Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. . Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. This racist display was no one-off. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' 'A lady comes in and helps her. . . ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "Victims suffer a range of symptoms, including severe epileptic seizures, inability to walk or even sit upright, severe speech impediments, failure to grow at a normal rate, and tragic physical deformities. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' 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. . Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' These conditions are disproportionately common, relative to the size of the general population, in Short Creek. . Mormons who believe that polygamy is a heaven-sent doctrine that will eventually be re-implemented on Earth by God (current Church claims of non-use notwithstanding), have a friend in go-to LDS Apostle, Bruce R. McConkie, who confidently declared: "Obviously, the holy practice [of polygamy] will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium. . "Researchers have identified a gene on the first chromosome that causes fumarase deficiency, but no test has been developed that could be used to identify individuals carrying the malady. . I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. Desert Tech and its rifles have been featured on Fox News, Mythbusters, Daredevil and The Blacklist, among other TV shows. soon . Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. In addition to this issue, since the rulers . The last infant grave marked in this cemetery is dated 2010; Warren issued an edict from prison banning sex in 2011, so few infants have been born since then (the few babies born each year are the product of institutionalized rape by cult-appointed seed bearers). A stern disciplinarian, who in later years looked and dressed like a mortician, Ortell made incest a tenet of the clans faith, informed by his work breeding Holstein cows on the Kingstons dairy farm. There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. "Until the test is available, Tarby says, the best prevention measure remains refraining from crossing Barlows, Jessops and their relations--who make up half the population of the polygamist enclave. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women-stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout Christendom, and which had been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious. The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. "A Secretive Refrain: . Just under eight miles southeast of Short Creek is an area called Cane Beds, Arizona. "It was . . Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? Jessica said she and other children of the Kingston clan a group also known as The Order, the Davis County Cooperative Society, and the Latter-Day Church of Christ dropped the N-bomb all the time, as did their parents. 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. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" . These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 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. 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. "In polygamy . Former clan prophet John Ortell Kingston, who died in 1987, paid the Medicaid bills for a child born with severe birth defects after Utah investigators linked the wealthy father of more than 65 children to the baby. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. If the FLDS faithful believed that Jeffs was relying on science to determine marriages rather than divine revelation from God, he could lose control of the church. . Bad harm. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. Its ominous-sounding moniker, The Order, is a reference to the United Order, a quasi-utopian society proposed by LDS-founder Joseph Smith, and practiced in some Mormon communities under the leadership of early church president Brigham Young. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' Surely, there were too many deaths. '90% of the community is related to one side or the other,' said Bistline, a former member of the sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Obsessed with the purity of their bloodline and empowered by a sense of entitlement on par with the divine right of kings, the Kingstons have made incest the cornerstone of a self-serving theology that loathes non whites, fosters homophobia and abhors government authority. Ron Rohbock, 64, who was kicked out of the FLDS in 2002 after serving on church security for decades at Warren and Rulon Jeffs' side, has a different answer. . But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. . . 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. . . 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. "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. 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. for Nathanael Allred's baby. All of this is to say that incest and inbreeding have been going on for so longand so prevalentlyin the polygamous sects along the Utah/Arizona border that these stories have been woven into the fiber of the communities. The 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. . ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. 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. Pentecostal . and councilmen.' 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. Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. He was. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. Once free of the cult, Lu Ann, Allison and other ex-Order members have had to unlearn the hatred that was drilled into their heads. . The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is a polygamous sect straddling the Utah and Arizona state lines; the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, are known collectively as Short Creek (pronounced "crick"). . 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.'. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. Mormons can now see why American citizens passed laws intended to stop polygamy, a relic of unwise prophecy, laws continuously disregarded in Utah, a state controlled by the Mormon Church, if they will only look. That's still gross." . The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. . In it, black people come close to killing off the white race until they are countered by Native Americans, symbolized by a Red Horse, which gallops to the White Horses rescue. Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. . . One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. . Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' . I wonder aloud. . ", -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. Tucker is another of Ortells many sons, though not from the favored wife, LaDonna. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. 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 . 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. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. "'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. . The records of the marriages sealed at the Nauvoo Temple before the general exodus to Utah in the 1840s, may be the most important ones of all; yet, these are . . . ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . 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. hello 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. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). . . 'We do know there are biological hazards. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. . . ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) "For more than 70 years, all marriages in the isolated towns have been arranged by the leader of the FLDS, a breakaway sect of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church. "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. . "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. . . "Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. . . [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. 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. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. "Tarby and a team of doctors from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson began researching the disease and soon discovered that fumarase deficiency was occurring in at least two other families living in the same isolated community that practiced an unusual custom. . " "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. . . If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. . According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. . 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. It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. . Children inherit disabling illnesses. Naming a father could expose the truth, unveil secrets of paternity and subject the clan to further scrutiny from those who don't approve of incest. . One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . 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