http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a302ff8194befb0 Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. [32] He was arrested and pleaded "no contest" to the charge of child abuse and served seven months in jail. . The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. 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. A seventh son, Hyrum Dalton Kingston, is a polygamist but has not married incestuously, according to ex-members. "Several Kingston offspring of incestuous couplings also have been born without fingernails, a disease that could be linked to a number of genetically caused abnormalities, although an exact diagnosis is impossible without closer study of medical records. 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. . [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". "He sent her to live in a coal yard with other polygamous wives and their many children in South Salt Lake, visiting her rarely and usually only to have sex, she testified. . "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. All went bareheaded and barefoot. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. During the 1920s, hundreds of dissenters from the LDS Church gathered into specific groups across the Wasatch Front. . 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. . 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. ", (Joseph Carroll, "One in Four Americans Think Most Mormons Endorse Polygamy; Only 2% Think Most Americans Support Polygamy," by Gallup News Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 7 September 2006, at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e). 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. 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. 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. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. '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. . As a symbol of their renunciation of worldly goods, the outer clothing contained no pockets in which possessions could be carried, although later an inside pocket was provided for the sanitary measure of carrying a handkerchief. [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. . 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. "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. . 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). Several charges of incest would eventually be leveled against various Kingston members. . [43] Responding to child marriage allegations in September 2022, the organization told The Guardian that "current policy prohibits plural marriage for members under 18" and "once an individual has made a decision on who to marry, members are encouraged to seek the blessing of their parents, family and/or church leaders, but to say that one individual chooses or heavily influences who will marry who is entirely inaccurate". "Dr. Tarby, who routinely treats fumarase deficiency children at a state-funded clinic in Flagstaff, says, 'They are funny-looking kids [with] biggish heads and coarse, thick features.' . . 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. 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. . . 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. "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. [6] Brooke Adams, Salt Lake Tribune, May 22, 2004. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' Jeffs is following a long-established practice -- started by Smith 170 years ago -- of excommunicating those who do not strictly adhere to church leaders' commands. "Our ancestral destiny meant we might give birth to sons who would die at maturity or daughters who would carry the trait to the next generation of sons. The accusers describe a patriarchal doctrine known as The Law of One Above Another, which they claim designates everyone a rank in the groups hierarchy. . This practice has been attributed to "endogamous preference and the small size of the groups population" according to recent research from the University of California. . . "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. Video unavailable This video. We specifically read that the law of consecration is designed to administer to the poor and the needy (D&C 42:35). But it must needs be done in mine own way; and behold this is the way that I, the Lord, have decreed to provide for my saints, that the poor shall be exalted, in that the rich are made low (D&C 104:16). From the article, "Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions": "[Mormon] Church founder, Joseph Smith, said he received a revelation from God, which is still canonized Mormon scripture as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132. . Brigham Young waited until 1868, twenty-one years after arriving in Utah, to actively promote it, and John Taylor ceased emphasizing it shortly after becoming President of the Church. . 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. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. It is true that the LDS Church has collected tithes and offerings in the millions of dollars over the past decades. Click to reveal [10], Over the decades, the Cooperative has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive system with assets once estimated at over $150 million. "There is too little empirical data of uncle-niece, half-brother/half-sister mating to draw firm conclusions about the IQ, survival rates, birth defects or longevity of their offspring, he says. . If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. . "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. "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. "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. . "'Incest as a policy or routine practice is rare,' says Melvin Williams, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and a leading expert in the study of kinship systems. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. . '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. . [10], According to his autobiography, Charles W. Kingston became disenchanted with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1926 because it abandoned plural marriage. [54], The Utah holdings of Davis County Cooperative members were once estimated at more than $200 million,[9] and were believed to include the following:[55], For the church formally established by Joseph Smith in 1830, see. ". If these couples are . . Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. 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. First, the truth and the priesthood keys are dispensed from heaven to a prophet on earth. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. "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. "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. . Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. Surely, there were too many deaths. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. [39], In 2016, the State of Utah with federal law enforcement raided various properties in connection with the Kingston family or Davis County Cooperative Society with the intention of finding welfare fraud. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. '", (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) . [7] Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS became members of the church and most retain dual membership in both organizations to this day. . . "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. [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. ", "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. 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. Sally Kingston, a wife of one of the brothers, and. . . . Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. . "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. 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. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. . "John and Charles' brother, Merlin Barnum Kingston, married and had children with four nieces and a half-sister, say ex-members, including one of his own daughters. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. "By the late 1990s, Tarby and his team had discovered fumarase deficiency was occurring in the greatest concentration in the world among the fundamentalist Mormon polygamists of northern Arizona and southern Utah. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. . "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. The current leader of the Kingston Clan is Paul Elden Kingston, and it is reported that he has up to 27 wives (including three half-sisters) and some wives have as many as 18 children. . She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. Articles of Incorporation of the Davis County Cooperative Society, 7 February 1941. It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . . A recently created critical website can be viewed atwww.kingstonclan.com. . . . Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. 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". It alleges sex trafficking, sexual battery and child abuse, and seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages. _____. '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. All went bareheaded and barefoot. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. Through diligent money management and hard work, the Davis County Cooperative Society became very financially successful. . By the time Joseph Smith Jessop died in September 1953, he already had 112 grandchildren, the majority of them directly descended from him and Yeates. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use . The Kingston Group is not affiliated withthe 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 is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexually assaulting girls he considered brides. Precisely where Elden obtained valid priesthood authority is a matter of dispute. . My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. . The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. As a symbol of their renunciation of worldly goods, the outer clothing contained no pockets in which possessions could be carried, although later an inside pocket was provided for the sanitary measure of carrying a handkerchief. . If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. WRE has since become defunct. While they affirm that they now carry the torch first lit by Joseph Smith, their agenda focuses only on plural marriage and their own brand of united order. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. . 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. . 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. People in plural marriages and held above those aren't. People who are members of the Kingston family by blood are held up higher than members of the Clan who are not also blood members of the Kingston family. I'd never heard of them, a polygamist, fundie cult where even 14 year olds could . 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. 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. "State investigators found no wrongdoing among members of the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. . . Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. 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. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. . Three others, including Grant, said they had to flee to escape such a fate. . ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. [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. "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. [13][verification needed], The Latter Day Church of Christ is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a presence in Bountiful, Utah. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. Mormons can now see why American citizens passed laws intended to stop polygamy, a relic of unwise prophecy, laws continuously disregarded in Utah, a state controlled by the Mormon Church, if they will only look. ", "Utah investigated the polygamous Kingston Group for welfare fraud 2 years ago. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. Performance & security by Cloudflare. 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. It is a common and intentional practice in the Order to require girls and women to submit sexually to their husbands even if the sexual submission is against their will because having children results in workers for the benefit of the Order, the lawsuit states. [28][29], During the first years of the Davis County Cooperative Society, Elden Kingston and his followers wore unique blue denim outer garments that led to people referring to them as "blue-coats." . "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. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . _____, --How "God's Genes" Do Ugly Things: The Biological Attack on "Modern"-day Followers of Mormonism's Originally-"Revealed" Doctrine of Polygamy. . ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. But it is unclear how such assets are exalting the poor or making the rich low. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . . "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . In fact, the leaders of the Co-op just seem to be getting richer and the poor get essentially ignored. "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. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. LDS scripture teaches that in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established (D&C 6:28; 2 Cor. Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. . [30] This practice lasted only a short time and was abandoned sometime before 1940. . "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. . 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 . . . Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. 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. There is no doubt about that at all. 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.
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