Lucky was the first to die in my generation. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. "In polygamy . It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. 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. There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. . 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. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . Pentecostal 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. Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) 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. . . " . The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. 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. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. . 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. These conditions are disproportionately common, relative to the size of the general population, in Short Creek. Men make all decisions affecting her health. ', "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.'. 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. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. . They have no movement. "I'm like, Really? . _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. "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. 6.3M views 6 years ago Profiles by VICE S1 E23 Although the mainstream Mormon church abandoned polygamy over 100 years ago, many splinter groups across Utah still practice plural marriage. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. '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. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. "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. [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. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? "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. 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. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. . Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase. "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) . They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. . . 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 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 . Hospital harm., While part of The Order, Val Snow, a twenty-something gay man with a wry sense of humor, believed being gay was like spitting in the eye of God. Snow is the son of Daniel Kingston, whom he paints as a little man with a lot of power.. . . Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. From the "Phoenix New Timms" article, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children": "Colorado City resident Isaac Wyler says FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs is trying to create the 'perfect race.'. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. This racist display was no one-off. 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. 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. . "Today, six sons and two daughters of John Ortell and LaDonna have married at least 20 half-sisters, nieces and first cousins, giving birth to a family tree that twists and tangles, and, at times, withers with children born of genetic deficiencies. Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. Or leave. I didnt even know the n-word was bad until I was like 15 or 16, she told Intelligence Report. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. By the time Joseph Smith Jessop died in September 1953, he already had 112 grandchildren, the majority of them directly descended from him and Yeates. Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. . . "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. Three of his wives are his half-sisters. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. . . Another is a first cousin. So many young people.'. He also married a woman descended from polygamy. A simple urine test will reveal. '", (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) The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. . They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). . 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 . Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . "Ex-members' claims of incest are bolstered by court records claiming John Ortell 'failed either to support or acknowledge' three children by his niece, (Susan) Mary Gustafson. 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. 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. 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. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. 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 . 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. . . . . Its ominous-sounding moniker, The Order, is a reference to the United Order, a quasi-utopian society proposed by LDS-founder Joseph Smith, and practiced in some Mormon communities under the leadership of early church president Brigham Young. 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." . . "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. ", "They took their lives," Ron says. "The children afflicted with fumarase deficiency from these three marriages include the grandchildren of Dan Barlow and his brother, the late Louis Barlow, and Merill Jessop, a top aide to fugitive prophet Warren Jeffs. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. 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.'. . . Branches of the polygamist mans family left out of the genealogy will change the incidence of common ancestors and potentially mask the true disease risk and incidence in the community. . . "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. for Nathanael Allred's baby. . For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. Cases of fumarase deficiency have shown up in the FLDS communities in Colorado City and Hildale, and doctors believe that the incidence of the condition in these communities will increase in coming generations. "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. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. "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. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. Two are nieces. . 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. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. . "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. 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 ! Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. and cousins. Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. She is guiding me all around town, following my route, turn by turn, on Google maps. . "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 a portion of Warren Jeffs' Priesthood Record a mostly dry document that details his every move and meeting one entry, a written transcription of an announcement made by Warren at lunch with his late father's family, stands out as particularly creepy. . 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 . "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. "'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. 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. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. 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. . Black people supposedly suffered from multiple scriptural curses, from the mark of Cain and Noahs curse on Ham in the Old Testament to the racist tenets of early Mormonism that have since been renounced or abandoned by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS or Mormon church. . The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09- http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html, http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. . 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? . . I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. . So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. "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. . 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