. . . . "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. According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. Branches of the polygamist mans family left out of the genealogy will change the incidence of common ancestors and potentially mask the true disease risk and incidence in the community. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. ". . 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. . 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. Fumarase deficiency, however sensationalized, is not the only genetic disorder found here. . "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. That's the big problem.' ". "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. . That's still gross." . . 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. . . the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. . Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. This denial is hollow considering the record. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. . Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. . "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. 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. ", ("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) Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". . . "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. But given that the Kingstons command an estimated 6,000 adherents, boast a business empire reportedly worth as much as $1 billion and have outlasted myriad bouts with law enforcement and the press, these dreams of world domination may be less delusional than they first seem. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. greatly increases, medical experts say. Intelligence Report then read the names of women believed to be his wives four in all. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. "Then, as generations of polygamous Kingston children have been taught, they demurred to questions about their father. 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. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? "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. soon . . . . If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene greatly increases, medical experts say. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. and is expected to answer questions . The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. 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.'. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). "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. . Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. . The letter asserts that one of the earliest members of the church was a Native American man and that the Co-op, as it is sometimes called, has been the victim of prejudice and harassment by Utahs majority religion (i.e., the LDS church) because of the formers progressive ideas. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. Elden continued the tradition. . The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. _____. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. They got married and contacted the . "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. 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. 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. . 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. "Fast-forward . What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. More recently, the Kingston-owned Washakie Renewable Energy (WRE) agreed to pay a $3 million fine after it was sued by the federal government for raking in tax credits for biofuels it never produced. 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 ! She also had a child with a clubfoot, and I think probably half of her children had respiratory problems when they were babies, because they were so related.". . 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. Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. Wyler says he once saw a fumarase deficiency child suffer a seizure while she was sitting with her mother and two other children also suffering from the disorder. The defect might be caused by genetics, infection, radiation, or drug exposure, or there might be no known reason. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' . Among the polygamous Kingstons, a number of children have been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two uteruses but no Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. . 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. . So, from the beginnings of Mormon Church history, we have LDS Elohim's hand of blessing placed upon the insidious institution of multi-wifing and forever-birthing. ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). . Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. 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. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . KUTV A large police presence swarmed a well-known polygamous family's property in South Salt Lake Wednesday.A Department of Justice Spokesman Peter Carr confirmed to KUTV that it is involved in . "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. . "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. . According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. . . . "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. "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. Obviously, we would love to.. According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. unavailable to researchers. sr. . "Community historian Ben Bistline said most of the community's 8,000 residents are in two major families descended from a handful of founders who settled there in the 1930s. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. Child life is destroyed. But now that it was appearing in two children in the same family was an indication it was being spread by a gene that was getting passed to the children by their parents. The knowledge that one's children are likely to be born with conditions like this one does not prevent FLDS couples from becoming pregnant; instead, they see it as a responsibility and blessing to have many children. . The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. A loyal Order member for years, he lost his faith and ended up leaving the Order over a curse of sorts, leveled at his family by LaDonna. The Order can rightly claim discrimination by mainstream Mormonism, but this is due to its embrace of polygamy, which the LDS church officially abandoned in 1890 in order for Utah to become a state. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' 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 . lucky All of this is to say that incest and inbreeding have been going on for so longand so prevalentlyin the polygamous sects along the Utah/Arizona border that these stories have been woven into the fiber of the communities. [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. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. 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. 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. "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. "Tarby and a team of doctors from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson began researching the disease and soon discovered that fumarase deficiency was occurring in at least two other families living in the same isolated community that practiced an unusual custom. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. He also married a woman descended from polygamy. She directs me to the houses she lived in after that: her stepdad Jim Jessop's home; then the rotten, roach-infested house she and her mother shared with nearly two dozen cousins and friends after being removed from Jim's following the Judgment. '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. Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. . "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. 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. . 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. 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