biodiesel Tax Fraud Scheme", "Polygamists Admit $512 Million Fraud for U.S. Fuel-Tax Credits", "CEO And CFO Of Utah Biodiesel Company And California Businessman Charged In $500 Million Fuel Tax Credit Scheme", "WRE Defendants arrested and awaiting trial", "Trial postponed for last defendant in fraud case involving members of the Kingston polygamous family", "Complaint and Jury Demand, Grant, et al. . The accusers describe a patriarchal doctrine known as The Law of One Above Another, which they claim designates everyone a rank in the groups hierarchy. . Reportedly, Paul and his brother each have dozens of wives and hundreds of children. . _____. . . . . ', "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.'. The trial of the man, David Ortell Kingston . _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. Women and girls, after theyre married, submit to their husbands and men answer to higher-ranked men, the suit alleges. [18][7], The Cooperative had its birth during the Great Depression when many families struggled immensely to provide for their families. "While discussing health problems at a family gathering with some of my cousins wives, we discovered astonishingly that three out of four of us, all polygamy descendants, had borne a son with a clubfoot. on the flat hay fields that stretch from the edge of Woods Cross to the crusty shores of the Great Salt Lake, that John Ortell Kingston studied the genetics of in-line breeding. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. [7], Plural marriage is practiced by some members of the LDCJC and members make their own choice in who they marry. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' But it must needs be done in mine own way; and behold this is the way that I, the Lord, have decreed to provide for my saints, that the poor shall be exalted, in that the rich are made low (D&C 104:16). It may be that the Co-op is trying to help the poor in some anonymous way, but I have seen no evidence of it. . 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. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' "Her book . "The widespread presence of the fumarase deficiency gene in the bloodlines of the founding families of Colorado City is going to make reaching any such goal extremely difficult. Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. "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. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. With the dawn of the twenty-first century, lawsuits and education among Kingston followers would combine to create new obstacles, as leaders perpetuate this financially spiritual hybrid organization. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. Aleck is a geneticist who participated along with Tarby and others in the groundbreaking study of several polygamous families with fumarase deficiency in the late 1990s. . David Kingston was released from prison in 2003. 11, p. 128, ". That leads to problems." . . "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. Escaping Polygamy is an American documentary television series that premiered on December 30, 2014, on LMN.The show now airs on Lifetime, but can also be viewed on Tubi, and follows the work of three sisters who left the Kingston clan, a polygamous group based in Salt Lake City, Utah known as The Order, as they help family and/or friends break free of polygamy. 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). . . ", -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. "Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding. 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. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. "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. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. The Kingston sisters were able to help her escape although Ava wanted to stay with her family, she knew she couldn't give up her sense of self and continue watching the cycle of abuse continue. They operate in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. While engaged in that enterprise, he reportedly received an angelic visitation. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. WRE has since become defunct. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. . 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. [2] Also known as the LDCJC,[3] the Kingston Clan, and The Order,[4][5][6] it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. 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. . FOX 13 spoke to the man who filed the IRS. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers. . . "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. The group has drawn legal attention before. . 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. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? . . Articles of Incorporation of the Davis County Cooperative Society, 7 February 1941. . The corporation produces goods and services that are used by members, and sold or traded to other cooperatives and to the public. . [19] For many years, members of the Co-operative lived in poor conditions, and those in need had no legal way to apply for assistance. Those unions fell within Utahs consanguinity restrictions and, if discovered, would be considered incestuous under the laws of the state. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . The Kingston Group stopped proselytizing new converts when the cooperative became successful, and today they perform no missionary work of any kind. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. . present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. . Members of a powerful polygamous group in Utah claim they were forced into underage marriages with their relatives to keep their blood pure, were raped by their husbands and had to perform child labor, according to a bombshell lawsuit. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . lost the priesthood which had come down to them from the Prophet Joseph Smith. . [39], The organization continues to publicly denounce the practice of child marriage,[41][39] and maintains that marriages within the group are not coerced. . "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. "Tarby and a team of doctors from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson began researching the disease and soon discovered that fumarase deficiency was occurring in at least two other families living in the same isolated community that practiced an unusual custom. According to Kingston teachings, this scripture should not be taken too literally, and all of the efforts commenced through Joseph Smith came to a dead halt in 1934, thereby necessitating Elden Kingston to initiate a new dispensation. Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' Several people also wonder if parts of 'Escaping Polygamy' is dramatized. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. 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. '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. . Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. and Privacy Policy. Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, 2023 Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, Joseph Smith Restores the Practice of Plural Marriage, Plural Marriage Commanded, Permitted, and Not Permitted, 1920sPolygamists Coalesce into an Organization, Lorin C. Woolley and His Council of Seven Friends, Independent Polygamists and Fundamentalists. We've received your submission. 