"Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. . 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. Ron Rohbock, 64, who was kicked out of the FLDS in 2002 after serving on church security for decades at Warren and Rulon Jeffs' side, has a different answer. Some read simply, "Baby Keate," or "Baby Bateman," or "Baby Cooke," with holes where numeric date tiles might otherwise be placed. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. . Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. . This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' "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. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. . A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. Children inherit disabling illnesses. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. . In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. 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. "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. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. 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. . http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm, http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html, http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html, http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723. . "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 vaginal or bowel opening. "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. She is guiding me all around town, following my route, turn by turn, on Google maps. The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. . It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. . But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. . ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. There are also accounts of dead babies being buried at the Holy Spot, a tree-shrouded patch of land across the street from a grade school in Bountiful, just north of Salt Lake City. 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. . But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' Lucky was the first to die in my generation. Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. Something along the lines of, to build a superhuman, if you have four or five defects to get the one good one, its worth it, he recalled. . he says. . Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. 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. 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. Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. 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. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. 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. David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. "Until the test is available, Tarby says, the best prevention measure remains refraining from crossing Barlows, Jessops and their relations--who make up half the population of the polygamist enclave. In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. 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 "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. . Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. 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. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. "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. restricted in some polygamous sects, including FLDS groups in Colorado City, Arizona; Hildale, Utah; and West Texas, that force some of the young males to leave the communities . "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. 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. . . That sister, too, dealt with a lot of respiratory problems with her kids, "because of the relation," Dawna explains. '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. Not one defect, but many. . . It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. breeding really functional? 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 . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. . 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. . "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. on the flat hay fields that stretch from the edge of Woods Cross to the crusty shores of the Great Salt Lake, that John Ortell Kingston studied the genetics of in-line breeding. "Have you ever heard of the term The Turkey Baster?" 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. "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. . 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. . requote from Steve's excellent post ! His brother, John Ortell Kingston, took over the leadership of The Order incorporated in the 1970s as the Latter Day Church of Christ. Sex. . "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. "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. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). FOX 13 . That's still gross." 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. "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. . Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. 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. '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. So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. Bad harm. It's also still rape with a foreign object, I remind us both unnecessarily. . . . Various congenital and genital defects, dwarfism, fused limbs, fingernails lacking, mental illness and mental retardation, spina bifida, and microcephalous are some of the diseases and mutations. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. . 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. . . 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. Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. . 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. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. 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. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. . The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. . "The leaders must also understand the ethical considerations of continuing behavior, he says, that is bringing children into the world who suffer tragic deformities. From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. Elden continued the tradition. "In polygamy . 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. 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." . . . 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. Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? 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. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. That apparently was John Ortell Kingston's intent, although most studies of first-cousin mating show their offspring test lower on IQ exams, Jorde says. 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. . Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. Polygamy would have afforded the opportunity of producing from that consecrated fatherhood and motherhood the improved type of man the world needs to reveal the highest possibilities of the race, that the day of the super man might come, and with him come also the redemption and betterment of the race.'. "Every person carries some lethal genes. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. "It is important that Mormons fight the tendency to discount history and the actions of their leaders in favor of a faith- promoting history while neglecting important facts. ", "They took their lives," Ron says. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . July 1, 2020. . 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. "The genetic defect has been traced back to one of the community's founding patriarchs, the late Joseph Smith Jessop, and the first of his plural wives, according to medical literature, the Mormon Church genealogy database and residents of the community familiar with Jessop and Barlow family histories. . ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . "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 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. There have also been charges made that some plural wives and their children have . Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. 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. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. "Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston--John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell--has been criminally charged with incest. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. "Her book . Asked about these legends, Kingston spokesman Kent Johnson, explained via email that on occasion Order families have asked to spread the ashes of a child lost before or after birth at the Holy Spot. . . Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. "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. Intelligence Report then read the names of women believed to be his wives four in all. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. The company was founded in 2007 with an investment from family members. His seven sons and two daughters by LaDonna Peterson, the second of his 13 wives, are reputed to be the inner circle that runs the cult. 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. 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 chickens are coming home to roost. "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. And then there are the more livable genetic conditions. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. . "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. Let's revisit the boastful words of Mormon Church Prophet John Taylor and Mormon Church Apostle Heber C. Kimball, both quoted earlier: -Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! Appointments & Access. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. 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. Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). "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. 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. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' . and last updated 1:46 PM, Feb 24, 2021. . . Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. So what about polygamy? . 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. . Still more, rather cryptically, feature child-size palm and footprints. 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. "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. . That will open up for The Order to rise up and take over the world, Ron said. 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. "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. . . As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. Pentecostal Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. . Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. . 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. 'The downside is that if you don't start with good genetics, and if there is baggage in the genes of the individual, inbreeding will uncover that baggage. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. 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 . ". 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. . 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. They steer clear of banks,. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . 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