. . People in plural marriages and held above those aren't. People who are members of the Kingston family by blood are held up higher than members of the Clan who are not also blood members of the Kingston family. . ("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. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. . Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. 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. This practice has been attributed to "endogamous preference and the small size of the groups population" according to recent research from the University of California. "[2], According to a 2011 document prepared by the attorneys general of the states of Utah and Arizona, the church describes itself as emphasizing family values, education, self-sufficiency, and the belief that every child is a priceless blessing. . Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. . [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. It is also a place of child abuse (court cases verify), neglected Sister Wives due to Polygamist practices (former members report this), Incest (court cases verify), and spiritual abuse (former . He believed he had superior bloodlines.' . "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . . [50][51], Davis County Cooperative leadership and members swiftly condemned the fraudulent behavior stating that "[Jacob] broke from tradition in many ways" and stressing "to members and non-members alike that this behavior is not in line with our beliefs or principles." . "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . . . "Her book . . . . 'The downside is that if you don't start with good genetics, and if there is baggage in the genes of the individual, inbreeding will uncover that baggage. Two weeks after is excommunication, Kingston had a dream wherein he believed he was visited by Jesus Christ and God the Father. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. . 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. 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. 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 Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . Thanks for contacting us.
Is 'Escaping Polygamy' Real? Find out If The Lifetime - Distractify 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. Since the natural male-to-female ratio is roughly 50-50, the ratio must be manipulated so that there are more females than males for polygamy to work. Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Derman was found guilty of masterminding the scheme in March 2020. Women, meanwhile, allegedly gain status by being pure of blood and obedient, becoming the first wives of higher-ranking numbered men, and bearing many children. . 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. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. [The Lord] had to institute another New and Everlasting Covenant which he gave to another 25 year old boy on the highest mountain east of Bountiful on the first day of the year, 1935. . 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. "In May, the girl said she was belt-whipped by her father inside a Kingston-owned barn in Box Elder County for fleeing the marriage, and was abandoned in the home of another of John Daniel's wives. By the time Joseph Smith Jessop died in September 1953, he already had 112 grandchildren, the majority of them directly descended from him and Yeates. So many young people.'. The lone man suing said three Order men raped him when he was 16 or 17 and that when he left the group and announced he was gay, was tracked down and severely beaten by a group of boys acting at the direction of the Order, the lawsuit alleges. [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." the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. It is the power of God through the law or covenant of consecration given to Brother Elden in 1935. "Another of Rugg's full sisters, Andrea Johnson, died in 1992 of complications of pre-eclampsia, a condition of pregnancy that was not treated until after the young girl, swollen with toxic fluid, was rushed to the emergency unit at University Hospital. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. . Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. "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. During the 1920s, hundreds of dissenters from the LDS Church gathered into specific groups across the Wasatch Front. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . . . Never miss a story. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. "'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. 5, p. 22. refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. . "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. . One brother, John Daniel Kingston, was taken to court for neglecting this children. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. Precisely where Elden obtained valid priesthood authority is a matter of dispute. LDS scripture teaches that in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established (D&C 6:28; 2 Cor. ". "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . The Kingston family first embraced polygamy around 1931 when, according to author Max Anderson, Charles W. Kingston helped produce a pamphlet that contained a version of Lorin C. Woolley's claims that former LDS Church President John Taylor had set aside a select group of men to carry on polygamy even as the church publicly disavowed the practice. [2] Also known as the LDCJC,[3] the Kingston Clan, and The Order,[4][5][6] it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. . The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. [7], Plural marriage is practiced by some members of the LDCJC and members make their own choice in who they marry. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. . "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. . As a symbol of their renunciation of worldly goods, the outer clothing contained no pockets in which possessions could be carried, although later an inside pocket was provided for the sanitary measure of carrying a handkerchief. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. . 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. "FLDS marriages, Wyler and other community experts say, are an extension of a breeding program that began with Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in the 1830s. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. . Children inherit disabling illnesses. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. "With a well-thought-out plan," Hope After Polygamy explains, "she was successful; the judge granted her emancipation when she was 17 years old. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. "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. . Assets are generally estimated to be in the range of $200 million, although one Colorado competitor gave an even more stratospheric guess, pegging the clan's wealth at $11 billion. http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09- http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html, http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html. . "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. The Kingston Group is not affiliated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based on the Utah-Arizona line that is run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, who. 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.
As Kingston wife charged in child's death, former clan members - KUTV "Community historian Ben Bistline said most of the community's 8,000 residents are in two major families descended from a handful of founders who settled there in the 1930s. [21] Over the past 25 years, many members have become college-educated and live in middle-to-upper-middle-class homes throughout their communities. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene greatly increases, medical experts say. Jacob Kingston pleaded guilty to 41 charges, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aiding/assistance in filing a false claim, money laundering and obstruction. . . According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that.
Federal agents raid Utah offices of polygamous Kingston Group . But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. . 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. .
