. "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. . . Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. . 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. 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. 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. . 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' . . breeding really functional? 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' 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. . . He estimates the test would . 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 . . 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. . Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. There is no doubt about that at all. . ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. . Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). Elden had predicted that he would be resurrected from the dead, so clan members kept his body on ice for three days, to no avail. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . . Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. . 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. "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. 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. . "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 girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. "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. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. Those affected by the genetic disorder suffer grand mal seizures and often have facial feature deformities and severe mental retardation, with IQs as low as 25. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. ". "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. unavailable to researchers. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. One is a first cousin. . Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. . . . "It's like any inbred disorder," Tarby says. 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.'. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. 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. . Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' Even the few highly educated people there . "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. Young denied that The Order was racist or taught any form of bigotry, and said he had people of all races working for him. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. "A Secretive Refrain: . The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. Meanwhile, as Mormons wait patiently and faithfully for multi-wifery's official return, the words of their founding Church fathers sound praise to polygamy past, present and future: --The Mormon God's Declaration of Righteous Genetic Combinations: Monogamy is a Christian Blight on Humanity, While Polygamy is the Lord's Way to Produce Fresh, Virile Men; Good-Lookin' Women; and Super Strong Stock to Carry Civilization Into Eternity. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. . 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . . "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. 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. Carolyn. . 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. . The letter asserts that one of the earliest members of the church was a Native American man and that the Co-op, as it is sometimes called, has been the victim of prejudice and harassment by Utahs majority religion (i.e., the LDS church) because of the formers progressive ideas. This is all compounded by the split between the FLDS and an offshoot group of polygamists that moved to nearby Centennial Park following a disagreement over how the community should be governed, and by whom). WREs influence earned special scrutiny in February 2016 after the IRS, the EPA and other government agencies raided owner Jacob Kingstons house as well as The Orders bank and other locations, carting away bankers box after bankers box of records. The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. . We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. . Tarby. This denial is hollow considering the record. . "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. 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. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, with the help of her boyfriend Bryan. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. . "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. "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. Despite its on-going public relations effort to convince Americans that Mormons don't really support polygamy (and despite the belief of many devout Mormons that polygamy came from God as revealed church doctrine which will eventually be reinstated when Jesus returns to the Earth), a quarter of Americans surveyed also have expressed the opinion that most Mormons embrace the idea of plural marriage: "A . I am convinced they do. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. '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. Three of his wives are his half-sisters. She explained that they weren't supposed to know who their dad was, only her . "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. . 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. . Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. . [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. 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. "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. . . Those affected by the genetic disorder suffer grand mal seizures and often have facial feature deformities and severe mental retardation, with IQs as low as 25. "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. . --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. . 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.. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. The son of Pauls sister Rachel herself a daughter of Ortell and LaDonna Kingston Young was the only current member of the Kingston clan, out of the many contacted for this story, who consented to a live, on-the-record interview. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. . Dawna asks me. . The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. "Like his father-in-law, John Y. Barlow became one of the towering patriarchs of the fundamentalist Mormon community and served as FLDS prophet from 1935 until his death in 1949. . Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. 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. There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble. . "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. But given that the Kingstons command an estimated 6,000 adherents, boast a business empire reportedly worth as much as $1 billion and have outlasted myriad bouts with law enforcement and the press, these dreams of world domination may be less delusional than they first seem. She is guiding me all around town, following my route, turn by turn, on Google maps. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. . "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. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. "I'm like, Really? Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . One man, who asks to remain nameless to protect his and his family's privacy, describes a lifetime of round-the-clock care and too-frequent hospital visits for his five sons. "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. 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. We would cause harm, he confessed. . '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. . ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . "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. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. . "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. . "And my oldest daughter, she's 18 and she's dated a couple of my cousins, which makes them her second cousins, and we're like, Eww, that's gross.". There is no sign. Why is this? 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