This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. 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? . But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. . The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. 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. Since most Kingston children are born in homes under the scrutiny of trusted and secretive family midwives or clan leaders, documentation of medical abnormalities is rare, but not unprecedented. '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. Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. This is why those laws need to be enforced. . "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. . . 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. "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. "It's like any inbred disorder," Tarby says. Polygamy would have afforded the opportunity of producing from that consecrated fatherhood and motherhood the improved type of man the world needs to reveal the highest possibilities of the race, that the day of the super man might come, and with him come also the redemption and betterment of the race.'. 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. . I owe my children and all children who risk becoming the next unwitting victims of this tragic genetic legacy the best information regarding the prevention of this lethal family inheritance that I can find. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. . 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. . "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. 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.. 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. Carolyn Yvonne Kingston was born in 1938 in Elmo, Utah, to Charles Elden Kingston, and his first wife Ethel Gustafson, so she was the daughter of the first prophet of the Kingston Clan. [Mormon] [h]istorian B. H. Roberts, notes an eugenic attitude regarding polygamy: "'It was in the name of a divinely-ordered species of eugenics that Latter-day Saints accepted the revelation which included a plurality of wives. . Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. . . . "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "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. Black blood was the worst thing you can have, Jessica said, particularly since the Kingstons consider themselves to be the whitest of the white, descended directly from Jesus Christ and King David, the Middle Eastern origins of both men notwithstanding. . Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. The adult residents of Short Creek todayboth those still in the FLDS and those who have left the cultare mostly able-bodied, seemingly healthy individuals. . The lawyers words call to mind another heavenly curse, described in 2 Nephi, Chapter 5 of the Book of Mormon, where God caused a skin of blackness to come upon a group called the Lamanites, supposedly ancestors of Native Americans. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) . "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. . They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. . "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. and councilmen.' . Fumarase deficiency (FD) is an autosomal metabolic recessive disorder, meaning it is necessary for an individual with the condition to receive the mutant allele from both parents. . . Sex. 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. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. These can include: Cleft lip or cleft palate; Heart defects, such as missing or misshaped valves; Abnormal limbs, such as a clubfoot; Neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, and problems related to the growth and development of the . Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. . . . Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? . "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. . "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm, http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html, http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html, http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723. 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. . he says. . . "The leaders must also understand the ethical considerations of continuing behavior, he says, that is bringing children into the world who suffer tragic deformities. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. "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. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. . The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. _____, --How "God's Genes" Do Ugly Things: The Biological Attack on "Modern"-day Followers of Mormonism's Originally-"Revealed" Doctrine of Polygamy. LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. Many of the souls interred here lived not longer than a day, some just two days, two weeks, or two years. 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). "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. 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. Children inherit disabling illnesses. refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. . _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. "FLDS marriages, Wyler and other community experts say, are an extension of a breeding program that began with Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in the 1830s. 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. The chickens are coming home to roost. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. . "Her book . . Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. . The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. "'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. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? 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. Appointments & Access. . "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. "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. 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 a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . 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. . . She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. . 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. _____. . When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. . "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. 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. . So what about polygamy? Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. . In a portion of Warren Jeffs' Priesthood Record a mostly dry document that details his every move and meeting one entry, a written transcription of an announcement made by Warren at lunch with his late father's family, stands out as particularly creepy. . "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. . Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. . Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. This racist display was no one-off. 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. "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. . "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. 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. Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two The polygamous town facing genetic disaster Apr 03, 2020 In a remote region of the US, a town is struggling with a chilling health crisis caused by a recessive gene. . "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' sr. . . Which brings us back to the baby cemetery. . . "Many of the parents did not want to have to deal with some of those children. '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. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. One man, who asks to remain nameless to protect his and his family's privacy, describes a lifetime of round-the-clock care and too-frequent hospital visits for his five sons. 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. 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. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. "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. The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. Desert Tech and its rifles have been featured on Fox News, Mythbusters, Daredevil and The Blacklist, among other TV shows. . One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' That will open up for The Order to rise up and take over the world, Ron said. 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. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. 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. _____. Now, let's examine how "God-ordained" Mormon polygamy has wreaked unholy genetic havoc on its faithful followers: --Case Study on Polygamous Mormonism's Genetic Disease Striking Home: The Linda Walker Story. Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. . Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' . . . . Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. . But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. . At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. the FLDS has the highest known rate of a rare genetic disorder called "fumarase deficiency" that causes severe birth defects. materials or even attempted to focus team and society have a kingston clan member was charged with birth defects increase becomes apparent similarities than. '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. "Nearly everyone in Colorado City, Arizona, and the adjacent town of Hildale, Utah, was a member of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that practices polygamy and had long encouraged multiple marriages between close relatives. The company was founded in 2007 with an investment from family members. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. The two were playmates when they were boys. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. . [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. 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. 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. "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. From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. . 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 do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. . ozpoof 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. . 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, . thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. I wonder aloud. ("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. . There is no sign. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. 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. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. "Then, as generations of polygamous Kingston children have been taught, they demurred to questions about their father. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. . She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . 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. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. . . 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. . I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. ", (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) "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. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Some read simply, "Baby Keate," or "Baby Bateman," or "Baby Cooke," with holes where numeric date tiles might otherwise be placed. . Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. . . 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