. 5, p. 22. 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 . "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. "State investigators found no wrongdoing among members of the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. Legitimate businesses, including those in the Cooperative, argued that Jacob hid the scheme from business partners as well as Co-op leadership. . . The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. We recall that Joseph Smith made no effort to implement the law of consecration while in Nauvoo (see D&C 105:34). In addition, placing the law of consecration at the pinnacle of divine laws is inconsistent with scripture and restoration history. . ", (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). Thanks for contacting us. One child born with an incomplete liver died. "John and Charles' brother, Merlin Barnum Kingston, married and had children with four nieces and a half-sister, say ex-members, including one of his own daughters. I am convinced they do. "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. . 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. [47][48] The remainder of the transactions (over 94%) were to entities associated with Lev Derman, who prosecutors allege was the mastermind of the scheme. "The widespread presence of the fumarase deficiency gene in the bloodlines of the founding families of Colorado City is going to make reaching any such goal extremely difficult. 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. . However, the group reiterated its belief that "bleeding the beast" was "abhorent" and was "never a tenet" of its organization. If the FLDS faithful believed that Jeffs was relying on science to determine marriages rather than divine revelation from God, he could lose control of the church. . 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. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. [20] Long-time leader John Ortell Kingston lived in a small one-story clapboard house in Salt Lake City up until the time of his death in 1987. A young child is also one of the accusers in the suit with allegations the child was raped by his or her father, who allegedly raped the mother. living in Colorado City and Hildale are blood descendants of the Barlows and the Jessops, says Benjamin Bistline, a lifelong resident of the area who has published a book . [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. . . This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. The group also teaches its members that only those with so-called pure blood will survive the apocalypse, according to the lawsuit. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. . "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. "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. . 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. Supposedly, these sacrifices are part of the united order. . . . After two years of investigating, they did not find any welfare fraud. Kingston Clan. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . 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. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. "Our ancestral destiny meant we might give birth to sons who would die at maturity or daughters who would carry the trait to the next generation of sons. "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? . I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. Well, law enforcement often tends to look the other way in cases like polygamy, unless specific reports reach the agencies. "Every person carries some lethal genes. "It was . 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. Derman was found guilty of masterminding the scheme in March 2020. . 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. . [15][16] The Grand Jury was described as "The polygamist hunting Davis County Grand Jury" by the Ogden Standard-Examiner in 1959. 75.119.192.80 "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. "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. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. IF polygamy really is justified in increased breeding, and since MORmON Jesus did institute such a plan according to MORmON history at one time, then how come MORmON god does not follow through and have a lot more females born in such marriages as would be required mathematically to make His We dont expect any of the claims to prevail in a court of law.. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. . Jeremy Kingston was sentenced to a year in prison in 2004 for taking LuAnn Kingston, his cousin and aunt, as his fourth wife in 1994; their relationship began when he was 24 and she was 15. . These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. The Kingston family is quite real and is a polygamous unit. [7] Members of the Latter Day Church of Christ are also members of the Davis County Cooperative Society (a separate organization and legal entity) which practices the law of consecration and United Order. . [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. it is the only popular religion there,", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Deseret News," 6 August 1862, "This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans, . Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer. 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. The scheme included filing for $512 million in federal renewable-fuel tax credits from 2010 to 2016 through a company named Washakie Renewable Energy LLC. If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. "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. Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. . ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . This is a humane coping strategy devised to deal with a dilemma that devastated a woman taught from birth her only value was in the number of children she bore for the Kingdom of God. requote from Steve's excellent post ! . . . The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. But rather than amassing a fortune for the sake of accumulating wealth or to simply sustain a few selected leaders, donations flow into the Church coffers and out again to provide financial support for the accomplishment of the Churchs responsibilities regarding missionary work, temple work, and providing for physical welfare needs. 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? 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.'. 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. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. David Kingston is alleged to have married his 16-year-old niece Mary Ann Nelson, who attempted to run away but was apprehended and beaten by her father, John Daniel Kingston. 