. "Fast-forward . "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. "Several Kingston offspring of incestuous couplings also have been born without fingernails, a disease that could be linked to a number of genetically caused abnormalities, although an exact diagnosis is impossible without closer study of medical records. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . 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.. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. . . "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. I'm driving around Short Creek with Alyssawho is in Boise, Idaho, where she is a college sophomorepiped in through the bluetooth-enabled speakerphone in the rental car I'd picked in Las Vegas the previous night. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "'Incest as a policy or routine practice is rare,' says Melvin Williams, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and a leading expert in the study of kinship systems. . 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? They have no movement. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. According to historian Brian Hales Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto, Brother Elden, as he was also known, had five wives and 17 children. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' Certainly if MORmON Jesus had done this, we would hear all about it from the LDS as *proof* that God was doing his modern work via MORmONISM, but alas there is no such manifestation ! . . 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. . Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase. the FLDS has the highest known rate of a rare genetic disorder called "fumarase deficiency" that causes severe birth defects. . 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. 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. Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. 'The downside is that if you don't start with good genetics, and if there is baggage in the genes of the individual, inbreeding will uncover that baggage. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. 6.3M views 6 years ago Profiles by VICE S1 E23 Although the mainstream Mormon church abandoned polygamy over 100 years ago, many splinter groups across Utah still practice plural marriage. . It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. 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, . And during a recent picnic to honor the birthday of patriarch John Ortell Kingston, Order families descended on a Salt Lake Valley park, where hundreds of children of all ages blanketed the parks green expanse. This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. In the polygamist cult of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, cousins were encouraged to marry in order to preserve certain bloodlines. These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. '", (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) . For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. 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. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. 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 . These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. 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. . On the show's pilot, the trio bring a burly security guard along as they help a woman sneak into her own home to grab belongings for herself and her two young daughters. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. . This seemed to apply in my own kindred because those of us who left Mormonism and married outsiders are less riddled with the deleterious genetic legacy than relatives who married within the ancestral Mormon gene pool. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. . When this got around to his dad, his father packed up Snows belongings and left them in the room of a hotel owned by The Order. And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. "Her book . Pentecostal "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. There are also accounts of dead babies being buried at the Holy Spot, a tree-shrouded patch of land across the street from a grade school in Bountiful, just north of Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, Mary Ann Kingston, 22, has brought a $110 million civil suit against 242 Order members and 97 companies they operate, claiming that they share collective responsibility for abuse she. Young told Intelligence Report that his company has sold weapons, with the approval of the U.S. State Department, to governments in Europe and the Middle East, Saudi Arabia being one. 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. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. on the history of the fundamentalist community. It's the kids who are disproportionately handicapped as compared to the demographics of any other comparably small town. 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. "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. They got married and contacted the . . The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. 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. . . a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. Dawna's husband is a brother to her older sister's husband, "but they're only half brothers, so him and I aren't blood-related at all, because he was from the youngest mother, which had no relation to us other than marriage, and then my sister was married to the older brother and his mom and my grandmother were full sisters.". . . ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) requote from Steve's excellent post ! If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. . and is expected to answer questions . "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. [in order] to reduce competition for wives. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. 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. . . 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. . "'It would have been unusual if he wasn't using artificial insemination in his herd, and by virtue of that, was probably using semen from some bulls that had been inbred,' says Dennis Green, a professor of beef cattle genetics at Colorado State University. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. . The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. . . A simple urine test will reveal. "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. . . This denial is hollow considering the record. 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. Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. We would cause harm, he confessed. At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. "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. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. "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. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. . They steer clear of banks,. Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer, which produces sniper rifles and so-called bullpup rifles, The latter, unlike conventional magazine-fed rifles, have shorter barrels, with the guns action located behind the trigger. 'We do know there are biological hazards. But now that it was appearing in two children in the same family was an indication it was being spread by a gene that was getting passed to the children by their parents. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. [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. . . This is why those laws need to be enforced. During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series "Escaping Polygamy," remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a . Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. 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. 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' . on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. Johnson maintained that The Orders vast array of businesses which includes a grocery store, pawn shops, a garbage disposal business, an insurance company, a politically-influential biofuels plant, and a high-end firearms manufacturer employs individuals of various racial and ethnic minorities. They offer no support, no exit route and no programs for the people trapped inside polygamy endeavoring to escape these closed polygamous communities or compounds. 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 . But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. WREs influence earned special scrutiny in February 2016 after the IRS, the EPA and other government agencies raided owner Jacob Kingstons house as well as The Orders bank and other locations, carting away bankers box after bankers box of records. . . "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. ("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. . "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? "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. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. 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