. [3] Charles Elden Kingston discourse, 1940 New Years Meeting, 8:40 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., 11; emphasis in original. Sally Kingston, a wife of one of the brothers, and. . "Every person carries some lethal genes. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. . "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. '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. The group has drawn legal attention before. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? ". . "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. . 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. ", 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). But women who are disobedient and fail to bear children including because they miscarry face ostracism, the lawsuit claims. joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. . "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. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. However, the law of consecration has a purpose beyond self-sacrifice. . "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. . 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. . And the Genealogy Department advises genealogists to follow only their direct line; in this instance meaning only the wife who is their mother, not other wives of their father. ", "Utah investigated the polygamous Kingston Group for welfare fraud 2 years ago. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. . . "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. 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. An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. "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. In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . . . . _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Legitimate businesses, including those in the Cooperative, argued that Jacob hid the scheme from business partners as well as Co-op leadership. . "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. . "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. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. "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. "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. He also married a woman descended from polygamy. "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. I am convinced they do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. We recall that Joseph Smith made no effort to implement the law of consecration while in Nauvoo (see D&C 105:34). Source: Twitter Jessica with her husband and three daughters. . "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. ", (Greg Burton, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet: Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous groups," in "The Salt Lake Tribune," 25 April 1999, at: http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html The complaint against the Kingston Group also known as the Order was filed in Salt Lake City last week by 10 people, including Amanda Rae Grant, who starred in the A&E docu-series Escaping Polygamy.. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. . . Sounds like I left a few out, he said after being reminded of how many children he had fathered in that family.[6]. [11] Some members had begun the practice of plural marriage years before the establishment of the cooperative. "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. ". 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. . on the history of the fundamentalist community. [49] As part of the plea deal and restitution, the company forfeits rights to a number of assets including their bio-fuel plant in Plymouth, Utah. 'We do know there are biological hazards. [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. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. breeding really functional? They have been known for systemic inbreeding, child sex abuse, physical abuse, child labor, and tax evasion. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. The Kingstons claim that Elden received a new dispensation is problematic in another way. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. . Connie Rugg, one of Ortells plural wives remembered: [Ortell Kingston] experimented inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.[4] Ortell desired to perfect his own bloodline and implemented practices that encouraged marriages of close relatives. Child life is destroyed. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . This means it may be genetically unwise for children of the early leaders to marry other children of early leaders, even now; yet, this tendency still exists in Mormonism. That leads to problems." . . "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. . Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. . I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. Bearing in mind I'm not American and have only a vague knowledge of Mormonism, a video came across my youtube from a former member of the Kingston clan/the order and wow is this terrifying. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. _____. 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. . "My dad had a thing that was supposed to shoot radio waves or something like that, that . Like any fundamentalist Mormon sect, the Kingston Clan is very hierarchal. [7], Plural marriage is practiced by some members of the LDCJC and members make their own choice in who they marry. . "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' That apparently was John Ortell Kingston's intent, although most studies of first-cousin mating show their offspring test lower on IQ exams, Jorde says. . . "He sent her to live in a coal yard with other polygamous wives and their many children in South Salt Lake, visiting her rarely and usually only to have sex, she testified. Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more. . Performance & security by Cloudflare. [17] That same year, Ardous Kingston Gustafson, a mother of four and founding Co-op member, was jailed on Christmas Eve when she could not produce membership lists that were to be used to target plural families for further arrest and harassment. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. The Kingston Clan is a polygamous group with an estimated 10,500 members. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. 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. "Tarby says he explained to [a] gathering at [a] Town Hall in Colorado City that the only way to stop fumarase deficiency in the community is to abort fetuses that test positive for the disease and for the community to stop intermarriages between Barlows and Jessops, Barlows and Barlows and Jessops and Jessops. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. . . "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. Because I fell down this rabbit hole and now so do you all. Children are allowed to attend public school and many go on to college. 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. One of the guilty pleas states they cycled fraud proceeds through a number of international partners and then back to Washakie's bank accounts, falsely claiming them as loans or profits. "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. Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . . 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. . . "With a well-thought-out plan," Hope After Polygamy explains, "she was successful; the judge granted her emancipation when she was 17 years old. . 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.'. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . 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. "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. [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." . "A Secretive Refrain: . While his children and wife initially resisted his new religious position, they eventually joined him in asking their names to be removed from LDS Church records. The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest American hate group, and while the number of active KKK chapters declined in 2016, members of the Klan are trying to regain ground. . . It is a common and intentional practice in the Order to require girls and women to submit sexually to their husbands even if the sexual submission is against their will because having children results in workers for the benefit of the Order, the lawsuit states. and Privacy Policy. [39] The 2022 complaint was filed by attorney, Roger Hoole,[39] an attorney known for representing ex-members of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. . "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . "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. . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . . The Prophet Josephs priorities of missionary work, temple ordinances, proxy work for the dead, and feeding the poor appear to have been lost somewhere. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. Several charges of incest would eventually be leveled against various Kingston members. The two Kingston brothers and their business partner, Lev Dermen, are in jail awaiting trial, scheduled to start in July and last six weeks. During the 1920s, hundreds of dissenters from the LDS Church gathered into specific groups across the Wasatch Front. Never miss a story. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. . The suit was filed against the groups leader Paul Eldon Kingston and 21 other members. . . . . 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. . "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline 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. . . . 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of the mainstream church, which abandoned the practice in 1890 and now strictly prohibits it. Exhibiting LGBTQ+ tendencies can indicate impure blood, according to the lawsuit. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' 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. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy.