The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. A seventh son, Hyrum Dalton Kingston, is a polygamist but has not married incestuously, according to ex-members. . 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. . . . Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . The Kingston sisters were able to help her escape although Ava wanted to stay with her family, she knew she couldn't give up her sense of self and continue watching the cycle of abuse continue. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. . "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. "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. Through diligent money management and hard work, the Davis County Cooperative Society became very financially successful. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. "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. They are coming out of polygamous communities proliferating in Utah because Mormons are unable to face their history or follow sound marriage and childbirth practices. . Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. ". All went bareheaded and barefoot. . [7] Members of the Latter Day Church of Christ are also members of the Davis County Cooperative Society (a separate organization and legal entity) which practices the law of consecration and United Order. Meanwhile, as Mormons wait patiently and faithfully for multi-wifery's official return, the words of their founding Church fathers sound praise to polygamy past, present and future: --The Mormon God's Declaration of Righteous Genetic Combinations: Monogamy is a Christian Blight on Humanity, While Polygamy is the Lord's Way to Produce Fresh, Virile Men; Good-Lookin' Women; and Super Strong Stock to Carry Civilization Into Eternity. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' "Dr. Vinodh Narayanan, a pediatric neurologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, says he is seeking funding to develop a test that would allow public health officials to collect voluntary blood samples from as many FLDS members as possible. Video unavailable This video. . "During this early period, polygamy was practiced secretly by the Mormon leadership, men who covertly preached and expanded polygamy while publicly deceiving the general Mormon population about the practice. One of the guilty pleas states they cycled fraud proceeds through a number of international partners and then back to Washakie's bank accounts, falsely claiming them as loans or profits. 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 . Three others, including Grant, said they had to flee to escape such a fate. David Kingston was released from prison in 2003. 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. Who Murdered Polygamist Wife and Mother Carolyn Yvonne Kingston? Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. ", (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) . "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. . . . Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more. The Kingston Clan, also known as The Order is a Mormon based group that is far more like an organized crime family and cult than religious organization. . . Jeremy Kingston was sentenced to a year in prison in 2004 for taking LuAnn Kingston, his cousin and aunt, as his fourth wife in 1994; their relationship began when he was 24 and she was 15. 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. When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet - culteducation.com 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. . Satan will try to stop the power of the Lord and that power is where the Lord has given his covenant of consecration and that is: to the Davis County Co-op of Bountiful, Utah. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . . They have no movement. That leads to problems." . . 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' Your IP: . "The disease is not widely known about even in Colorado City, a place where even normally public events such as marriages are conducted in secret. In the 1940s, members of the Co-op wore blue bib overalls. Over the past decades, the Kingston Group has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive cooperative system, with wealth in at least 50 corporations in Utah and scattered across the West. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. ", ("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) The group also teaches its members that only those with so-called pure blood will survive the apocalypse, according to the lawsuit. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. Much of what we have reviewed appears frivolous and unfounded, Gustafson said in an emailed statement. I am convinced they do. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. . '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. 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 . Girls in polygamous Kingston Group continue to marry as young as 15 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. . . . He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. When the Lord chose Brother Elden through which to send this new covenant, all other covenants were thereby dissolved. During the 1920s, hundreds of dissenters from the LDS Church gathered into specific groups across the Wasatch Front. . 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. Paul continued to practice his fathers ideas regarding intra-family marriages. . In addition, placing the law of consecration at the pinnacle of divine laws is inconsistent with scripture and restoration history. . . . [1] Charles William Kingston, Autobiography, 2324; spelling and punctuation standardized. The Kingston Group stopped proselytizing new converts when the cooperative became successful, and today they perform no missionary work of any kind. "FLDS marriages, Wyler and other community experts say, are an extension of a breeding program that began with Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in the 1830s. Escaping Polygamy is an American documentary television series that premiered on December 30, 2014, on LMN.The show now airs on Lifetime, but can also be viewed on Tubi, and follows the work of three sisters who left the Kingston clan, a polygamous group based in Salt Lake City, Utah known as The Order, as they help family and/or friends break free of polygamy. 