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. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. 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. As a symbol of their renunciation of worldly goods, the outer clothing contained no pockets in which possessions could be carried, although later an inside pocket was provided for the sanitary measure of carrying a handkerchief. This is why those laws need to be enforced. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. breeding really functional? "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. . Gallup Panel survey [conducted in August 2006] show[ed] that Americans are much more likely to believe most Mormons endorse practicing polygamy than to believe most Americans support it. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. [7] Members of the Latter Day Church of Christ are also members of the Davis County Cooperative Society (a separate organization and legal entity) which practices the law of consecration and United Order. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. . . "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. Article continues below advertisement For the sisters, escaping polygamy is really real. One outspoken Mormon matriarch who attended the same Sunday meeting for 50 years commented about the health of the polygamous descendants versus the monogamous descendants, 'You see it in the obituaries. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. Children inherit disabling illnesses. 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. "A Secretive Refrain: . And in 1999, David Ortell Kingston Jeremy Kingston's uncle was sentenced to the Utah State Prison for up to 10 years for committing incest with the 16-year-old niece who became his 15th wife. [9][34], Active members and a recent independent research article by a professor from Santa Clara University have attributed the practice to "endogamous preference and the small size of the groups population". "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. [39], In 2016, the State of Utah with federal law enforcement raided various properties in connection with the Kingston family or Davis County Cooperative Society with the intention of finding welfare fraud. I am convinced they do. "Fast-forward . . . My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. Duringa 2020 trialfor a California businessman accused of carrying out a nearly $500 million biodiesel fraud scheme with a member of the Kingston Group, attorneys for the businessman called the Kingstons an incestuous polygamous group that is always scheming to defraud the US government in what the group calls bleeding the beast., A spokesman for the group, Kent Johnson, called those allegations categorically false.. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . . Video unavailable This video. Splinter Group: Latter Day Church of Christ (Davis County - MRM "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. Elden passed away from cancer in 1948 and was succeeded by his brother John Ortell Kingston (commonly known as Ortell). . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. From the previously-cited article, "Understanding Polygamy": "The polygamous Kingston family professes that their genealogy line traces back to Jesus Christ, and so they possess holy blood. "Medical experts say the incidence of the disorder will increase because the FLDS community is refusing to accept recommendations to reduce the likelihood of producing babies with fumarase deficiency. From the "Phoenix New Timms" article, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children": "Colorado City resident Isaac Wyler says FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs is trying to create the 'perfect race.'. The accusers describe a patriarchal doctrine known as The Law of One Above Another, which they claim designates everyone a rank in the groups hierarchy. "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. Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. . . lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . But it is unclear how such assets are exalting the poor or making the rich low. . [5] Michael Janofsky, Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy, New York Times, February 27, 2003, Late EditionFinal Section A-1. Sounds like I left a few out, he said after being reminded of how many children he had fathered in that family.[6]. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . . 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) . 11, p. 128, ". . "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. ". 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. Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. [47][48] The remainder of the transactions (over 94%) were to entities associated with Lev Derman, who prosecutors allege was the mastermind of the scheme. Disturbing photos of the modern-day Ku Klux Klan - CBS News . 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. . From the article, "Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions": "[Mormon] Church founder, Joseph Smith, said he received a revelation from God, which is still canonized Mormon scripture as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132. The Kingston Clan is a polygamous group with an estimated 10,500 members. [39] In 2007, the group told Deseret News that it was encouraging its members to wait until their partners were 18 to marry them,[41][43] with one member reporting that "we do encourage them to be 18 now". "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. . "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. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. If these couples are . Child life is destroyed. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. . provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . "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.' . . Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. All went bareheaded and barefoot. . "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. 1,000 GOAL. . 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. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. . Lucky was the first to die in my generation. ", (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 samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. [10], Over the decades, the Cooperative has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive system with assets once estimated at over $150 million. . 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. Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. 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. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. [21] Over the past 25 years, many members have become college-educated and live in middle-to-upper-middle-class homes throughout their communities. . Inside the Kingston Kingdom: Former employee reveals clan's secrets Like any fundamentalist Mormon sect, the Kingston Clan is very hierarchal. [17] That same year, Ardous Kingston Gustafson, a mother of four and founding Co-op member, was jailed on Christmas Eve when she could not produce membership lists that were to be used to target plural families for further arrest and harassment. "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. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. [1], The Church . Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. . Among the participants was Charles W. Kingston. . Eldens solo experience of receiving the priesthood keys and authority is truly singular and contrasts the pattern previously given by the Lord for important priesthood conferrals that require more than one witness. Precisely where Elden obtained valid priesthood authority is a matter of dispute. http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09- http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html, http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html. . "Every person carries some lethal genes. . "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. . The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. . The group has drawn legal attention before. Escaping polygamy and the Kingston clan: Whistleblower Mary Nelson on . 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. One brother, John Daniel Kingston, was taken to court for neglecting this children. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' Investigate the Kingston Clan: wealthiest polygamous cult in the U.S From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. . 'We do know there are biological hazards. (The Church lost its authority to give covenants.) restricted in some polygamous sects, including FLDS groups in Colorado City, Arizona; Hildale, Utah; and West Texas, that force some of the young males to leave the communities . 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. 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. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. . . . The Prophet Josephs priorities of missionary work, temple ordinances, proxy work for the dead, and feeding the poor appear to have been lost somewhere. . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. Meanwhile, as Mormons wait patiently and faithfully for multi-wifery's official return, the words of their founding Church fathers sound praise to polygamy past, present and future: --The Mormon God's Declaration of Righteous Genetic Combinations: Monogamy is a Christian Blight on Humanity, While Polygamy is the Lord's Way to Produce Fresh, Virile Men; Good-Lookin' Women; and Super Strong Stock to Carry Civilization Into Eternity. One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures.
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