[W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . 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.. She also had a child with a clubfoot, and I think probably half of her children had respiratory problems when they were babies, because they were so related.". She talked about how you cant associate with black people or anybody of a different race., Based on available evidence, including the accounts of numerous former Order members, the SPLC has designated The Order as a hate group under the category of `general hate.'. Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. . Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. 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. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. . 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. 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. . 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. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. 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. Some read simply, "Baby Keate," or "Baby Bateman," or "Baby Cooke," with holes where numeric date tiles might otherwise be placed. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. . 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. . 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. Elden had predicted that he would be resurrected from the dead, so clan members kept his body on ice for three days, to no avail. 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. 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. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . ". . 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. and is expected to answer questions . There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. . He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. Fumarase deficiency, however sensationalized, is not the only genetic disorder found here. In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. And, because this cult is so tight-knit and averse to strangers, the gene pool is rather limited. "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. Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. "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. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. . greatly increases, medical experts say. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. A simple urine test will reveal. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. He orchestrated all unions within the cult, which was maintained with classic mind control techniques, corporal punishment, fasting and bizarre dietary practices. ozpoof . . Lucky was the first to die in my generation. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. FOX 13 . My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. '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. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. 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.. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced . 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 Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. . 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. . he says. The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. . Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. . . In secret videotapes of Order church meetings aired on Escaping Polygamy, Pauls nephew Nick Young, speaking from a church lectern, identifies himself as a numbered man, number 72, to be precise. . ". The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. . Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. Many of the souls interred here lived not longer than a day, some just two days, two weeks, or two years. . 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. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. . 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' . The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. If these couples are . "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. 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. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. 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. Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. . . Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. . "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. [T]he one-wife system not only degenerates the human family, both physically and intellectually, but it is entirely incompatible with philosophical notions of immortality; it is a lure to temptation, and has always proved a curse to a people. . The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. In an office several hundred miles from where Young gave his speech, a 10-year . [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. It's the kids who are disproportionately handicapped as compared to the demographics of any other comparably small town. "Fast-forward . "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. Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. "Like his father-in-law, John Y. Barlow became one of the towering patriarchs of the fundamentalist Mormon community and served as FLDS prophet from 1935 until his death in 1949. . 'We do know there are biological hazards. There lives Ross LeBaron Jr., a descendant of another polygamous sect (separate from the FLDS but quite similar in practice) called the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. . 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. 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. "It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are" before getting married or pregnant, she adds. 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. 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. . 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. "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . Jonathan Turner, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, hypothesized exactly that, in an article published by the ABC news network in 2008. 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. . "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. 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. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. "Genetics of Incest: Pre-eclampsia is a condition that can be traced genetically from one generation to the next and is prevalent among some Kingstons, Rugg says. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. "Among the polygamous Kingstons, a number of children have been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two uteruses but no vaginal or bowel opening. The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. 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. 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. The incest came to light after the girl tried to escape the arranged celestial marriage an illegal marriage, sans license. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. 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. . That's the big problem.' "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . "Every person carries some lethal genes. . . Which brings us back to the baby cemetery. "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. "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. 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. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. 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. More recently, the Kingston-owned Washakie Renewable Energy (WRE) agreed to pay a $3 million fine after it was sued by the federal government for raking in tax credits for biofuels it never produced. "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. "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. and councilmen.' What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. (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. 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. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. "How do you keep track of that?" "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. Control of The Order then passed to Ortells well-educated son Paul Kingston, one of several lawyers in a cult whose members dress normally and try not to draw attention to themselves. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. In 2003, Order member Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking his first cousin, 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston, as his fourth wife. . It is bordered to the north by a well-maintained lot where there sits a stately red brick home with UEP (United Effort Plan, the church trust which is now controlled by the state of Utah in the aftermath of Jeffs' conviction) spelled out in white brick on its south-facing side. Young denied that The Order was racist or taught any form of bigotry, and said he had people of all races working for him. . . on the flat hay fields that stretch from the edge of Woods Cross to the crusty shores of the Great Salt Lake, that John Ortell Kingston studied the genetics of in-line breeding. This racist display was no one-off. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. I hate to talk like this about my own genealogy,' Wyler says, 'but, literally, they are keeping all the breeding stock--the women, the [strictly faithful] men--and weeding out the disobedient men. They predict the scale of the problem will increase dramatically in the future. 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, . That leads to problems." "John Ortell Kingston was the first Kingston to experiment with incest, marrying and bearing children with two half-sisters and two nieces, according to numerous ex-members of the clan. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . His eldest died six years ago at 10 years old, he says, and another died in infancy, leaving behind two remaining brothers from a set of spontaneous identical triplets. . But by 2006, Dr. Theodore Tarby, of Arizona, had discovered at least 20 more children living with the condition in Short Creek, all within just blocks of each other. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. 'A lady comes in and helps her. 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 bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring. 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. 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. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. _____. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. . Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? . . . . But in a 2News . "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. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. . "'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. "You have to either accept" the responsibility of caring for so many children with major healthcare needs "or let it destroy you," says this man, whose wife recently suffered a stroke. Another is a first cousin. "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. 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. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". 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. This is why those laws need to be enforced. "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. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. . Pentecostal . . . . The fact that most of the people in the Kingston clan were born into the lifestyle is very key to group think because this is all they know, and some may never question the beliefs even when they age because it has been their whole world all their life. "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. 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). ". . Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. . Martha's husband was "Uncle" Fred Jessop, longtime Bishop to the FLDS people, who died in 2005 at 94, after being dragged from state to state by Warren Jeffs in what many ex-members believe was a transparent scheme of murder-by-stress: Dragging around a physically ailing, elderly man in need of constant medication is one way to kill a person without committing any outright murderous act, they say. . . . . There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. It gets pretty bleak when it gets that close.' There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. . thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. Carolyn. Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. There is no doubt about that at all. And they are growing. . ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah, an Incorporated Utah Non-profit Corporation Has a Mission to Promote Joyful Living, Rational Think)ing, and Responsible Behavior," July 2005, at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html) . . Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. Another significant group is the Kingston Clan, also known as "The Order" and officially the Latter Day Church of Christ, with about 2000 members scattered throughout Utah. 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. 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. "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. . While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. . "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. "'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. So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. . . "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. 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