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). During the 1920s, hundreds of dissenters from the LDS Church gathered into specific groups across the Wasatch Front. [41][42] Despite this, the latest suit alleges marriages as young as 16 within the Latter Day Church of Christ have continued. Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. We've received your submission. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. 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. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' By 1935, his followers began to move to Bountiful, Utah, intending to live under a United Order communal program as defined by Joseph Smith in the Doctrine and Covenants. . 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. However, the law of consecration has a purpose beyond self-sacrifice. "For more than 70 years, all marriages in the isolated towns have been arranged by the leader of the FLDS, a breakaway sect of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. Carolyn regularly worked at and tended . . "[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. They ought to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices; and it is not to be wondered at that they should envy those who so much better understand the social relations. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. . 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. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. "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. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. ", (Linda Walker, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics," under "Science as Culture," originally written in the fall of 1991, updated in the summer of 1999, citations included, at: http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html) "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. Thanks for signing up! This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. [6] Brooke Adams, Salt Lake Tribune, May 22, 2004. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Children inherit disabling illnesses. . "Her book . They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. ". . ". 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. : About half of the 8,000 people living in the towns are blood relatives of two of the founding families that settled in the 1930s on the desolate high desert plateau against the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. The word dispensation refers to two processes. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. The suit includes ten former members alleging the organization used marriages to "unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes". 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. 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. LDS scripture teaches that in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established (D&C 6:28; 2 Cor. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. Performance & security by Cloudflare. "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? "My dad had a thing that was supposed to shoot radio waves or something like that, that . . If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. 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. . 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. . . . Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. Jacob Kingston told prosecutors the company was capable of producing some amounts of biodiesel, but in no year did it ever produce more than 8.5 million gallons. A brief review of the accomplishments of the Co-op produces an impressive spreadsheet with assets in excess of $200 million. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) Exhibiting LGBTQ+ tendencies can indicate impure blood, according to the lawsuit. [23][36] These relationships are defined as incestuous according to Utah's Criminal Code 76-7-102 (2021), which states: "Related person" means a person related to the provider or actor as an ancestor, descendant, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, or first cousin, and includes: (i) blood relationships of the whole or half blood without regard to legitimacy; (ii) the relationship of parent and child by adoption; and (iii) the relationship of stepparent and stepchild while the marriage creating the relationship of a stepparent and stepchild exists. 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. The chickens are coming home to roost. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. "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. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. . 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 . One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. 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. Children are allowed to attend public school and many go on to college. The Kingstons represent an intriguing branch on the Mormon fundamentalist tree. But in a 2News . . . Duringa 2020 trialfor a California businessman accused of carrying out a nearly $500 million biodiesel fraud scheme with a member of the Kingston Group, attorneys for the businessman called the Kingstons an incestuous polygamous group that is always scheming to defraud the US government in what the group calls bleeding the beast., A spokesman for the group, Kent Johnson, called those allegations categorically false.. She suffered from. . "Marriages among first and second cousins have been common for decades in the community, where religious doctrine requires men to have at least three wives to gain eternal salvation. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. . [5] Michael Janofsky, Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy, New York Times, February 27, 2003, Late EditionFinal Section A-1. Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more. "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. [7] Some members of the church are also believed to practice consanguineous marriage, or marriage to relatives within the group. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? . "During this early period, polygamy was practiced secretly by the Mormon leadership, men who covertly preached and expanded polygamy while publicly deceiving the general Mormon population about the practice. From the "Phoenix New Timms" article, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children": "Colorado City resident Isaac Wyler says FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs is trying to create the 'perfect race.'. [39], The organization continues to publicly denounce the practice of child marriage,[41][39] and maintains that marriages within the group are not coerced. ', "Aleck says the fact that so many people in the polygamist enclave are blood relatives of the founding Barlow and Jessop families 'shows the magnitude of the problem.'.
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