"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. 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. One ex-Order member, who asked to be referred to as Scott, instead of his real name for fear of retribution by clan members, said hatred of gays was big in the Kingston clan, with the word f----- in frequent use. . . '", (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) Elden continued the tradition. . and cousins. "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. The baby cemetery is a mess of overgrown weeds and dry, cracked dirt, home to hundreds of infant and toddler-size graves, not all of them marked. ("Doctrine & Covenants," Section 132, verses 55, 62-63), "Joseph Smith also testified an angel with a sword came to him many times and commanded him to practice polygamy or else he would lose his life. "'I tried to get people to come, but nobody would listen,' says the mother, who left the group and her marriage after her sons were diagnosed with dwarfism. In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . "John Ortell Kingston was the first Kingston to experiment with incest, marrying and bearing children with two half-sisters and two nieces, according to numerous ex-members of the clan. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. "There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece," she continues. he says. From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 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. . Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. LeBaron Jr. has been accused by three of his own sons, who purport to have DNA evidence obtained by saliva samples, of fathering four children with his own biological daughter. Additionally, ex-Order members tell of a reputed church prophecy of an End of the World War, an apocalyptic vision that foresees a bloody race war with the Kingstons as the ultimate victors, chosen by their Heavenly Father to rule the world for a millennium. '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. [Andrea] Moore-Emmett [author of 'God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped'] contends that [in polygamy] incest, statutory rape, torture, physical abuse, forced marriages, and trafficking of girls is rampant. . . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. 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. Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. . The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. D. Michael Quinn, former Brigham Young University professor, states, 'The Mormon practice of polygamy enabled men to marry daughters, nieces, cousins, granddaughters and former wives of other General Authorities.'. 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. "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. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. Jonathan Turner, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, hypothesized exactly that, in an article published by the ABC news network in 2008. . Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. Home births and the frequency of miscarriages and still-borns among the Kingstons have led to macabre legends of dead infants buried in Kingston back yards. "Ex-members' claims of incest are bolstered by court records claiming John Ortell 'failed either to support or acknowledge' three children by his niece, (Susan) Mary Gustafson. 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. . "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. 11, p. 128, ". Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. "In polygamy . "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. "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. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. "While discussing health problems at a family gathering with some of my cousins wives, we discovered astonishingly that three out of four of us, all polygamy descendants, had borne a son with a clubfoot. According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' . "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. "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . . . And they are growing. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. lucky His brother, John Ortell Kingston, took over the leadership of The Order incorporated in the 1970s as the Latter Day Church of Christ. . The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? 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. 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. Indeed, regardless of facing crushing federal government opposition to polygamous inbreeding, true-blue Mormons remain convinced that you can't keep a good man of God down To them, polygamy will be coming back some day, with sizable numbers of the faithful flock confident that its eugenic genetics will return by order of Joseph's Jesus. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. . When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. . Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' . . . 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. This denial is hollow considering the record. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. . 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. . "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.' . Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. According to church lore, The Order came into existence when founder Charles Elden Kingston saw Jesus in the mountains above the familys settlement in Bountiful, Utah, inspiring him to create the DCCS in 1935. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. And another one of her sisters married one of my half-brothers, but we have the same blood and genetics because our moms are full sisters." Almost everyone here is some variation of cousin, and, until Warren was locked up and decided to put a hold on all marriages, most men and women were paired together in order to preserve certain esteemed bloodlines. Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. . While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. . . He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. "Researchers have identified a gene on the first chromosome that causes fumarase deficiency, but no test has been developed that could be used to identify individuals carrying the malady. . sw. htm>. . People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' "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. This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. 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. In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints elders, who control the community, have labored to keep the public from finding out why the disorder is manifesting. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. . "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. sr. . . ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. 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. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. . Kingston -- the late enigmatic leader and church prophet who built the 1,500-member Kingston clan into a multimillion-dollar business empire while allowing many of his purported 13 wives and dozens of children to survive on government assistance. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. "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. . Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. . . . Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. . Structural Birth Defects. "It is important that Mormons fight the tendency to discount history and the actions of their leaders in favor of a faith- promoting history while neglecting important facts. . At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. . 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. '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. 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. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. . Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. A 1999 Salt Lake Tribune article mapped the Kingstons incestuous family tree, quoting one of Ortells 65 kids, ex-Order member Connie Rugg as saying, My father experimented [with] inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.. They are coming out of polygamous communities proliferating in Utah because Mormons are unable to face their history or follow sound marriage and childbirth practices. In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. . --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. 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. ozpoof WREs influence earned special scrutiny in February 2016 after the IRS, the EPA and other government agencies raided owner Jacob Kingstons house as well as The Orders bank and other locations, carting away bankers box after bankers box of records. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. 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. He prepared urine samples and sent them to the University of Colorado Science Center's Dr. Steve Goodman, a professor of pediatrics who runs a laboratory that detects rare genetic diseases. Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. 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. "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? . ", ("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) If these couples are . . 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. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. At the time this inbreeding took place these prophets preached and practiced modern eugenic science, the science of controlling the traits of future populations through selective breeding for idealized traits like blond hair, blue eyes and tall stature. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. . Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. 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. . 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. "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. 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? Why is this? "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. The two were playmates when they were boys. Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. . Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. Many of the souls interred here lived not longer than a day, some just two days, two weeks, or two years. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. "'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. . "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. . "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. . He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . Some outside the church have referred to the group as "the Kingston Clan" or the "Kingston Cult," although leaders believe that these terms are "inaccurate and derogatory." . . 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 . Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. Matt Browning seems less sure. 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