[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. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. Even the few highly educated people there . [13][verification needed], The Latter Day Church of Christ is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a presence in Bountiful, Utah. During the 1940s, Ortell worked on a dairy farm owned by the Co-op at Woodscross, Davis County, Utah, where he reportedly developed theories on genetics, theories he later decided could be used to purify his own family pedigree. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. His father wrote: Brother Elden received a new covenant up on the top of the highest mountain that is east of Bountiful, Utah. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . . Duringa 2020 trialfor a California businessman accused of carrying out a nearly $500 million biodiesel fraud scheme with a member of the Kingston Group, attorneys for the businessman called the Kingstons an incestuous polygamous group that is always scheming to defraud the US government in what the group calls bleeding the beast., A spokesman for the group, Kent Johnson, called those allegations categorically false.. . "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. The word dispensation refers to two processes. . "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. ", "Utah investigated the polygamous Kingston Group for welfare fraud 2 years ago. . Accordingly, Elden became the first prophet of the Kingston Group and established the Davis County Cooperative Society. "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. In fact more than half of today's Klans formed in the last three years. . "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. . . "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. Those unions fell within Utahs consanguinity restrictions and, if discovered, would be considered incestuous under the laws of the state. "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . 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. I am convinced they do. . "Experts say the number of children afflicted in the FLDS community is expected to steadily increase as a result of decades of inbreeding between two of the polygamous sect's founding families--the Barlows and the Jessops. Cases of fumarase deficiency have shown up in the FLDS communities in Colorado City and Hildale, and doctors believe that the incidence of the condition in these communities will increase in coming generations. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. [30] This practice lasted only a short time and was abandoned sometime before 1940. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Performance & security by Cloudflare. BungieBungie.netBungieBungie . Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. . [27] It is not affiliated with the mainstream LDS Church. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. . . [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . From the "Phoenix New Timms" article, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children": "Colorado City resident Isaac Wyler says FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs is trying to create the 'perfect race.'. . Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. . "Dr. Vinodh Narayanan, a pediatric neurologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, says he is seeking funding to develop a test that would allow public health officials to collect voluntary blood samples from as many FLDS members as possible. . Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. "'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. IF polygamy really is justified in increased breeding, and since MORmON Jesus did institute such a plan according to MORmON history at one time, then how come MORmON god does not follow through and have a lot more females born in such marriages as would be required mathematically to make His "Wyler said it's all part of the community's religious system. . Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. The complaint against the Kingston Group also known as the Order was filed in Salt Lake City last week by 10 people, including Amanda Rae Grant, who starred in the A&E docu-series Escaping Polygamy.. Elden theorized that living the law of consecration was still required, and he set forth to establish his own united order organization. Early persecution seems to have conditioned Kingston leaders to maintain the utmost secrecy, but third generation officers seem to use ignorance as a tool to enhance control of their followers, especially of women. . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. 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. . 'A lady comes in and helps her. . This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. . Much of what we have reviewed appears frivolous and unfounded, Gustafson said in an emailed statement. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. . "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. While they affirm that they now carry the torch first lit by Joseph Smith, their agenda focuses only on plural marriage and their own brand of united order. . _____. . "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. 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. "Every person carries some lethal genes. . 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. [4] Andrea Moore-Emmett, Gods Brothel (San Francisco: Pince-Nez, 2004), 88. Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. In the l950s, research doctors thought we were one of the few families in the world with this form of nephritis, known as Alports syndrome. and councilmen.' . According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. The two Kingston brothers and their business partner, Lev Dermen, are in jail awaiting trial, scheduled to start in July and last six weeks. Readily accepted as a problem among mothers past the age of 35, it is rarely discussed as a problem when fathers are over 35, let alone 80. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' However, the law of consecration has a purpose beyond self-sacrifice. The trial of the man, David Ortell Kingston . [11] Some members had begun the practice of plural marriage years before the establishment of the cooperative. 'I really doubt that if we could tell them, you know, "This male has the condition and this female has the condition; you shouldn't mate," that wouldn't stop them,' he said. