'I really doubt that if we could tell them, you know, "This male has the condition and this female has the condition; you shouldn't mate," that wouldn't stop them,' he said. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) Everyone knows it's happening, few talk about it unprompted, it just sort of..is. . The records of the marriages sealed at the Nauvoo Temple before the general exodus to Utah in the 1840s, may be the most important ones of all; yet, these are . Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. In it, black people come close to killing off the white race until they are countered by Native Americans, symbolized by a Red Horse, which gallops to the White Horses rescue. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. 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. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' . All of this is to say that incest and inbreeding have been going on for so longand so prevalentlyin the polygamous sects along the Utah/Arizona border that these stories have been woven into the fiber of the communities. Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? . 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 . "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. 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. . One child born with an incomplete liver died. . "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' They ought to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices; and it is not to be wondered at that they should envy those who so much better understand the social relations. [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. . Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. That means the number of cases likely will grow. Those affected by the genetic disorder suffer grand mal seizures and often have facial feature deformities and severe mental retardation, with IQs as low as 25. "You have to either accept" the responsibility of caring for so many children with major healthcare needs "or let it destroy you," says this man, whose wife recently suffered a stroke. 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. Okay, I have one legal wife, he said. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, . Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. 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. 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. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. ("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. _____. . . Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. "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. . Indeed, regardless of facing crushing federal government opposition to polygamous inbreeding, true-blue Mormons remain convinced that you can't keep a good man of God down To them, polygamy will be coming back some day, with sizable numbers of the faithful flock confident that its eugenic genetics will return by order of Joseph's Jesus. 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. . 'We do know there are biological hazards. . 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. 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. . In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . Tucker is another of Ortells many sons, though not from the favored wife, LaDonna. 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. Appointments & Access. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. 3, p. 291, "I have noticed that a man who has but one wife, and is inclined to that doctrine, soon begins to wither and dry up, while a man who goes into plurality [of wives] looks fresh, young, and sprightly. . . A 1999 Salt Lake Tribune article mapped the Kingstons incestuous family tree, quoting one of Ortells 65 kids, ex-Order member Connie Rugg as saying, My father experimented [with] inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.. . "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . Polygamy is outlawed in Utah, both by the states constitution, and in statute, where it is a third-degree felony, with a possible punishment of five years in prison. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. '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. . 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. If these couples are . One is a first cousin. 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. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. . "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. . requote from Steve's excellent post ! "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. ". 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. . Men make all decisions affecting her health. . 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. . 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. Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. . They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. "They were called the Second Warders and we were called the First Warders; we weren't supposed to hang out with kids from the Centennial group because they were wicked for having left," she says. . greatly increases, medical experts say. . In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. Certainly if MORmON Jesus had done this, we would hear all about it from the LDS as *proof* that God was doing his modern work via MORmONISM, but alas there is no such manifestation ! One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. . "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. 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. . "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. . "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. 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. 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? 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.. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. . . . Kingston clan birth defects. 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. . 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. . . . 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. . Jonathan Turner, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, hypothesized exactly that, in an article published by the ABC news network in 2008. "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. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. Because that one is going to be genius-level purity, and thats what The Order is looking for., Photo Credit: AP Images / Leah Hogsten, Pool (John Daniel Kingston); AP Images / Jeffrey D. Allred / Pool (Jeremy Kingston), SPLC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 63-0598743). ", (Linda Walker, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics," under "Science as Culture," originally written in the fall of 1991, updated in the summer of 1999, citations included, at: http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html) Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. 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. . . She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. "'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 few dissenters in the community say the serious genetic problems that are beginning to surface are an indication that the closed FLDS society could eventually collapse. "Nearly everyone in Colorado City, Arizona, and the adjacent town of Hildale, Utah, was a member of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that practices polygamy and had long encouraged multiple marriages between close relatives. . According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. . my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? . "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. The 43-year-old Kingston took the witness stand for the prosecution about 2:40 p.m. and is expected to answer questions through Thursday. 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we ca n't?. ' from. John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives patriarchal plurality-of-wives?. 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