But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. . "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. . In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. Dawna asks me. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. soon . Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. . Gallup Panel survey [conducted in August 2006] show[ed] that Americans are much more likely to believe most Mormons endorse practicing polygamy than to believe most Americans support it. 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. The two were playmates when they were boys. 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.'. and councilmen.' Blood tests showed the infant and 25 other children from numerous women were fathered by the same man, leading to one of the largest welfare fraud-settlements in Utah history. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. So many young people.'. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. "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. . Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. _____, --How "God's Genes" Do Ugly Things: The Biological Attack on "Modern"-day Followers of Mormonism's Originally-"Revealed" Doctrine of Polygamy. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . ", (Greg Burton, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet: Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous groups," in "The Salt Lake Tribune," 25 April 1999, at: http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html Through his brother LyleBishop of the FLDS and mouthpiece for his imprisoned brotherJeffs enacted a Judgment wherein FLDS members were asked a series of bizarre personal questions; their answers were judged, and the most righteous were welcomed into the United Order of FLDS elite. Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. 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. ", 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). '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. . 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. One outspoken Mormon matriarch who attended the same Sunday meeting for 50 years commented about the health of the polygamous descendants versus the monogamous descendants, 'You see it in the obituaries. "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. Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) 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.'. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . . . Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. . Mormons who believe that polygamy is a heaven-sent doctrine that will eventually be re-implemented on Earth by God (current Church claims of non-use notwithstanding), have a friend in go-to LDS Apostle, Bruce R. McConkie, who confidently declared: "Obviously, the holy practice [of polygamy] will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. . I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. . These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. . Before the call ended, Young insisted that he didnt admit to any kind of incest or anything. When Intelligence Report inquired if Young thought there was anything wrong with first cousins getting married, Young opined that such issues were between the individuals involved and God. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. "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. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. 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. Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase. Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. "It's like any inbred disorder," Tarby says. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. Dawna's husband is a brother to her older sister's husband, "but they're only half brothers, so him and I aren't blood-related at all, because he was from the youngest mother, which had no relation to us other than marriage, and then my sister was married to the older brother and his mom and my grandmother were full sisters.". . "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. . 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. It is bordered to the north by a well-maintained lot where there sits a stately red brick home with UEP (United Effort Plan, the church trust which is now controlled by the state of Utah in the aftermath of Jeffs' conviction) spelled out in white brick on its south-facing side. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. 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. _____. 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. . "Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene greatly increases, medical experts say. . Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. These conditions are disproportionately common, relative to the size of the general population, in Short Creek. I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". ", (Aimee Larsen Stoddard, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems," 7 October 2010, under "Birth Defects in Mormon Fundamentalist Cult," posted by "halley, 20 February 2011, at: http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723) 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. We would cause harm, he confessed. Carolyn. There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. That means the number of cases likely will grow. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. Obviously, we would love to.. I didnt even know the n-word was bad until I was like 15 or 16, she told Intelligence Report. In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). There is no doubt about that at all. the FLDS has the highest known rate of a rare genetic disorder called "fumarase deficiency" that causes severe birth defects. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. . . . . Fumarase deficiency (FD) is an autosomal metabolic recessive disorder, meaning it is necessary for an individual with the condition to receive the mutant allele from both parents. The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. 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. 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. And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. 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. "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. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. "Outside, people don't die that often, and usually they're really old.". 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. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. . Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. . 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 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. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . . . . 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. Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. "Fumarase deficiency is caused by a lack of the fumarase enzyme, an essential component in a biological process called the Krebs cycle, which converts food into energy within each cell. ". 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