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. 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). 13:1). For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. Interview with the owner of Desert Tech: The son of Paul's sister Rachel herself a daughter of Ortell and LaDonna Kingston [Nick] Young was the only current member of the Kingston clan, out of the many contacted for this story, who consented to a live, on-the-record interview. The Kingstons represent an intriguing branch on the Mormon fundamentalist tree. When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. . Several people also wonder if parts of 'Escaping Polygamy' is dramatized. . . They own many businesses and have ties with hundreds of businesses here in Utah and our neighboring states. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. Kingston was able to name only nine of his thirteen children by a second woman, Rachael Ann Kingston. . . The Kingston Group stopped proselytizing new converts when the cooperative became successful, and today they perform no missionary work of any kind. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. . . . Unfortunately, there are also numerous reports of members who lived in squalor in order to advance the monetary gains of the Co-op. 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, . 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' . . "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. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. "With a well-thought-out plan," Hope After Polygamy explains, "she was successful; the judge granted her emancipation when she was 17 years old. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. . We dont expect any of the claims to prevail in a court of law.. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. . . Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' . 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. 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. "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. Not one defect, but many. Two weeks after is excommunication, Kingston had a dream wherein he believed he was visited by Jesus Christ and God the Father. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' For 5 episodes that aired on Viewpoint on Mormonism between 9/14-18, 2020, click these: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Interview with Doris Hanson Part 1 Part 2 By Eric Johnson Summary. . soon . . [39] In 2007, the group told Deseret News that it was encouraging its members to wait until their partners were 18 to marry them,[41][43] with one member reporting that "we do encourage them to be 18 now". That means the number of cases likely will grow. The organized Ku Klux Klan movement saw a boost in its membership in 2017. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. . ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. [17] That same year, Ardous Kingston Gustafson, a mother of four and founding Co-op member, was jailed on Christmas Eve when she could not produce membership lists that were to be used to target plural families for further arrest and harassment. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. Kimball. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. We've received your submission. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . . "It was . "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. However, Grant claims she endured years of sexual abuse by a half-brother as a child. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' 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. It didn't find any. . 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. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. According to Kingston teachings, this scripture should not be taken too literally, and all of the efforts commenced through Joseph Smith came to a dead halt in 1934, thereby necessitating Elden Kingston to initiate a new dispensation. LuAnn Kingston, a former member of the clan who in 1995 at age fifteen was forced to marry her first cousin, shared: The joke used to be that if you werent married by 17, you were an old maid.[5], Within the Kingston Group, the primary polygamists are the immediate Kingston family and heirs. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. 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All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. . [5] Michael Janofsky, Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy, New York Times, February 27, 2003, Late EditionFinal Section A-1. "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. . "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. . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . [41][42] Despite this, the latest suit alleges marriages as young as 16 within the Latter Day Church of Christ have continued. "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. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. [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." Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. . . Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, 2023 Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, Joseph Smith Restores the Practice of Plural Marriage, Plural Marriage Commanded, Permitted, and Not Permitted, 1920sPolygamists Coalesce into an Organization, Lorin C. Woolley and His Council of Seven Friends, Independent Polygamists and Fundamentalists. I'd never heard of them, a polygamist, fundie cult where even 14 year olds could . "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. . 'They are totally helpless,' he says. . [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. It gets pretty bleak when it gets that close.' . John Gustafson, a representative of the Davis County Cooperative Society, an affiliate of the Kingston Group, disputed the lawsuits claims. 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.'. A brief review of the accomplishments of the Co-op produces an impressive spreadsheet with assets in excess of $200 million. ", (Linda Walker, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics," under "Science as Culture," originally written in the fall of 1991, updated in the summer of 1999, citations included, at: http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html)

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