FOX 13 Investigates: Non-profit run by polygamous Kingston group - KSTU . [in order] to reduce competition for wives. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. and Privacy Policy. . The group sought to maintain Pure Kingston Blood by arranging marriages between cousins and other close relatives, and shunning relationships that werent between white people, the lawsuit alleges.
ozpoof . [31][32][33] During this time, some non-members and ex-members began claiming the practice stemmed from theories of genetic purification held by past leaders. Kingston members today generally claim that keys were received anew from heavenly messengers directly to Elden in 1935, although it appears he left no formal testimony to that effect. Charles Zitting (one of Lorin C. Woolleys High Priest Apostles) introduced Kingston to plural marriage, causing Kingston to be cut off from the Church in 1929. . It gets pretty bleak when it gets that close.' All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. "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. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a302ff8194befb0 This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. All went bareheaded and barefoot. If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. ", ("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) The Kingston Group stopped proselytizing new converts when the cooperative became successful, and today they perform no missionary work of any kind. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. "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.' Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. "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. . . Over the past decades, the Kingston Group has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive cooperative system, with wealth in at least 50 corporations in Utah and scattered across the West. "There is too little empirical data of uncle-niece, half-brother/half-sister mating to draw firm conclusions about the IQ, survival rates, birth defects or longevity of their offspring, he says. . "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. The trial of the man, David Ortell Kingston . _____. This is why those laws need to be enforced. "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. 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. [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. A member of a polygamist clan today was convicted of incest with his 16-year-old niece, who testified that she had been forced to become his 15th wife. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. Performance & security by Cloudflare. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. . Order girls are taught from birth that their primary purposes in life are to be obedient, a submissive wife, and to bear as many children as possible, the suit states. Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. ". Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. "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. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. 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"Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. After two years of investigating, they did not find any welfare fraud.
Escaping Polygamy - Wikipedia . ", (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). 'A lady comes in and helps her. "'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. '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. . "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 children afflicted with fumarase deficiency from these three marriages include the grandchildren of Dan Barlow and his brother, the late Louis Barlow, and Merill Jessop, a top aide to fugitive prophet Warren Jeffs. An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. 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. _____. "Fast-forward . Several charges of incest would eventually be leveled against various Kingston members. "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. In the 1940s and 50s, Kingston followers designed and wore unique outer garments, the wearing of which led other people to refer to them as blue-coats. Men and boys wore a blue coverall-type suit tied with strings, while women and girls wore plain blue dresses.
Polygamist Is Convicted of Incest - The New York Times KUTV A large police presence swarmed a well-known polygamous family's property in South Salt Lake Wednesday.A Department of Justice Spokesman Peter Carr confirmed to KUTV that it is involved in . With the dawn of the twenty-first century, lawsuits and education among Kingston followers would combine to create new obstacles, as leaders perpetuate this financially spiritual hybrid organization. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. Men make all decisions affecting her health. Photocopy in authors possession. "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. A Kingston Family Primer. The Kingston family is quite real and is a polygamous unit. "[52][46][53] In a recent lawsuit, ex-members allege that the WRE case was an example of the concept of "bleeding the beast." when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. It may be that the Co-op is trying to help the poor in some anonymous way, but I have seen no evidence of it. . . 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. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. . "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. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center.
Winnipeg's Bear Clan still active during pandemic, despite 'small COVID We specifically read that the law of consecration is designed to administer to the poor and the needy (D&C 42:35). "There is no doubt in the mind of any expert interviewed by 'New Times' that the practice of polygamy combined with inbreeding has fostered the spread of fumarase deficiency. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. And in 1999, David Ortell Kingston Jeremy Kingston's uncle was sentenced to the Utah State Prison for up to 10 years for committing incest with the 16-year-old niece who became his 15th wife. "My dad had a thing that was supposed to shoot radio waves or something like that, that . . For a more detailed view the the Kingston's historysee Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2006). . "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. The Kingston sisters were able to help her escape although Ava wanted to stay with her family, she knew she couldn't give up her sense of self and continue watching the cycle of abuse continue. . "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. John Gustafson, a representative of the Davis County Cooperative Society, an affiliate of the Kingston Group, disputed the lawsuits claims. As a symbol of their renunciation of worldly goods, the outer clothing contained no pockets in which possessions could be carried, although later an inside pocket was provided for the sanitary measure of carrying a handkerchief. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. This seemed to apply in my own kindred because those of us who left Mormonism and married outsiders are less riddled with the deleterious genetic legacy than relatives who married within the ancestral Mormon gene pool. 75.119.192.80 . and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. "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. Kingston began preaching polygamy amongst fellow members of the LDS Church and distributing pamphlets and the book he had co-written, Laman Manasseh Victorious: A Message of Salvation and Redemption to His People Israel, First to Ephraim and Manasseh. "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. The Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes the Kingston clan as an " incest and white supremacy " group for its practices outlined in Escaping Polygamy, which include teaching children to not associate themselves with non-white people and, as mentioned by the lawsuit, marrying underage children off to family members of The Order.