. . 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, . If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. Jacob Kingston pleaded guilty to 41 charges, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aiding/assistance in filing a false claim, money laundering and obstruction. "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. . "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. And, "We cannot and will not condone or support anyone found to be engaged in any fraudulent behaviors. They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. 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. We've received your submission. 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. "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. "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.' "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. . Derman was found guilty of masterminding the scheme in March 2020. 'A lady comes in and helps her. [1], The Church . [40] In 2009, the then-Attorney General of Utah, Mark Shurtleff, claimed that child marriages within polygamous societies in Utah, such as the Latter Day Church of Christ, had "effectively stopped". 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. . Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. [The Lord] had to institute another New and Everlasting Covenant which he gave to another 25 year old boy on the highest mountain east of Bountiful on the first day of the year, 1935. . Some Kingston followers might justify their financial conglomerate by comparing it to the wealthy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ("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. Two weeks after is excommunication, Kingston had a dream wherein he believed he was visited by Jesus Christ and God the Father. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. And the Genealogy Department advises genealogists to follow only their direct line; in this instance meaning only the wife who is their mother, not other wives of their father. Members today wear normal modern clothing, although they are encouraged to be modest and keep a high standard of dress. The Latter Day Church of Christ,[1] is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. "In May, the girl said she was belt-whipped by her father inside a Kingston-owned barn in Box Elder County for fleeing the marriage, and was abandoned in the home of another of John Daniel's wives. 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. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. "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. Could my childish intuition that the adults and doctors lips were sealed against my questions involve family secrets; secrets relatives took to their graves rather than betray? unavailable to researchers. "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. She suffered from. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. . . 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 . "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. "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. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. "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. . 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.'. "[52][46][53] In a recent lawsuit, ex-members allege that the WRE case was an example of the concept of "bleeding the beast." Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. . . . . While Charles W. Kingston was the first to oppose the Church, the primary mover in the Kingston Group was his son Elden. 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. Charles Zitting (one of Lorin C. Woolleys High Priest Apostles) introduced Kingston to plural marriage, causing Kingston to be cut off from the Church in 1929. We dont expect any of the claims to prevail in a court of law.. . . 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. . In recent years, former members have lobbied for law enforcement to take action against the sect. . . Supposedly, these sacrifices are part of the united order. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Reportedly, Paul and his brother each have dozens of wives and hundreds of children. They can't do anything by themselves. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. . A Kingston Family Primer. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. [43] Responding to child marriage allegations in September 2022, the organization told The Guardian that "current policy prohibits plural marriage for members under 18" and "once an individual has made a decision on who to marry, members are encouraged to seek the blessing of their parents, family and/or church leaders, but to say that one individual chooses or heavily influences who will marry who is entirely inaccurate". 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. "The disease is not widely known about even in Colorado City, a place where even normally public events such as marriages are conducted in secret. The clan, known privately as the Order, runs what prosecutors believe is one of the largest organized-crime operations in Utah, overseeing its far-flung empire from a string of secret locations . 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' 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.'. Arrow Real Estate and Property Compliance, Fountain of Youth Health and Athletic Club. But it is unclear how such assets are exalting the poor or making the rich low. If these couples are . . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest American hate group, and while the number of active KKK chapters declined in 2016, members of the Klan are trying to regain ground. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. Kingston was able to name only nine of his thirteen children by a second woman, Rachael Ann Kingston. However, the law of consecration has a purpose beyond self-sacrifice. . The group has drawn legal attention before. The Kingston Group is believed to have a few thousand members, mostly in Utah and Idaho. [8], In the late 1990s, three members of the LDCJC faced scrutiny for entering into incestuous relationships. _____. . As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. . "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. "There is no doubt in the mind of any expert interviewed by 'New Times' that the practice of polygamy combined with inbreeding has fostered the spread of fumarase deficiency. . . The groups, whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, are offshoots of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [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". Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. "'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. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. The scheme included filing for $512 million in federal renewable-fuel tax credits from 2010 to 2016 through a company named Washakie Renewable Energy LLC. "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. 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[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." 