"Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. ', "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.'. . Everyone knows it's happening, few talk about it unprompted, it just sort of..is. "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. . 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. It gets pretty bleak when it gets that close.' Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 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. Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' Three of his wives are his half-sisters. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. . But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. 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. 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). 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. "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. A retired Arizona law enforcement officer, Browning is the president and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network and is in charge of security for the A&E show, where his wife Tawni works as the casting producer. . . Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. . "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. They can't sit up. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. . "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. 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. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. We cannot afford to neglect the possibility our ancestors practiced a form of marriage that was unhealthy and debilitating to our children, to us, and to society. "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. . The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. 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. I could see that the leaders of The Order really did believe we had black ancestors, Ron explained, with Christy next to him, and his adult daughters Emily and Julie nearby. . I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. Accounts of clan babies being born with congenital defects and other problems abound, including dwarfism, albinism and children born minus fingernails or without genitals. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' 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. 'We do know there are biological hazards. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. I wonder aloud. Two of her sisters married their first cousinsmen with whom they share the same grandfather; the sons of their father's second wife, who is their mother's full sister. Some feature more expensive-looking gravestones, and include, beyond names and dates, terms of endearment such as: "Sweet baby girl," "Our son," and "Heaven's very special child." ("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. breeding really functional? She knows that they're. If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. . This denial is hollow considering the record. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . sw. htm>. I didnt even know the n-word was bad until I was like 15 or 16, she told Intelligence Report. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. In secret videotapes of Order church meetings aired on Escaping Polygamy, Pauls nephew Nick Young, speaking from a church lectern, identifies himself as a numbered man, number 72, to be precise. 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. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. And then there are the more livable genetic conditions. . ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Dawna asks me. Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. . Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. 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. As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. "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. Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. . ". "There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece," she continues. That's the big problem.' "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. . mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. 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.". "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . . David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. . "In May, the girl said she was belt-whipped by her father inside a Kingston-owned barn in Box Elder County for fleeing the marriage, and was abandoned in the home of another of John Daniel's wives. The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. Indeed, regardless of facing crushing federal government opposition to polygamous inbreeding, true-blue Mormons remain convinced that you can't keep a good man of God down To them, polygamy will be coming back some day, with sizable numbers of the faithful flock confident that its eugenic genetics will return by order of Joseph's Jesus. . ". 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 . . The company was founded in 2007 with an investment from family members. . Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. Obviously, we would love to.. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. "Every person carries some lethal genes. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. Desert Tech and its rifles have been featured on Fox News, Mythbusters, Daredevil and The Blacklist, among other TV shows. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. . And they are growing. "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. 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? If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". Lucky was the first to die in my generation. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. 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. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. 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.. Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. Child life is destroyed. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. Not only were there possibly too few fathers making it easier for defects to clump in the large interrelated kindred but succeeding generations of children from these isolated rural Mormon towns married within a few kindred as well. "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. "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. . The baby cemetery is a mess of overgrown weeds and dry, cracked dirt, home to hundreds of infant and toddler-size graves, not all of them marked. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. Those who did not make it into the UO were separated from their families, placed in patchwork homes of other UO "orphans," and told to repent. Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. . "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. . 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"). . . A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. The three marriages between second cousins have produced at least eight children afflicted with fumarase deficiency, according to a report in the May 2000 'Annals of Neurology' (based on the study conducted by the group led by Tarby and Aleck), interviews with doctors treating the disease and anecdotal evidence gathered from the community. D. Michael Quinn, former Brigham Young University professor, states, 'The Mormon practice of polygamy enabled men to marry daughters, nieces, cousins, granddaughters and former wives of other General Authorities.'. 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. . Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. . 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. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! . . . , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. . 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. That's still gross." 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 Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. . . "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). . Carolyn. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. . 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. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. . 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.' 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. and last updated 1:46 PM, Feb 24, 2021. Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal I am convinced they do. "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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. "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. A 1999 Salt Lake Tribune article mapped the Kingstons incestuous family tree, quoting one of Ortells 65 kids, ex-Order member Connie Rugg as saying, My father experimented [with] inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.. [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. . 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. . They can't do anything by themselves. If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. This is why those laws need to be enforced. 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. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. 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. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. 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