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. . We recall that Joseph Smith made no effort to implement the law of consecration while in Nauvoo (see D&C 105:34). Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. Assets are generally estimated to be in the range of $200 million, although one Colorado competitor gave an even more stratospheric guess, pegging the clan's wealth at $11 billion. . 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. . . Kimball. The Kingston Group is believed to have a few thousand members, mostly in Utah and Idaho. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. A Kingston Family Primer. [6] Brooke Adams, Salt Lake Tribune, May 22, 2004. . "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. 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. 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. 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. . . "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. 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. . , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. . 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. 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. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! . . This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. . The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. 75.119.192.80 (Patricia was one of Kingston's 14 wives, and the clip does not reveal whether she is still alive.) . . ", (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). . Even the few highly educated people there . "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. After two years of investigating, they did not find any welfare fraud. One child born with an incomplete liver died. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) "John and Charles' brother, Merlin Barnum Kingston, married and had children with four nieces and a half-sister, say ex-members, including one of his own daughters. Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. . So many young people.'. . _____. . Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . . Since the natural male-to-female ratio is roughly 50-50, the ratio must be manipulated so that there are more females than males for polygamy to work. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? . . . "Other possible genetic traits include: microcephaly, a malformation of the skull in which the infant has a small head (ex-members say two children with microcephaly have died and eight others are institutionalized); blindness; spina bifida; Down syndrome; kidney disease and abnormal leg and arm joints. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. "'My guess is this man had used some of these inbreeding practices in his herd so he was probably in the camp that believed superior genetics could be propagated in a particular line,' Green says. A brief review of the accomplishments of the Co-op produces an impressive spreadsheet with assets in excess of $200 million. Paul continued to practice his fathers ideas regarding intra-family marriages. 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. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. . At the time this inbreeding took place these prophets preached and practiced modern eugenic science, the science of controlling the traits of future populations through selective breeding for idealized traits like blond hair, blue eyes and tall stature. : About half of the 8,000 people living in the towns are blood relatives of two of the founding families that settled in the 1930s on the desolate high desert plateau against the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. Elden clearly claimed to hold the priesthood keys, saying, I have those keys of power.[3]. "Genetics of Incest: Pre-eclampsia is a condition that can be traced genetically from one generation to the next and is prevalent among some Kingstons, Rugg says. "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. 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. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. 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? The Kingston Clan is a polygamous group with an estimated 10,500 members. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . [17] That same year, Ardous Kingston Gustafson, a mother of four and founding Co-op member, was jailed on Christmas Eve when she could not produce membership lists that were to be used to target plural families for further arrest and harassment. . 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 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. 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. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. The Kingston Group is not affiliated withthe 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 is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexually assaulting girls he considered brides. http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm, http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html, http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html, http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723. The accusers also claim that the group arranged child marriages so that girls would become pregnant and beholden to their husbands and the religious sect. "In polygamy . Jacob Kingston told prosecutors the company was capable of producing some amounts of biodiesel, but in no year did it ever produce more than 8.5 million gallons. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. A seventh son, Hyrum Dalton Kingston, is a polygamist but has not married incestuously, according to ex-members. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. The current leader of the Kingston Clan is Paul Elden Kingston, and it is reported that he has up to 27 wives (including three half-sisters) and some wives have as many as 18 children. "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. . It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. The organized Ku Klux Klan movement saw a boost in its membership in 2017. . restricted in some polygamous sects, including FLDS groups in Colorado City, Arizona; Hildale, Utah; and West Texas, that force some of the young males to leave the communities . "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. BungieBungie.netBungieBungie During the 1920s, hundreds of dissenters from the LDS Church gathered into specific groups across the Wasatch Front. Exhibiting LGBTQ+ tendencies can indicate impure blood, according to the lawsuit. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. It is a common and intentional practice in the Order to require girls and women to submit sexually to their husbands even if the sexual submission is against their will because having children results in workers for the benefit of the Order, the lawsuit states. . This is why those laws need to be enforced. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. [Mormon] [h]istorian B. H. Roberts, notes an eugenic attitude regarding polygamy: "'It was in the name of a divinely-ordered species of eugenics that Latter-day Saints accepted the revelation which included a plurality of wives. Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more. american airlines flight 191, isbe instructional minutes, pacific classic gymnastics 2022,
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