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. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. Two are nieces. 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. "Wyler said it's all part of the community's religious system. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. SALT LAKE CITY (CN) Survivors of Utah's notorious Kingston clan filed a lawsuit seeking punitive damages against 22 Kingston members on Wednesday for sex trafficking minors born into the organization, sexual battery, child abuse and more. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. . I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. "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. . "It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are" before getting married or pregnant, she adds. Sex. "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. 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. The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. . . died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. They can't sit up. Also known as the LDCJC, the Kingston Clan, and The Order, it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. Known variously as Brother Paul, the leader, and the man on the watchtower by Order members, this unremarkable, balding middle-aged man reportedly has 27 wives and over 300 children. . 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. This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. "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. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. Dawna asks me. And they are growing. "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. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. I hate to talk like this about my own genealogy,' Wyler says, 'but, literally, they are keeping all the breeding stock--the women, the [strictly faithful] men--and weeding out the disobedient men. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. 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. The chickens are coming home to roost. These conditions are disproportionately common, relative to the size of the general population, in Short Creek. Yeah, I believe in it, he said. "But this is a very unlikely scenario for FLDS faithful, who practice a religious doctrine that requires men to be strictly obedient to religious leaders and requires women to give birth to as many children as possible to increase the sect's numbers. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. "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. . 'They are totally helpless,' he says. 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. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. . According to historian Brian Hales Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto, Brother Elden, as he was also known, had five wives and 17 children. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. . Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. That will open up for The Order to rise up and take over the world, Ron said. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. [i]n a secret church ceremony. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced . Tarby. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. . Through his brother LyleBishop of the FLDS and mouthpiece for his imprisoned brotherJeffs enacted a Judgment wherein FLDS members were asked a series of bizarre personal questions; their answers were judged, and the most righteous were welcomed into the United Order of FLDS elite. "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 vaginal or bowel opening. This is all compounded by the split between the FLDS and an offshoot group of polygamists that moved to nearby Centennial Park following a disagreement over how the community should be governed, and by whom). "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . 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. . "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. . " . 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. But in a 2News . Those affected by the genetic disorder suffer grand mal seizures and often have facial feature deformities and severe mental retardation, with IQs as low as 25. . . . At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. It is bordered to the north by a well-maintained lot where there sits a stately red brick home with UEP (United Effort Plan, the church trust which is now controlled by the state of Utah in the aftermath of Jeffs' conviction) spelled out in white brick on its south-facing side. "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. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . He also married a woman descended from polygamy. Tucker is another of Ortells many sons, though not from the favored wife, LaDonna. 'A lady comes in and helps her. Structural Birth Defects. 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. '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. But The Orders critics say that cult members see nothing wrong with bilking the government, a time-honored tradition among FLDS sects, gleefully referred to as bleeding the beast.. That's still gross." Former clan prophet John Ortell Kingston, who died in 1987, paid the Medicaid bills for a child born with severe birth defects after Utah investigators linked the wealthy father of more than 65 children to the baby. _____. . Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. . it is the only popular religion there,", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Deseret News," 6 August 1862, "This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans, . --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. . 'The downside is that if you don't start with good genetics, and if there is baggage in the genes of the individual, inbreeding will uncover that baggage. refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. 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 . A simple urine test will reveal. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. _____. . Somehow LaDonnas curse was transferred to the Tuckers via Christy, Rons wife, because, Christys mom left The Order and married an Irishman, before leaving him and returning to the fold. Her younger sister Emily thought it was a joke, too, until one day another Order kid told her, We cant play with you because the Tuckers are n------.. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. "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. Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. Or leave. "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. ". . 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. Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. Another is a first cousin. "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.' . Elden had predicted that he would be resurrected from the dead, so clan members kept his body on ice for three days, to no avail. The brother missionaries have been in the habit of picking out the prettiest women for themselves before they get here, and bringing on the ugly ones for us; hereafter you have to bring them all here before taking any of them, and let us all have a fair shake. John Daniel Kingston seen here in 1999, pleading no contest to beating his 16-year-old daughter after she attempted to flee an arranged marriage with her uncle David, Kingstons brother. A stern disciplinarian, who in later years looked and dressed like a mortician, Ortell made incest a tenet of the clans faith, informed by his work breeding Holstein cows on the Kingstons dairy farm. . ", ("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) . 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. But I do have children with other women., Asked if two women named were in fact his first cousins, Young paused, finally replying, I guess Im curious as to what youre trying to get at here.. . If the FLDS faithful believed that Jeffs was relying on science to determine marriages rather than divine revelation from God, he could lose control of the church. . 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. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. 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 do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. . "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. . . There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. Snow began dating men when he was 22. 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 . "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. . . Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. 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. . Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' "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. 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. 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. Asked about these legends, Kingston spokesman Kent Johnson, explained via email that on occasion Order families have asked to spread the ashes of a child lost before or after birth at the Holy Spot. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. . 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. sw. htm>. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". . "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 adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. greatly increases, medical experts say. . Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. . Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. Okay, I have one legal wife, he said. . People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. Well, my sister had a little baby with a cleft lip; it was her first child and it had a cleft lip and cleft palate, because they were both Jessops, and Jessops are carriers of that gene. . . Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. The two were playmates when they were boys. 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. If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". . Control of The Order then passed to Ortells well-educated son Paul Kingston, one of several lawyers in a cult whose members dress normally and try not to draw attention to themselves. Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. Ron Tucker went so far as to call his former brethren white supremacists, and ten times more racist than your run-of-the-mill skinhead. . 11, p. 128, ". 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. . "You had a fairly diverse pool to start with, so only if that went on for a long time within this same population would you see real effects," he told ABC. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. . Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). . [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. During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series "Escaping Polygamy," remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a . 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. . . "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. ", (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) Mormons who believe that polygamy is a heaven-sent doctrine that will eventually be re-implemented on Earth by God (current Church claims of non-use notwithstanding), have a friend in go-to LDS Apostle, Bruce R. McConkie, who confidently declared: "Obviously, the holy practice [of polygamy] will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. 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. deficiency. 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. Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. . Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' . So what about polygamy? Ross LeBaron Jr. recently took to the Internet to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, as well as for LaVoy Finicum, the lone fatality in that ordeal. . . "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. . In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. . She talked about how you cant associate with black people or anybody of a different race., Based on available evidence, including the accounts of numerous former Order members, the SPLC has designated The Order as a hate group under the category of `general hate.'. 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. 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