Matt Browning seems less sure. . Dawna asks me. There lives Ross LeBaron Jr., a descendant of another polygamous sect (separate from the FLDS but quite similar in practice) called the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. . These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. . . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. 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. 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. "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. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. . 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. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. 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. "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. LeBaron Jr. has been accused by three of his own sons, who purport to have DNA evidence obtained by saliva samples, of fathering four children with his own biological daughter. Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. . The lawyers words call to mind another heavenly curse, described in 2 Nephi, Chapter 5 of the Book of Mormon, where God caused a skin of blackness to come upon a group called the Lamanites, supposedly ancestors of Native Americans. Sex. They got married and contacted the . More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. 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. . . . 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. . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . . Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . 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. . There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. "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. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah, an Incorporated Utah Non-profit Corporation Has a Mission to Promote Joyful Living, Rational Think)ing, and Responsible Behavior," July 2005, at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html) [Andrea] Moore-Emmett [author of 'God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped'] contends that [in polygamy] incest, statutory rape, torture, physical abuse, forced marriages, and trafficking of girls is rampant. The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. 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. This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. . Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. . . . ", -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. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. The brother missionaries have been in the habit of picking out the prettiest women for themselves before they get here, and bringing on the ugly ones for us; hereafter you have to bring them all here before taking any of them, and let us all have a fair shake. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. . . Ron says the cults justification for its racism goes back to early Mormon teachings about a war in heaven between the forces of Satan and those of Jesus. 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. . . . Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. . . ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. 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. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. 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"). I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. A simple urine test will reveal whether there is an excess of fumaric acid in the urine, if the other, more external symptoms aren't obvious enough. The Order can rightly claim discrimination by mainstream Mormonism, but this is due to its embrace of polygamy, which the LDS church officially abandoned in 1890 in order for Utah to become a state. In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. . . . "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, . The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. soon . This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' That means the number of cases likely will grow. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. . He also married a woman descended from polygamy. 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. There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. . . 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------.. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. 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. . Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. . "Community historian Ben Bistline said most of the community's 8,000 residents are in two major families descended from a handful of founders who settled there in the 1930s. "'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. Some would say that is because it takes generations for certain inbred recessive genetic traits to manifest. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . He was. breeding really functional? Johnson maintained that The Orders vast array of businesses which includes a grocery store, pawn shops, a garbage disposal business, an insurance company, a politically-influential biofuels plant, and a high-end firearms manufacturer employs individuals of various racial and ethnic minorities. . "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. . 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.". The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. . ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. 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 . And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. There are baby graves year that date back as earlier as the 1950s, potentially even earlier: many are unmarked. . 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. . According to historian Brian Hales Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto, Brother Elden, as he was also known, had five wives and 17 children. 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. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. 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. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) He estimates the test would . ("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. Well, my sister had a little baby with a cleft lip; it was her first child and it had a cleft lip and cleft palate, because they were both Jessops, and Jessops are carriers of that gene. "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. . That sister, too, dealt with a lot of respiratory problems with her kids, "because of the relation," Dawna explains. 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. . _____, --How "God's Genes" Do Ugly Things: The Biological Attack on "Modern"-day Followers of Mormonism's Originally-"Revealed" Doctrine of Polygamy. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. . . . (KUTV) Weeks after a Kingston polygamist clan member was charged in the death of her child, former members of that group are speaking out about what they say is a much bigger problem. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. . . 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. . Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. . "Her book . "Every person carries some lethal genes. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . Once free of the cult, Lu Ann, Allison and other ex-Order members have had to unlearn the hatred that was drilled into their heads. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. . 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. . 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. . . This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. 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. As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. "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 2003, Order member Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking his first cousin, 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston, as his fourth wife. . . Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Obsessed with the purity of their bloodline and empowered by a sense of entitlement on par with the divine right of kings, the Kingstons have made incest the cornerstone of a self-serving theology that loathes non whites, fosters homophobia and abhors government authority. Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . 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. "Our ancestral destiny meant we might give birth to sons who would die at maturity or daughters who would carry the trait to the next generation of sons. I didnt even know the n-word was bad until I was like 15 or 16, she told Intelligence Report. . "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . 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.. ozpoof There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' . And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' . "'It would have been unusual if he wasn't using artificial insemination in his herd, and by virtue of that, was probably using semen from some bulls that had been inbred,' says Dennis Green, a professor of beef cattle genetics at Colorado State University. "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. _____. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. . Lucky was the first to die in my generation. That's the big problem.' "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. . Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced There is no sign. "John Ortell Kingston was the first Kingston to experiment with incest, marrying and bearing children with two half-sisters and two nieces, according to numerous ex-members of the clan. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. . Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. . "There is too little empirical data of uncle-niece, half-brother/half-sister mating to draw firm conclusions about the IQ, survival rates, birth defects or longevity of their offspring, he says. . . "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. Ross LeBaron Jr. recently took to the Internet to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, as well as for LaVoy Finicum, the lone fatality in that ordeal. "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. . Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. . . 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. 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. Still more, rather cryptically, feature child-size palm and footprints. Okay, I have one legal wife, he said. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. . 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. Mormons can now see why American citizens passed laws intended to stop polygamy, a relic of unwise prophecy, laws continuously disregarded in Utah, a state controlled by the Mormon Church, if they will only look. . . "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. . 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. . . . One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. . . . They have no movement. . . . . If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. 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). The incest came to light after the girl tried to escape the arranged celestial marriage an illegal marriage, sans license. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. 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. [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. 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.' . "It was . 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. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. . Indeed, the group was founded during the Great Depression as a communal religious organization where members dedicated their earnings and possessions to building the Kingdom of God on Earth, as one church document attests. "It's like any inbred disorder," Tarby says. [T]he one-wife system not only degenerates the human family, both physically and intellectually, but it is entirely incompatible with philosophical notions of immortality; it is a lure to temptation, and has always proved a curse to a people. She talked about how you cant associate with black people or anybody of a different race., Based on available evidence, including the accounts of numerous former Order members, the SPLC has designated The Order as a hate group under the category of `general hate.'. 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