. 'A lady comes in and helps her. . . "With a well-thought-out plan," Hope After Polygamy explains, "she was successful; the judge granted her emancipation when she was 17 years old. 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. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. They operate in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. 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. breeding really functional? But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. Eldens solo experience of receiving the priesthood keys and authority is truly singular and contrasts the pattern previously given by the Lord for important priesthood conferrals that require more than one witness. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. [3] Charles Elden Kingston discourse, 1940 New Years Meeting, 8:40 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., 11; emphasis in original. One Former LDS Fundamentalist Polygamist group understands - XMission 5, p. 22. 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. [i]n a secret church ceremony. . Kingston clan: Unlikely whistleblower helps uncover alleged half In fact, the leaders of the Co-op just seem to be getting richer and the poor get essentially ignored. . the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. During the 1940s, Ortell worked on a dairy farm owned by the Co-op at Woodscross, Davis County, Utah, where he reportedly developed theories on genetics, theories he later decided could be used to purify his own family pedigree. '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. Who is the insider on Escaping Polygamy? - Monsters and Critics ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). . These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. . "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. They own many businesses and have ties with hundreds of businesses here in Utah and our neighboring states. . on the history of the fundamentalist community. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. . . "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. 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? . "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . . --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. . "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. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . 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 true that the LDS Church has collected tithes and offerings in the millions of dollars over the past decades. Why is this? . Daughters of men in the Co-op would be married off at young ages. The suit includes ten former members alleging the organization used marriages to "unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes". . . . . '", (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) Since most Kingston children are born in homes under the scrutiny of trusted and secretive family midwives or clan leaders, documentation of medical abnormalities is rare, but not unprecedented. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. . my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? . "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. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? 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 ! "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. . 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' . Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. "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. "Medical experts say the incidence of the disorder will increase because the FLDS community is refusing to accept recommendations to reduce the likelihood of producing babies with fumarase deficiency. 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. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. "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. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. he says. One of the most controversial splinter groups of Mormonism, the Latter Day Church of Christ, has been led by members of the Kingston family since it was founded in 1935. A member of a polygamist clan today was convicted of incest with his 16-year-old niece, who testified that she had been forced to become his 15th wife. [5] Michael Janofsky, Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy, New York Times, February 27, 2003, Late EditionFinal Section A-1. [17] That same year, Ardous Kingston Gustafson, a mother of four and founding Co-op member, was jailed on Christmas Eve when she could not produce membership lists that were to be used to target plural families for further arrest and harassment. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . [15][16] The Grand Jury was described as "The polygamist hunting Davis County Grand Jury" by the Ogden Standard-Examiner in 1959. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. Social Endgame Clan of Active Adults I Raid Teachings I Pvp Players "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. "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. . 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. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. "Like his father-in-law, John Y. Barlow became one of the towering patriarchs of the fundamentalist Mormon community and served as FLDS prophet from 1935 until his death in 1949. . . This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' "For more than 70 years, all marriages in the isolated towns have been arranged by the leader of the FLDS, a breakaway sect of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church. hello The Bear Clan's Kevin Walker told Global News on Wednesday that while the organization is still actively hitting Winnipeg streets, the way they operate has changed due to COVID-19. ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . . thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). . In the 1940s and 50s, Kingston followers designed and wore unique outer garments, the wearing of which led other people to refer to them as blue-coats. Men and boys wore a blue coverall-type suit tied with strings, while women and girls wore plain blue dresses. The corporation produces goods and services that are used by members, and sold or traded to other cooperatives and to the public. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. [39] The 2022 complaint was filed by attorney, Roger Hoole,[39] an attorney known for representing ex-members of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. "Fast-forward . . Escaping Polygamy - Wikipedia 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. 13:1). People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' ", "C250 - Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee", "DCCS Self-Sustaining Policy, Contributions to the Community", "The Polygamist Accused of Scamming the U.S. Out of $500 Million", "Former WRE CEO testifies about money paid to DCCS Entities", "Jury Finds Los Angeles Businessman Guilty in $1 Billion Biodiesel Tax Fraud Scheme", "Polygamists Admit $512 Million Fraud for U.S. Fuel-Tax Credits", "CEO And CFO Of Utah Biodiesel Company And California Businessman Charged In $500 Million Fuel Tax Credit Scheme", "WRE Defendants arrested and awaiting trial", "Trial postponed for last defendant in fraud case involving members of the Kingston polygamous family", "Complaint and Jury Demand, Grant, et al. 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. 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. 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. [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. "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. Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . . "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. The groups, whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, are offshoots of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 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. 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. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' . 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. . mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. . Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. So many young people.'. . . . "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. "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. 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. 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. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. "Some genes linked to conditions like microcephaly and dwarfism are 'autosomal recessive,' and are found among the 22-linked pairs of chromosomes that do not include the X and Y sex chromosomes, says Lynn Jorde of the University of Utah's Eccles Human Genetics Institute, a leading genetics research center. 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One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. 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 . Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. . . and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. ", (Linda Walker, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics," under "Science as Culture," originally written in the fall of 1991, updated in the summer of 1999, citations included, at: http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html) Although the official stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is against polygamy, several of the women's stories reveal that LDS leaders dismiss the deviant sects and blame the women who come to them for help. 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. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. Men make all decisions affecting her health. "Finally exposed in the news, the facts of life inside [the Mormon offshoot Kingston clan's] religious/cult compound are stunning Mormons, Utahans, the nation, and the world. [11] On February 7, 1941, the community founded by Elden Kingston officially declared themselves the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc. Sally Kingston, a wife of one of the brothers, and. "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. . He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. . Some 42 different Klan groups were active in 22 . The trial of the man, David Ortell Kingston . However, Grant claims she endured years of sexual abuse by a half-brother as a child. . [39], The organization continues to publicly denounce the practice of child marriage,[41][39] and maintains that marriages within the group are not coerced. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. While engaged in that enterprise, he reportedly received an angelic visitation. As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. . [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. [8], In the late 1990s, three members of the LDCJC faced scrutiny for entering into incestuous relationships. . Carolyn regularly worked at and tended . Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. Kingston Clan : r/FundieSnarkUncensored - reddit . Elden clearly claimed to hold the priesthood keys, saying, I have those keys of power.[3]. . The complaint against the Kingston Group also known as the Order was filed in Salt Lake City last week by 10 people, including Amanda Rae Grant, who starred in the A&E docu-series Escaping Polygamy.. . . ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. [39] In 2007, the group told Deseret News that it was encouraging its members to wait until their partners were 18 to marry them,[41][43] with one member reporting that "we do encourage them to be 18 now". I'd never heard of them, a polygamist, fundie cult where even 14 year olds could . "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. Among the participants was Charles W. Kingston. Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. . . 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. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. . The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. . "My dad had a thing that was supposed to shoot radio waves or something like that, that . _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. ", ("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) These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. . They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. BungieBungie.netBungieBungie . . The lone man suing said three Order men raped him when he was 16 or 17 and that when he left the group and announced he was gay, was tracked down and severely beaten by a group of boys acting at the direction of the Order, the lawsuit alleges. 13, p. 195, "We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they (non-Mormons) envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. Children are allowed to attend public school and many go on to college. . . 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. . . Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? KKK Groups Still Active in These States in 2017 - US News & World Report . . Jacob Kingston pleaded guilty to 41 charges, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aiding/assistance in filing a false claim, money laundering and obstruction. Arrow Real Estate and Property Compliance, Fountain of Youth Health and Athletic Club. "[52][46][53] In a recent lawsuit, ex-members allege that the WRE case was an example of the concept of "bleeding the beast." WRE has since become defunct. Is 'Escaping Polygamy' Real? Find out If The Lifetime - Distractify 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. [19] For many years, members of the Co-operative lived in poor conditions, and those in need had no legal way to apply for assistance. 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. Where Are Escaping Polygamy Cast Members Now? - The Cinemaholic Members today wear normal modern clothing, although they are encouraged to be modest and keep a high standard of dress. This story has been shared 112,868 times. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. . 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. The Latter Day Church of Christ,[1] is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. . 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. This means all other covenants were of no effect through which source they can. In the 1940s, members of the Co-op wore blue bib overalls. That leads to problems." Surely, there were too many deaths. unavailable to researchers. "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. _____. Legitimate businesses, including those in the Cooperative, argued that Jacob hid the scheme from business partners as well as Co-op leadership. Police raid Utah properties of well-known polygamist Kingston Clan Feds move to seize homes and businesses from polygamous Kingston Group LDS scripture teaches that in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established (D&C 6:28; 2 Cor. But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. "Two years later, a pair of geneticists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., flew to Utah where they hoped to stage a seminar for Kingston family members about the dangers of incest and birth defects, and, presumably, gain permission to study the clan. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' They have no movement. David Kingston is alleged to have married his 16-year-old niece Mary Ann Nelson, who attempted to run away but was apprehended and beaten by her father, John Daniel Kingston. The Kingston family owns an enormous amount of businesses in the Utah area which employ Kingston Clan members, and Merlin Kingston was no exception to this. . . The accusers also claim that the group arranged child marriages so that girls would become pregnant and beholden to their husbands and the religious sect. "The leaders must also understand the ethical considerations of continuing behavior, he says, that is bringing children into the world who suffer tragic deformities. Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, 2023 Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, Joseph Smith Restores the Practice of Plural Marriage, Plural Marriage Commanded, Permitted, and Not Permitted, 1920sPolygamists Coalesce into an Organization, Lorin C. Woolley and His Council of Seven Friends, Independent Polygamists and Fundamentalists. For a more detailed view the the Kingston's historysee Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2006). . . . present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. . [22][23] Currently the group claims that although different skillsets bring different financial outcomes, there is no homelessness within the DCCS, and internal programs exist for those experiencing financial poverty.[2].