"This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. . ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. There are baby graves year that date back as earlier as the 1950s, potentially even earlier: many are unmarked. They can't sit up. In an office several hundred miles from where Young gave his speech, a 10-year . Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. "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. Ross LeBaron Jr. recently took to the Internet to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, as well as for LaVoy Finicum, the lone fatality in that ordeal. Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. . . Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal Black people supposedly suffered from multiple scriptural curses, from the mark of Cain and Noahs curse on Ham in the Old Testament to the racist tenets of early Mormonism that have since been renounced or abandoned by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS or Mormon church. . Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. . John Daniel Kingston seen here in 1999, pleading no contest to beating his 16-year-old daughter after she attempted to flee an arranged marriage with her uncle David, Kingstons brother. They got married and contacted the . . '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. 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. lucky . 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. So, from the beginnings of Mormon Church history, we have LDS Elohim's hand of blessing placed upon the insidious institution of multi-wifing and forever-birthing. 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.". Many children have had birth defects due to this inbreeding. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. The chickens are coming home to roost. In addition to this issue, since the rulers . Convinced they are breeding a pure white master race, they blame the mother if a deformed baby is born then preach she was unrighteous or unclean. . It gets pretty bleak when it gets that close.' The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. Ron says the cults justification for its racism goes back to early Mormon teachings about a war in heaven between the forces of Satan and those of Jesus. "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. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. That's still gross." . 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. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. 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. Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. . They have no movement. "They were called the Second Warders and we were called the First Warders; we weren't supposed to hang out with kids from the Centennial group because they were wicked for having left," she says. . 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. soon . . Before the call ended, Young insisted that he didnt admit to any kind of incest or anything. When Intelligence Report inquired if Young thought there was anything wrong with first cousins getting married, Young opined that such issues were between the individuals involved and God. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. . Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . . "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. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Fumarase deficiency, however sensationalized, is not the only genetic disorder found here. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. . "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. That's the big problem.' . Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' Pentecostal "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. . " 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. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. Child life is destroyed. Now, let's examine how "God-ordained" Mormon polygamy has wreaked unholy genetic havoc on its faithful followers: --Case Study on Polygamous Mormonism's Genetic Disease Striking Home: The Linda Walker Story. "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. 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. But The Orders critics say that cult members see nothing wrong with bilking the government, a time-honored tradition among FLDS sects, gleefully referred to as bleeding the beast.. 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. Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two The polygamous town facing genetic disaster Apr 03, 2020 In a remote region of the US, a town is struggling with a chilling health crisis caused by a recessive gene. . His brother, John Ortell Kingston, took over the leadership of The Order incorporated in the 1970s as the Latter Day Church of Christ. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. . Asked about these legends, Kingston spokesman Kent Johnson, explained via email that on occasion Order families have asked to spread the ashes of a child lost before or after birth at the Holy Spot. All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. . ". Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. "But this is a very unlikely scenario for FLDS faithful, who practice a religious doctrine that requires men to be strictly obedient to religious leaders and requires women to give birth to as many children as possible to increase the sect's numbers. . Yeah, I believe in it, he said. . . . As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. . . In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. "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. "While discussing health problems at a family gathering with some of my cousins wives, we discovered astonishingly that three out of four of us, all polygamy descendants, had borne a son with a clubfoot. 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). Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. . . . October 15, 2002: "There will be a viewing at father's house at 3p.m. 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.". . If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. This racist display was no one-off. These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. [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. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' We would cause harm, he confessed. "Every person carries some lethal genes. "Her half-brother is still married to another half-sister (whose parents also were half-sister and brother) and are still members of the Kingston's order. We cannot afford to neglect the possibility our ancestors practiced a form of marriage that was unhealthy and debilitating to our children, to us, and to society. . Something along the lines of, to build a superhuman, if you have four or five defects to get the one good one, its worth it, he recalled. . [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers. ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. "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. . 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? If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. . Men make all decisions affecting her health. . Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. 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. . "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. "'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. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. There have also been charges made that some plural wives and their children have . Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. . "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. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. They can't do anything by themselves. . Just under eight miles southeast of Short Creek is an area called Cane Beds, Arizona. Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. . "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." 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. So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. 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. "Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston--John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell--has been criminally charged with incest. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. "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. Which brings us back to the baby cemetery. A retired Arizona law enforcement officer, Browning is the president and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network and is in charge of security for the A&E show, where his wife Tawni works as the casting producer. Tarby recounts a conversation he had with a member of the Barlow clan in which he tried to explain why so much fumarase deficiency was occurring among Mormon polygamists. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. '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. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. 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. Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. . . What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. . There was also testimony, during one hearing, that someone in the Kingston clan wanted to blow up the courthouse. . . 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. 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 . "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. These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. . "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. "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. Let's revisit the boastful words of Mormon Church Prophet John Taylor and Mormon Church Apostle Heber C. 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