"Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. Indeed, the group was founded during the Great Depression as a communal religious organization where members dedicated their earnings and possessions to building the Kingdom of God on Earth, as one church document attests. That will open up for The Order to rise up and take over the world, Ron said. . The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. "A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border, according to a doctor who has treated many of the children. "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. Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? 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. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' "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. At the lot's northwest corner, a metal gatethe kind you might find on a cattle ranchhangs open on its hinge. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. Why is this? Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. . 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 . . "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. . The Order can rightly claim discrimination by mainstream Mormonism, but this is due to its embrace of polygamy, which the LDS church officially abandoned in 1890 in order for Utah to become a state. A simple urine test will reveal whether there is an excess of fumaric acid in the urine, if the other, more external symptoms aren't obvious enough. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. . Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. 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. Or leave. . These conditions are disproportionately common, relative to the size of the general population, in Short Creek. . The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. This racist display was no one-off. sw. htm>. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. "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. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. 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. . . Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . 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. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . _____. David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. Dawna asks me. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" This denial is hollow considering the record. "'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. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. 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. The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. . 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. So many young people.'. Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. And another one of her sisters married one of my half-brothers, but we have the same blood and genetics because our moms are full sisters." "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. . "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. 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.. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) 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. Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. . The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. . [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. . . "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. . [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. One of her brothers married a woman whose grandmother is a sister to their father. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. "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. 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. . . The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. . 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. 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. . 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. 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. . There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. . "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. 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.". . 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. From the article, "Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions": "[Mormon] Church founder, Joseph Smith, said he received a revelation from God, which is still canonized Mormon scripture as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . "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. . "A Secretive Refrain: . "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' 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. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. . 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. "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. There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. 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. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . . Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. 3, p. 291, "I have noticed that a man who has but one wife, and is inclined to that doctrine, soon begins to wither and dry up, while a man who goes into plurality [of wives] looks fresh, young, and sprightly. . . . 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. The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. . and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. . . . "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. . . 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. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. 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. Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' "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. "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. Well, my sister had a little baby with a cleft lip; it was her first child and it had a cleft lip and cleft palate, because they were both Jessops, and Jessops are carriers of that gene. . 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. . 'A lady comes in and helps her. "Dr. Tarby, who routinely treats fumarase deficiency children at a state-funded clinic in Flagstaff, says, 'They are funny-looking kids [with] biggish heads and coarse, thick features.' --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. Former Order members tell of babies being born nearly every week in the church. ", ("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) . Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. . "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? . " . 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). . "Every person carries some lethal genes. 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. "The disease is not widely known about even in Colorado City, a place where even normally public events such as marriages are conducted in secret. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. Children inherit disabling illnesses. . . 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. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. Still more, rather cryptically, feature child-size palm and footprints. 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. 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. They got married and contacted the . "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. ("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. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. The 43-year-old Kingston took the witness stand for the prosecution about 2:40 p.m. and is expected to answer questions through Thursday. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. There is no sign. 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? "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. These men are living freely in the Cane Beds area. Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. 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. . One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . Another is a first cousin. "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. Blood tests showed the infant and 25 other children from numerous women were fathered by the same man, leading to one of the largest welfare fraud-settlements in Utah history. . . Everyone knows it's happening, few talk about it unprompted, it just sort of..is. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. . . . 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. "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. . . [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. 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. "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. "It's like any inbred disorder," Tarby says. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. ", (Joseph Carroll, "One in Four Americans Think Most Mormons Endorse Polygamy; Only 2% Think Most Americans Support Polygamy," by Gallup News Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 7 September 2006, at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e). died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. Although the official stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is against polygamy, several of the women's stories reveal that LDS leaders dismiss the deviant sects and blame the women who come to them for help. "'My guess is this man had used some of these inbreeding practices in his herd so he was probably in the camp that believed superior genetics could be propagated in a particular line,' Green says. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. Only the FLDS prophet can arrange and perform polygamous marriages, and those marriages are taking place in a community in which almost everybody is related. . . Okay, I have one legal wife, he said. . "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. Far as to call his former brethren white supremacists, and the church. 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