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. "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. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. . Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. Could my childish intuition that the adults and doctors lips were sealed against my questions involve family secrets; secrets relatives took to their graves rather than betray? . Disturbing photos of the modern-day Ku Klux Klan - CBS News Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. Bearing in mind I'm not American and have only a vague knowledge of Mormonism, a video came across my youtube from a former member of the Kingston clan/the order and wow is this terrifying. Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. '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. . So many young people.'. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. . Only the FLDS prophet can arrange and perform polygamous marriages, and those marriages are taking place in a community in which almost everybody is related. This means all other covenants were of no effect through which source they can. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. 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.'. [40] In 2009, the then-Attorney General of Utah, Mark Shurtleff, claimed that child marriages within polygamous societies in Utah, such as the Latter Day Church of Christ, had "effectively stopped". . "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. The State of Utah stated: "It was a specific investigation that we were approached by [federal law enforcement] to participate in." The clan, known privately as the Order, runs what prosecutors believe is one of the largest organized-crime operations in Utah, overseeing its far-flung empire from a string of secret locations . Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. The group has drawn legal attention before. [23][36] These relationships are defined as incestuous according to Utah's Criminal Code 76-7-102 (2021), which states: "Related person" means a person related to the provider or actor as an ancestor, descendant, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, or first cousin, and includes: (i) blood relationships of the whole or half blood without regard to legitimacy; (ii) the relationship of parent and child by adoption; and (iii) the relationship of stepparent and stepchild while the marriage creating the relationship of a stepparent and stepchild exists. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . This seemed to apply in my own kindred because those of us who left Mormonism and married outsiders are less riddled with the deleterious genetic legacy than relatives who married within the ancestral Mormon gene pool. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. Some of these marriages will include parents who both are carriers of the fumarase deficiency gene, making it certain that more children will be afflicted with the disease. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. Men rise in prominence by being obedient and pure of blood and by having large families that can produce a lot of money and workers for the group, the suit continues. [30] This practice lasted only a short time and was abandoned sometime before 1940. '90% of the community is related to one side or the other,' said Bistline, a former member of the sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Kingston Group is not affiliated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based on the Utah-Arizona line that is run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, who. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . . "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. Latter Day Church of Christ - Wikipedia But rather than amassing a fortune for the sake of accumulating wealth or to simply sustain a few selected leaders, donations flow into the Church coffers and out again to provide financial support for the accomplishment of the Churchs responsibilities regarding missionary work, temple work, and providing for physical welfare needs. "Experts say the number of children afflicted in the FLDS community is expected to steadily increase as a result of decades of inbreeding between two of the polygamous sect's founding families--the Barlows and the Jessops. . She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. [1], The Church . First, the truth and the priesthood keys are dispensed from heaven to a prophet on earth. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. 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. "Fast-forward . [46], In July 2019, Jacob Kingston, Isaiah Kingston, and two others pled guilty to participating in a fraud scheme masterminded by Lev Derman, a non-member and Armenian national. "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. . . "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. . [21][26], The Latter Day Church of Christ is based on a belief in Jesus Christ and the restoration of his gospel in these latter days. By 1935, his followers began to move to Bountiful, Utah, intending to live under a United Order communal program as defined by Joseph Smith in the Doctrine and Covenants. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. Consanguinity causes aggregate clusters of deleterious genes to collect in families, which then express themselves as rare recessive disorders like nephritis, cystic fibrosis, biliary artesia, albinism, short stature and many others. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. 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 ! 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. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . [7] Some members of the church are also believed to practice consanguineous marriage, or marriage to relatives within the group. . ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "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. . "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. . Precisely where Elden obtained valid priesthood authority is a matter of dispute. . At the time this inbreeding took place these prophets preached and practiced modern eugenic science, the science of controlling the traits of future populations through selective breeding for idealized traits like blond hair, blue eyes and tall stature. The two Kingston brothers and their business partner, Lev Dermen, are in jail awaiting trial, scheduled to start in July and last six weeks.