. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. . "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. Dawna asks me. 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. As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. sw. htm>. "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. . The fact that most of the people in the Kingston clan were born into the lifestyle is very key to group think because this is all they know, and some may never question the beliefs even when they age because it has been their whole world all their life. If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. He estimates the test would . . "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. 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. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. . Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. Meanwhile, Mary Ann Kingston, 22, has brought a $110 million civil suit against 242 Order members and 97 companies they operate, claiming that they share collective responsibility for abuse she. These men are living freely in the Cane Beds area. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. ". Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' [i]n a secret church ceremony. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer, which produces sniper rifles and so-called bullpup rifles, The latter, unlike conventional magazine-fed rifles, have shorter barrels, with the guns action located behind the trigger. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. . 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. Another significant group is the Kingston Clan, also known as "The Order" and officially the Latter Day Church of Christ, with about 2000 members scattered throughout Utah. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. . . ", "They took their lives," Ron says. . . SALT LAKE CITY (CN) Survivors of Utah's notorious Kingston clan filed a lawsuit seeking punitive damages against 22 Kingston members on Wednesday for sex trafficking minors born into the organization, sexual battery, child abuse and more. . Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. . KUTV A large police presence swarmed a well-known polygamous family's property in South Salt Lake Wednesday.A Department of Justice Spokesman Peter Carr confirmed to KUTV that it is involved in . "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. _____. 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. The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. and cousins. The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women-stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout Christendom, and which had been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious. ("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. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. 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. . Tucker recounted the clans version of the apocalypse, the End of the World War, a riff on a prophecy some ascribe to Joseph Smith, called The White Horse Prophecy. . . "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. . Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? I pass the dairy, the zoo, the park, the former birthing clinic, the condemned high school built on a foundation of adobe bricks, and so on. 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------.. Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, . They got married and contacted the . I hate to talk like this about my own genealogy,' Wyler says, 'but, literally, they are keeping all the breeding stock--the women, the [strictly faithful] men--and weeding out the disobedient men. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. . They can't sit up. . 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. "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. When this got around to his dad, his father packed up Snows belongings and left them in the room of a hotel owned by The Order. One man, who asks to remain nameless to protect his and his family's privacy, describes a lifetime of round-the-clock care and too-frequent hospital visits for his five sons. . She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . Since most Kingston children are born in homes under the scrutiny of trusted and secretive family midwives or clan leaders, documentation of medical abnormalities is rare, but not unprecedented. . . He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. . "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. . 'We do know there are biological hazards. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. . for Nathanael Allred's baby. In a letter to the Intelligence Report responding to allegations made by former members, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative Society, claimed that The Orders foundational principles include the Golden Rule, and that the church rejects any form of racism or bigotry. Tucker is another of Ortells many sons, though not from the favored wife, LaDonna. . . There have also been charges made that some plural wives and their children have . And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. "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. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. . . The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. 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. In the l950s, research doctors thought we were one of the few families in the world with this form of nephritis, known as Alports syndrome. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . 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. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. "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. . " Somehow LaDonnas curse was transferred to the Tuckers via Christy, Rons wife, because, Christys mom left The Order and married an Irishman, before leaving him and returning to the fold. . ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). . . 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. . Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. the FLDS has the highest known rate of a rare genetic disorder called "fumarase deficiency" that causes severe birth defects. and councilmen.' 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. . The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. 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. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. 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.". ". Some outside the church have referred to the group as "the Kingston Clan" or the "Kingston Cult," although leaders believe that these terms are "inaccurate and derogatory." . Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. "It wasn't until I left the FLDS and moved away from the community that I realized I'd been to an unusually high number of funerals growing up in the Creek," says Alyssa Bistline over a crackling phone connection. 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. . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. . For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' . "Several Kingston offspring of incestuous couplings also have been born without fingernails, a disease that could be linked to a number of genetically caused abnormalities, although an exact diagnosis is impossible without closer study of medical records. Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. "But this is a very unlikely scenario for FLDS faithful, who practice a religious doctrine that requires men to be strictly obedient to religious leaders and requires women to give birth to as many children as possible to increase the sect's numbers. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . . So what about polygamy? . . . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. Elden also instituted the church law of one above the other, requiring members blind obedience to the churchs hierarchy of numbered men, with Elden being Brother Number One. "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. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. . The stage was set for the appearance of the rare disease when their 12th child, Martha Jessop, married her second cousin, John Yeates Barlow, in 1923, according to LDS genealogy data and Colorado City historian Ben Bistline. Men make all decisions affecting her health. Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. There was also testimony, during one hearing, that someone in the Kingston clan wanted to blow up the courthouse. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. . "Another of Rugg's full sisters, Andrea Johnson, died in 1992 of complications of pre-eclampsia, a condition of pregnancy that was not treated until after the young girl, swollen with toxic fluid, was rushed to the emergency unit at University Hospital. ", (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 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. A fifth child, they say, was fathered by their eldest brother Wayne LeBaron, (who was married to Dawna Black Bistline's cousin at the time of this child's allegedly incestuous conception). . The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. . lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . 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. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. "For Colorado City and Hildale to avoid more fumarase, polygamist leaders must use their authority to make sure that those potentially carrying the fumarase gene are not allowed to marry, says geneticist Aleck. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. 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. . 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. my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. . Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. . Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. "I'm like, Really? . The three marriages between second cousins have produced at least eight children afflicted with fumarase deficiency, according to a report in the May 2000 'Annals of Neurology' (based on the study conducted by the group led by Tarby and Aleck), interviews with doctors treating the disease and anecdotal evidence gathered from the community. . "Like his father-in-law, John Y. Barlow became one of the towering patriarchs of the fundamentalist Mormon community and served as FLDS prophet from 1935 until his death in 1949. . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. They have no movement. "It was . July 1, 2020. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. 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