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). You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. . The corporation produces goods and services that are used by members, and sold or traded to other cooperatives and to the public. . KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" [10], Over the decades, the Cooperative has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive system with assets once estimated at over $150 million. A small portion of the funds (less than 6%) were also used to purchase legitimate goods and services from businesses who provided them in "good faith". . The current leader of the Kingston Clan is Paul Elden Kingston, and it is reported that he has up to 27 wives (including three half-sisters) and some wives have as many as 18 children. They own many businesses and have ties with hundreds of businesses here in Utah and our neighboring states. . But women who are disobedient and fail to bear children including because they miscarry face ostracism, the lawsuit claims. . . . Click to reveal WRE has since become defunct. : About half of the 8,000 people living in the towns are blood relatives of two of the founding families that settled in the 1930s on the desolate high desert plateau against the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. "[2], According to a 2011 document prepared by the attorneys general of the states of Utah and Arizona, the church describes itself as emphasizing family values, education, self-sufficiency, and the belief that every child is a priceless blessing. 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. It is the power of God through the law or covenant of consecration given to Brother Elden in 1935. . . . 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. . Lucky was the first to die in my generation. The State of Utah stated: "It was a specific investigation that we were approached by [federal law enforcement] to participate in." These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. "The genetic defect has been traced back to one of the community's founding patriarchs, the late Joseph Smith Jessop, and the first of his plural wives, according to medical literature, the Mormon Church genealogy database and residents of the community familiar with Jessop and Barlow family histories. . "During this early period, polygamy was practiced secretly by the Mormon leadership, men who covertly preached and expanded polygamy while publicly deceiving the general Mormon population about the practice. The Kingston Group is not affiliated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based on the Utah-Arizona line that is run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, who. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. The Kingston Clan is a polygamous group with an estimated 10,500 members. Through diligent money management and hard work, the Davis County Cooperative Society became very financially successful. 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. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' [41][42] Despite this, the latest suit alleges marriages as young as 16 within the Latter Day Church of Christ have continued. a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. . . 'They are totally helpless,' he says. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. . . 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. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. 11, p. 128, ". "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. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. . One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' For a more detailed view the the Kingston's historysee Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2006). . "Every person carries some lethal genes. The Kingston Clan is where Jessica, Andrea, and Shanell escaped over a decade ago. . The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. That leads to problems." If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. It is true that the LDS Church has collected tithes and offerings in the millions of dollars over the past decades. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." [49] As part of the plea deal and restitution, the company forfeits rights to a number of assets including their bio-fuel plant in Plymouth, Utah. . 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. 13:1). v. Kingston, et al., Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, UT (2022)", "Fallout from Washakie fraud could cost polygamous Kingston Group members their businesses and homes", https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/07/29/fallout-washakie-fraud/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Latter_Day_Church_of_Christ&oldid=1137075084, Jason Kingston allegedly had a relationship with his half-sister Andrea Johnson, who became pregnant in 1992. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. . ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. BungieBungie.netBungieBungie . Elden received the covenant of consecration and also the plan of temporal salvation.[2]. Why is this? 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. 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. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They can't sit up. A member of a polygamist clan today was convicted of incest with his 16-year-old niece, who testified that she had been forced to become his 15th wife. Wyler says he once saw a fumarase deficiency child suffer a seizure while she was sitting with her mother and two other children also suffering from the disorder. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. [46], In July 2019, Jacob Kingston, Isaiah Kingston, and two others pled guilty to participating in a fraud scheme masterminded by Lev Derman, a non-member and Armenian national. Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. . If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. However, Grant claims she endured years of sexual abuse by a half-brother as a child. . Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. In the 1940s, members of the Co-op wore blue bib overalls. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. "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. Accordingly, Elden became the first prophet of the Kingston Group and established the Davis County Cooperative Society. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. Never miss a story. David Kingston is alleged to have married his 16-year-old niece Mary Ann Nelson, who attempted to run away but was apprehended and beaten by her father, John Daniel Kingston. "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. [6] Brooke Adams, Salt Lake Tribune, May 22, 2004. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. (The Church lost its authority to give covenants.) We recall that Joseph Smith made no effort to implement the law of consecration while in Nauvoo (see D&C 105:34). "15 years ago, a strange-looking child suffering from severe physical maladies and acute retardation was brought into the office of [pedatric neurologist] Dr. Theodore Tarby. . 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. "My dad had a thing that was supposed to shoot radio waves or something like that, that . 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. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. It didn't find any. [7], Plural marriage is practiced by some members of the LDCJC and members make their own choice in who they marry. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. . "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. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . Daughters of men in the Co-op would be married off at young ages. Some 42 different Klan groups were active in 22 . "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. 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. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. . . "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center.

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