. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. Another is a first cousin. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. 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. . This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. "Researchers have identified a gene on the first chromosome that causes fumarase deficiency, but no test has been developed that could be used to identify individuals carrying the malady. These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. But given that the Kingstons command an estimated 6,000 adherents, boast a business empire reportedly worth as much as $1 billion and have outlasted myriad bouts with law enforcement and the press, these dreams of world domination may be less delusional than they first seem. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. . Readily accepted as a problem among mothers past the age of 35, it is rarely discussed as a problem when fathers are over 35, let alone 80. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. 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 Additionally, ex-Order members tell of a reputed church prophecy of an End of the World War, an apocalyptic vision that foresees a bloody race war with the Kingstons as the ultimate victors, chosen by their Heavenly Father to rule the world for a millennium. Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. . "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. Two of her sisters married their first cousinsmen with whom they share the same grandfather; the sons of their father's second wife, who is their mother's full sister. "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. . 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. . 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. . There is no sign. . "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. I didnt even know the n-word was bad until I was like 15 or 16, she told Intelligence Report. . Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. Bad harm. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? . The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. ". Convinced they are breeding a pure white master race, they blame the mother if a deformed baby is born then preach she was unrighteous or unclean. _____. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. Pentecostal "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. His brother, John Ortell Kingston, took over the leadership of The Order incorporated in the 1970s as the Latter Day Church of Christ. 'All of a sudden [with] this one little baby, everything tightened up and she arched her back so hard her head was almost touching her toes,' Wyler says. We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . "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. . 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. . "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. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. "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. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. 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. "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. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. The two were playmates when they were boys. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. for Nathanael Allred's baby. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. . People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. 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. Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. "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. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. . . 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. Home births and the frequency of miscarriages and still-borns among the Kingstons have led to macabre legends of dead infants buried in Kingston back yards. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. "I'm like, Really? . Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story, the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, an article published by the ABC news network, the fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints. . Dawna's husband is a brother to her older sister's husband, "but they're only half brothers, so him and I aren't blood-related at all, because he was from the youngest mother, which had no relation to us other than marriage, and then my sister was married to the older brother and his mom and my grandmother were full sisters.". . Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. "He sent her to live in a coal yard with other polygamous wives and their many children in South Salt Lake, visiting her rarely and usually only to have sex, she testified. "There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year," says Ron. "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. 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. From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. 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. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene greatly increases, medical experts say. . As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints elders, who control the community, have labored to keep the public from finding out why the disorder is manifesting. But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. . Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. And they are growing. He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. Why is this? "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. . So many young people.'. Elden continued the tradition. A rare neurological disorder characterized by water on the brain, muscular stiffness, adducted thumbs and aphasia, x-linked hydrocephalus is expressed only in men and carried by women. A simple urine test will reveal. . They're given the utmost attention and care because the FLDS faithful believe everything in this life is a test before entering the celestial kingdom, and caring well for all of Heavenly Father's children is part of that test. 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. These can include: Cleft lip or cleft palate; Heart defects, such as missing or misshaped valves; Abnormal limbs, such as a clubfoot; Neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, and problems related to the growth and development of the . It's also still rape with a foreign object, I remind us both unnecessarily. Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. "You had a fairly diverse pool to start with, so only if that went on for a long time within this same population would you see real effects," he told ABC. "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. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . Some would say that is because it takes generations for certain inbred recessive genetic traits to manifest. 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. According to church lore, The Order came into existence when founder Charles Elden Kingston saw Jesus in the mountains above the familys settlement in Bountiful, Utah, inspiring him to create the DCCS in 1935. In secret videotapes of Order church meetings aired on Escaping Polygamy, Pauls nephew Nick Young, speaking from a church lectern, identifies himself as a numbered man, number 72, to be precise. Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. Mormons who believe that polygamy is a heaven-sent doctrine that will eventually be re-implemented on Earth by God (current Church claims of non-use notwithstanding), have a friend in go-to LDS Apostle, Bruce R. McConkie, who confidently declared: "Obviously, the holy practice [of polygamy] will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. Dawna says that, when people refer to what's going on over in the Cane Beds, they say it's probably another turkey baster situation. In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. 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. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. . The chickens are coming home to roost. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. Kingston clan birth defects. Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. '", (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) 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. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. These conditions are disproportionately common, relative to the size of the general population, in Short Creek. . . . The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. They steer clear of banks,. hello "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. The incest came to light after the girl tried to escape the arranged celestial marriage an illegal marriage, sans license. 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 . "'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. As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. There is no doubt about that at all. 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. They predict the scale of the problem will increase dramatically in the future. Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. . Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 5, p. 22. This is a humane coping strategy devised to deal with a dilemma that devastated a woman taught from birth her only value was in the number of children she bore for the Kingdom of God. 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 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. Yeah, I believe in it, he said. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. And during a recent picnic to honor the birthday of patriarch John Ortell Kingston, Order families descended on a Salt Lake Valley park, where hundreds of children of all ages blanketed the parks green expanse. One ex-Order member, who asked to be referred to as Scott, instead of his real name for fear of retribution by clan members, said hatred of gays was big in the Kingston clan, with the word f----- in frequent use. Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. . '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. Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. 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. But I do have children with other women., Asked if two women named were in fact his first cousins, Young paused, finally replying, I guess Im curious as to what youre trying to get at here.. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. He was. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? . LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. 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. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. . It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. . "Dr. Vinodh Narayanan, a pediatric neurologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, says he is seeking funding to develop a test that would allow public health officials to collect voluntary blood samples from as many FLDS members as possible. . 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' ". . Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. 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. . . ", (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). In the polygamist cult of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, cousins were encouraged to marry in order to preserve certain bloodlines. According to experts and former Jeffs followers, the cause of the birth defect is clear: Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called Fumarase Deficiency. . For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. unavailable to researchers. . My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. The Latter Day Church of Christ, is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. Or leave. But The Orders critics say that cult members see nothing wrong with bilking the government, a time-honored tradition among FLDS sects, gleefully referred to as bleeding the beast.. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. . This denial is hollow considering the record. 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