"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. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. . [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. 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. In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. . In 2003, Order member Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking his first cousin, 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston, as his fourth wife. 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. Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. But by 2006, Dr. Theodore Tarby, of Arizona, had discovered at least 20 more children living with the condition in Short Creek, all within just blocks of each other. Not one defect, but many. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. There is no sign. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. More recently, the Kingston-owned Washakie Renewable Energy (WRE) agreed to pay a $3 million fine after it was sued by the federal government for raking in tax credits for biofuels it never produced. "Dr. Vinodh Narayanan, a pediatric neurologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, says he is seeking funding to develop a test that would allow public health officials to collect voluntary blood samples from as many FLDS members as possible. The stage was set for the appearance of the rare disease when their 12th child, Martha Jessop, married her second cousin, John Yeates Barlow, in 1923, according to LDS genealogy data and Colorado City historian Ben Bistline. During an interview with this reporter, Lu Ann Kingston, whose defiance of the cult led to the conviction of her former spiritual husband Jeremy, recalled that Order members saw intermarriage as a way to keep the bloodline pure., All outsiders are considered to be beneath Order members, she explained. Okay, I have one legal wife, he said. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. 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. . Tucker recounted the clans version of the apocalypse, the End of the World War, a riff on a prophecy some ascribe to Joseph Smith, called The White Horse Prophecy. 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. But I do have children with other women., Asked if two women named were in fact his first cousins, Young paused, finally replying, I guess Im curious as to what youre trying to get at here.. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? They can't do anything by themselves. Desert Tech and its rifles have been featured on Fox News, Mythbusters, Daredevil and The Blacklist, among other TV shows. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. . 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. One of her brothers married a woman whose grandmother is a sister to their father. . . A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. Martha's husband was "Uncle" Fred Jessop, longtime Bishop to the FLDS people, who died in 2005 at 94, after being dragged from state to state by Warren Jeffs in what many ex-members believe was a transparent scheme of murder-by-stress: Dragging around a physically ailing, elderly man in need of constant medication is one way to kill a person without committing any outright murderous act, they say. . "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. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. . "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . . Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' . "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. In the revelation, the Lord commands him to take virgins 'an hundredfold in this world' for the purpose to 'multiply and replenish the Earth' so 'they may bear the souls of men.' "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. Carolyn Yvonne Kingston was born in 1938 in Elmo, Utah, to Charles Elden Kingston, and his first wife Ethel Gustafson, so she was the daughter of the first prophet of the Kingston Clan. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. deficiency. . The 43-year-old Kingston took the witness stand for the prosecution about 2:40 p.m. and is expected to answer questions through Thursday. restricted in some polygamous sects, including FLDS groups in Colorado City, Arizona; Hildale, Utah; and West Texas, that force some of the young males to leave the communities . 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 . Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. "Two years later, a pair of geneticists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., flew to Utah where they hoped to stage a seminar for Kingston family members about the dangers of incest and birth defects, and, presumably, gain permission to study the clan. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced . . In secret videotapes of Order church meetings aired on Escaping Polygamy, Pauls nephew Nick Young, speaking from a church lectern, identifies himself as a numbered man, number 72, to be precise. They can't sit up. . . "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. "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. . . In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" "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. On the show's pilot, the trio bring a burly security guard along as they help a woman sneak into her own home to grab belongings for herself and her two young daughters. . "Wyler said it's all part of the community's religious system. "Victims suffer a range of symptoms, including severe epileptic seizures, inability to walk or even sit upright, severe speech impediments, failure to grow at a normal rate, and tragic physical deformities. Young told Intelligence Report that his company has sold weapons, with the approval of the U.S. State Department, to governments in Europe and the Middle East, Saudi Arabia being one. 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? when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. The fact that most of the people in the Kingston clan were born into the lifestyle is very key to group think because this is all they know, and some may never question the beliefs even when they age because it has been their whole world all their life. . . . Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. . . Structural Birth Defects. Because that one is going to be genius-level purity, and thats what The Order is looking for., Photo Credit: AP Images / Leah Hogsten, Pool (John Daniel Kingston); AP Images / Jeffrey D. Allred / Pool (Jeremy Kingston), SPLC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 63-0598743). "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. 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." . Yeah, I believe in it, he said. . . _____. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. . "There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble because he was having children with these young girls, so he said, 'Well, I never had sex with themI used a turkey baster.'" Home births and the frequency of miscarriages and still-borns among the Kingstons have led to macabre legends of dead infants buried in Kingston back yards. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. ', "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.'. . "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). 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. . 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. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? . Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. Which brings us back to the baby cemetery. Not only were there possibly too few fathers making it easier for defects to clump in the large interrelated kindred but succeeding generations of children from these isolated rural Mormon towns married within a few kindred as well. 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. 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 . . An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. One outspoken Mormon matriarch who attended the same Sunday meeting for 50 years commented about the health of the polygamous descendants versus the monogamous descendants, 'You see it in the obituaries. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. He estimates the test would . The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. "It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are" before getting married or pregnant, she adds. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. . '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. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. A fifth child, they say, was fathered by their eldest brother Wayne LeBaron, (who was married to Dawna Black Bistline's cousin at the time of this child's allegedly incestuous conception). 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. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. 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. . for Nathanael Allred's baby. unavailable to researchers. . 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. . Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. 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. Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal Men make all decisions affecting her health. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. . The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. 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. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. . . . The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. . Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . They are coming out of polygamous communities proliferating in Utah because Mormons are unable to face their history or follow sound marriage and childbirth practices. Let's revisit the boastful words of Mormon Church Prophet John Taylor and Mormon Church Apostle Heber C. Kimball, both quoted earlier: -Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. . " 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. . 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. . If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. "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. . Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. . One is a first cousin. . "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. Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. . ", ("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) They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. 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. It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. . Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. That will open up for The Order to rise up and take over the world, Ron said. "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 Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. "It was . Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. He was. 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. '", (John Dougherty, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children," in "Phoenix New Times," 29 December 2005, at: http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html) Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. In addition to this issue, since the rulers . . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. And another one of her sisters married one of my half-brothers, but we have the same blood and genetics because our moms are full sisters." This racist display was no one-off. [in order] to reduce competition for wives. Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. 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. Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. . "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. . Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. 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. 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