"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. . October 15, 2002: "There will be a viewing at father's house at 3p.m. Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. . Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. . 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. ". . She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . And during a recent picnic to honor the birthday of patriarch John Ortell Kingston, Order families descended on a Salt Lake Valley park, where hundreds of children of all ages blanketed the parks green expanse. The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' and councilmen.' Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. ozpoof He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. . Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. . "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. The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. . Polygamy would have afforded the opportunity of producing from that consecrated fatherhood and motherhood the improved type of man the world needs to reveal the highest possibilities of the race, that the day of the super man might come, and with him come also the redemption and betterment of the race.'. "Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding. '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. Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. . . Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). Matt Browning seems less sure. It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. "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. 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. . Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. . According to experts and former Jeffs followers, the cause of the birth defect is clear: Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called Fumarase Deficiency. Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. . There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year. So many young people.'. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . "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. . In one, Ortell warns that there is a movement afoot that wants to homogenize the people and make one race, by mixing all the races up. . I owe my children and all children who risk becoming the next unwitting victims of this tragic genetic legacy the best information regarding the prevention of this lethal family inheritance that I can find. . I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. Not one defect, but many. 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. 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. "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. KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. hello Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. . Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? . According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. Two are nieces. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. . Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. 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. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. "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. . Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series Escaping Polygamy, remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring. . 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. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. Some outside the church have referred to the group as "the Kingston Clan" or the "Kingston Cult," although leaders believe that these terms are "inaccurate and derogatory." . Branches of the polygamist mans family left out of the genealogy will change the incidence of common ancestors and potentially mask the true disease risk and incidence in the community. . 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 early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. This is why those laws need to be enforced. 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.". . "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. . 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 . A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. . Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' FOX 13 . . 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. . When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. (KUTV) Weeks after a Kingston polygamist clan member was charged in the death of her child, former members of that group are speaking out about what they say is a much bigger problem. 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 baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. "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. The two were playmates when they were boys. 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. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. Known variously as Brother Paul, the leader, and the man on the watchtower by Order members, this unremarkable, balding middle-aged man reportedly has 27 wives and over 300 children. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. He estimates the test would . _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. 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. . . 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. When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. 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 . Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. We're sitting in Ron's large kitchen, eating a meal of homemade tomato sauce and sweet Italian sausage that his wife Geria retired marriage and family therapist originally from Hurleyville, NY, who he met six years ago on Zoosk!has prepared in a slowcooker. 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. Some would say that is because it takes generations for certain inbred recessive genetic traits to manifest. The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. Which brings us back to the baby cemetery. . As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. '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. . If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. 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. . They're given the utmost attention and care because the FLDS faithful believe everything in this life is a test before entering the celestial kingdom, and caring well for all of Heavenly Father's children is part of that test. "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. Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. Young denied that The Order was racist or taught any form of bigotry, and said he had people of all races working for him. She directs me to the houses she lived in after that: her stepdad Jim Jessop's home; then the rotten, roach-infested house she and her mother shared with nearly two dozen cousins and friends after being removed from Jim's following the Judgment. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Also known as the LDCJC, the Kingston Clan, and The Order, it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. ". The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". Carolyn. July 1, 2020. I'm driving around Short Creek with Alyssawho is in Boise, Idaho, where she is a college sophomorepiped in through the bluetooth-enabled speakerphone in the rental car I'd picked in Las Vegas the previous night. . Appointments & Access. 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.. a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. . All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. Kingston -- the late enigmatic leader and church prophet who built the 1,500-member Kingston clan into a multimillion-dollar business empire while allowing many of his purported 13 wives and dozens of children to survive on government assistance. Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. He prepared urine samples and sent them to the University of Colorado Science Center's Dr. Steve Goodman, a professor of pediatrics who runs a laboratory that detects rare genetic diseases. 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). 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. The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. 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. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" . "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. . . ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. 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 . 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