Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. The organized Ku Klux Klan movement saw a boost in its membership in 2017. . . "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. . As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. . . WRE has since become defunct. . Well, law enforcement often tends to look the other way in cases like polygamy, unless specific reports reach the agencies. . a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. . Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston -- John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell -- has been criminally charged with incest. All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. . . If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. '", (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) When asked to name his offspring by plural wife Mattingly Foster, Kingston came up with about five names before faltering, saying he was very nervous. After viewing a list of the children, he then attempted to name them but once more fell shortprompting the judge to supply the final child's name for him. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. 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 . "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. . "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. . . "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he 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. At least six of Merlin's incestuously conceived children in turn married half-siblings, couplings that subsequently produced children with various deformities, says Rowenna Erickson, an ex-member who left her polygamous husband. [37], The Kingston family and other members of the LDCC have faced two lawsuits, one in 2006[38] and another in 2022[39] accusing members and the organization as a whole of sexual abuses, including pedophilia and underaged marriages, within their membership. . . These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. The Kingston Clan, also known as The Order is a Mormon based group that is far more like an organized crime family and cult than religious organization. . . [7], Plural marriage is practiced by some members of the LDCJC and members make their own choice in who they marry. "The few dissenters in the community say the serious genetic problems that are beginning to surface are an indication that the closed FLDS society could eventually collapse. Articles of Incorporation of the Davis County Cooperative Society, 7 February 1941. 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. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. Upon Ortells death in 1987, leadership passed to his son Paul Elden Kingston. [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. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" . breeding really functional? . Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? "[44] Members claim they have been broadly and unfairly targeted by authorities for the negative actions of a small few. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. . . "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. . "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. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. . The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. . "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. A brief review of the accomplishments of the Co-op produces an impressive spreadsheet with assets in excess of $200 million. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. She suffered from. 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. [39], The organization continues to publicly denounce the practice of child marriage,[41][39] and maintains that marriages within the group are not coerced. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. . Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . 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. Sally Kingston, a wife of one of the brothers, and. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. 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.'. soon . "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. "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. . 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. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. [11] Some members had begun the practice of plural marriage years before the establishment of the cooperative. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. 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. Let's revisit the boastful words of Mormon Church Prophet John Taylor and Mormon Church Apostle Heber C. Kimball, both quoted earlier: -Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. A seventh son, Hyrum Dalton Kingston, is a polygamist but has not married incestuously, according to ex-members. "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. . 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. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. Believing that Elden received lost priesthood keys in 1935 also seems to contradict an 1837 scripture given to Joseph Smith stating that the priesthood had then (in 1837) been restored for the last time: For unto you, the Twelve, and those, the First Presidency, who are appointed with you to be your counselors and your leaders, is the power of this priesthood given, for the last days and for the last time, in the which is the dispensation of the fulness of times (D&C 112:30; see also D&C 27:13). Second, that prophet organizes his followers into missionary forces that dispense the truth to all the world, utilizing the priesthood to perform saving ordinances. . 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. . In fact more than half of today's Klans formed in the last three years. . ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. and Privacy Policy. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. . [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' . After two years of investigating, they did not find any welfare fraud. [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." Kimball. . refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. . . The group also teaches its members that only those with so-called pure blood will survive the apocalypse, according to the lawsuit. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. requote from Steve's excellent post ! FOX 13 spoke to the man who filed the IRS. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. "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. His father wrote: Brother Elden received a new covenant up on the top of the highest mountain that is east of Bountiful, Utah. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. Jacob O. Kingston, the company's CEO, pleaded guilty Thursday to 41 charges including money laundering, fraud, conspiracy and witness tampering and obstruction of justice, according to a court. [11] On February 7, 1941, the community founded by Elden Kingston officially declared themselves the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc. "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of the mainstream church, which abandoned the practice in 1890 and now strictly prohibits it. