The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. . "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. sw. htm>. . 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. Men make all decisions affecting her health. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? "It is Moore-Emmett's belief that the LDS Church who started polygamy in this country should take responsibility and provide financial aid and other resources for those polygamous families who have been abused. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. 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). Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. They predict the scale of the problem will increase dramatically in the future. "'My guess is this man had used some of these inbreeding practices in his herd so he was probably in the camp that believed superior genetics could be propagated in a particular line,' Green says. ". . ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. . Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? 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. deficiency. . "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) ". when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. . 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. 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. 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. 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. 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. . "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. In an office several hundred miles from where Young gave his speech, a 10-year . . Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story, the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, an article published by the ABC news network, the fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints. Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. 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. All of this is to say that incest and inbreeding have been going on for so longand so prevalentlyin the polygamous sects along the Utah/Arizona border that these stories have been woven into the fiber of the communities. 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. . Because that one is going to be genius-level purity, and thats what The Order is looking for., Photo Credit: AP Images / Leah Hogsten, Pool (John Daniel Kingston); AP Images / Jeffrey D. Allred / Pool (Jeremy Kingston), SPLC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 63-0598743). This denial is hollow considering the record. I wonder aloud. Accounts of clan babies being born with congenital defects and other problems abound, including dwarfism, albinism and children born minus fingernails or without genitals. A simple urine test will reveal whether there is an excess of fumaric acid in the urine, if the other, more external symptoms aren't obvious enough. 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. Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". That leads to problems." Pentecostal 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. . "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. This is why those laws need to be enforced. Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. The 43-year-old Kingston took the witness stand for the prosecution about 2:40 p.m. and is expected to answer questions through Thursday. "Marriages among first and second cousins have been common for decades in the community, where religious doctrine requires men to have at least three wives to gain eternal salvation. "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. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. . Family members attribute the defects to the advanced . 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. They can't sit up. So what about polygamy? "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. One of her brothers married a woman whose grandmother is a sister to their father. 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. . "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. [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. Those who did not make it into the UO were separated from their families, placed in patchwork homes of other UO "orphans," and told to repent. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. 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. 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. . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. . 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. Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. "And my oldest daughter, she's 18 and she's dated a couple of my cousins, which makes them her second cousins, and we're like, Eww, that's gross.". The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. His brother, John Ortell Kingston, took over the leadership of The Order incorporated in the 1970s as the Latter Day Church of Christ. "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . 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. 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, . 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. 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. The stage was set for the appearance of the rare disease when their 12th child, Martha Jessop, married her second cousin, John Yeates Barlow, in 1923, according to LDS genealogy data and Colorado City historian Ben Bistline. Tucker recounted the clans version of the apocalypse, the End of the World War, a riff on a prophecy some ascribe to Joseph Smith, called The White Horse Prophecy. 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------.. . . . "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. . 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. "Many of the parents did not want to have to deal with some of those children. "Have you ever heard of the term The Turkey Baster?" I could see that the leaders of The Order really did believe we had black ancestors, Ron explained, with Christy next to him, and his adult daughters Emily and Julie nearby. Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. . The FLDS started out as a few fringe families in the late 1890s; as more seeking to follow the principal of plural marriage moved to the polygamous towns in the early-to-mid 20th century, the gene pool grew, but by the 90s, under the stricter control of prophet Rulon Jeffs (Warren's father), they were tightening up and selectively marrying and breeding in a sort of misfired eugenics experiment that ultimately yielded its own genetic disorder: fumarase deficiency (FD), otherwise known as Polygamist Down's. . "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. "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. That's the big problem.' sr. . . Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. . I am convinced they do. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. She knows that they're. . "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. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' "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. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. . Jeffs is following a long-established practice -- started by Smith 170 years ago -- of excommunicating those who do not strictly adhere to church leaders' commands. 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. "They were called the Second Warders and we were called the First Warders; we weren't supposed to hang out with kids from the Centennial group because they were wicked for having left," she says. It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. Two are nieces. "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. . 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.. Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. The records of the marriages sealed at the Nauvoo Temple before the general exodus to Utah in the 1840s, may be the most important ones of all; yet, these are . A simple urine test will reveal. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. Just under eight miles southeast of Short Creek is an area called Cane Beds, Arizona. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. . 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. . . Tarby. . Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. . . 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. 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. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. . It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. unavailable to researchers. Bad harm. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. "I'm like, Really? . Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . . . . "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. a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. The incest came to light after the girl tried to escape the arranged celestial marriage an illegal marriage, sans license. A retired Arizona law enforcement officer, Browning is the president and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network and is in charge of security for the A&E show, where his wife Tawni works as the casting producer. Various congenital and genital defects, dwarfism, fused limbs, fingernails lacking, mental illness and mental retardation, spina bifida, and microcephalous are some of the diseases and mutations. soon . Surely, there were too many deaths. "Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. 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. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. [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. . "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. '", (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) . "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. "There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece," she continues. "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. . The Twelve Apostles of Mormonism then acted to increase this familial relationship by marrying other relatives until in 1877, at the end of Brigham Youngs reign as Mormon Prophet and King, the polygamous hierarchy became l00% interrelated. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. "How do you keep track of that?" 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' "For Colorado City and Hildale to avoid more fumarase, polygamist leaders must use their authority to make sure that those potentially carrying the fumarase gene are not allowed to marry, says geneticist Aleck. . 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. . . "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. and is expected to answer questions . The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women-stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout Christendom, and which had been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious. . 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. In the revelation, the Lord commands him to take virgins 'an hundredfold in this world' for the purpose to 'multiply and replenish the Earth' so 'they may bear the souls of men.' And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' He was. It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. In it, black people come close to killing off the white race until they are countered by Native Americans, symbolized by a Red Horse, which gallops to the White Horses rescue. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. ". My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . . Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. Why is this? An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. ". . Appointments & Access. [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. Something along the lines of, to build a superhuman, if you have four or five defects to get the one good one, its worth it, he recalled. The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. Even the few highly educated people there . 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 . Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? "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. Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. "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. Ron Rohbock, 64, who was kicked out of the FLDS in 2002 after serving on church security for decades at Warren and Rulon Jeffs' side, has a different answer. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. (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. 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