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Men make all decisions affecting her health. lost the priesthood which had come down to them from the Prophet Joseph Smith. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. . 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 ! When the Lord chose Brother Elden through which to send this new covenant, all other covenants were thereby dissolved. . Kingston members today generally claim that keys were received anew from heavenly messengers directly to Elden in 1935, although it appears he left no formal testimony to that effect. . . 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. . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. Click to reveal "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. While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. . [14] Some of their secrecy might be attributed to a fear of arrest for living in plural marriages, as had happened in 19591960 when being investigated by the Davis County Grand Jury, which some members claimed was organized by LDS Apostles Mark E. Peterson and Spencer W. [8][3] There are approximately 3,500 members,[9] some of whom are known to practice polygamy. Kingston Clan. _____. It is also a place of child abuse (court cases verify), neglected Sister Wives due to Polygamist practices (former members report this), Incest (court cases verify), and spiritual abuse (former . . "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. . In the 1940s, members of the Co-op wore blue bib overalls. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. In fact, the leaders of the Co-op just seem to be getting richer and the poor get essentially ignored. . . . . While engaged in that enterprise, he reportedly received an angelic visitation. Even the few highly educated people there . 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. Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. . Thanks for contacting us. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. Eldens father related that Elden told him that was ordained by J. Leslie Broadbent (Lorin Woolleys successor) in 1934, although precisely what that ordination represented is unclear. . . 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. . "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. The corporation produces goods and services that are used by members, and sold or traded to other cooperatives and to the public. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. J. Ortell Kingston aggressively pursued a financially-expansive agenda for the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc.[25] in the hopes of improving the financial condition of his followers. . July 1, 2020. Jeremy Kingston was sentenced to a year in prison in 2004 for taking LuAnn Kingston, his cousin and aunt, as his fourth wife in 1994; their relationship began when he was 24 and she was 15. . "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. . . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 75.119.192.80 There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. "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. Carolyn regularly worked at and tended . Bearing in mind I'm not American and have only a vague knowledge of Mormonism, a video came across my youtube from a former member of the Kingston clan/the order and wow is this terrifying. . 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. "Another of Rugg's full sisters, Andrea Johnson, died in 1992 of complications of pre-eclampsia, a condition of pregnancy that was not treated until after the young girl, swollen with toxic fluid, was rushed to the emergency unit at University Hospital. Surely, there were too many deaths. . And, "We cannot and will not condone or support anyone found to be engaged in any fraudulent behaviors. Tarby recounts a conversation he had with a member of the Barlow clan in which he tried to explain why so much fumarase deficiency was occurring among Mormon polygamists. [10], Over the decades, the Cooperative has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive system with assets once estimated at over $150 million. "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. They can't sit up. ", "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. 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. In addition, placing the law of consecration at the pinnacle of divine laws is inconsistent with scripture and restoration history. "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. [13][verification needed], The Latter Day Church of Christ is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a presence in Bountiful, Utah. "Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. . . [20] Long-time leader John Ortell Kingston lived in a small one-story clapboard house in Salt Lake City up until the time of his death in 1987. "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. . It may be that the Co-op is trying to help the poor in some anonymous way, but I have seen no evidence of it. It is true that the LDS Church has collected tithes and offerings in the millions of dollars over the past decades. . "[52][46][53] In a recent lawsuit, ex-members allege that the WRE case was an example of the concept of "bleeding the beast." Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . Children inherit disabling illnesses. [45] Members allege to have been targeted for audit at a rate over 9x the published IRS average for the general population, with no pattern of fraud being found outside of a couple of bad-actors. 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. We specifically read that the law of consecration is designed to administer to the poor and the needy (D&C 42:35). 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. 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. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. Kingston began preaching polygamy amongst fellow members of the LDS Church and distributing pamphlets and the book he had co-written, Laman Manasseh Victorious: A Message of Salvation and Redemption to His People Israel, First to Ephraim and Manasseh. Never miss a story. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. (KUTV) Weeks after a Kingston polygamist clan member was charged in the death of her child, former members of that group are speaking out about what they say is a much bigger problem.Carolyn . Men and boys wore blue coverall-type suits tied with strings; women and girls wore plain blue denim dresses. [in order] to reduce competition for wives. '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. . [7] Some members of the church are also believed to practice consanguineous marriage, or marriage to relatives within the group.

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