. "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. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. Julie left the cult at age 19. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. "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. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. . People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. . Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. . . . . . The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. . 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. 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. "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Indeed, regardless of facing crushing federal government opposition to polygamous inbreeding, true-blue Mormons remain convinced that you can't keep a good man of God down To them, polygamy will be coming back some day, with sizable numbers of the faithful flock confident that its eugenic genetics will return by order of Joseph's Jesus. . They can't do anything by themselves. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. . "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. . "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. Obsessed with the purity of their bloodline and empowered by a sense of entitlement on par with the divine right of kings, the Kingstons have made incest the cornerstone of a self-serving theology that loathes non whites, fosters homophobia and abhors government authority. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. 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. 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.. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. According to historian Brian Hales Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto, Brother Elden, as he was also known, had five wives and 17 children. Its ominous-sounding moniker, The Order, is a reference to the United Order, a quasi-utopian society proposed by LDS-founder Joseph Smith, and practiced in some Mormon communities under the leadership of early church president Brigham Young. According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. One is a first cousin. "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. She is guiding me all around town, following my route, turn by turn, on Google maps. In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. Which brings us back to the baby cemetery. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' 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. "Tarby and a team of doctors from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson began researching the disease and soon discovered that fumarase deficiency was occurring in at least two other families living in the same isolated community that practiced an unusual custom. Black people supposedly suffered from multiple scriptural curses, from the mark of Cain and Noahs curse on Ham in the Old Testament to the racist tenets of early Mormonism that have since been renounced or abandoned by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS or Mormon church. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' "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. Mormons can now see why American citizens passed laws intended to stop polygamy, a relic of unwise prophecy, laws continuously disregarded in Utah, a state controlled by the Mormon Church, if they will only look. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. 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. There have also been charges made that some plural wives and their children have . FOX 13 . and councilmen.' _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. 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. First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. Dawna says that, when people refer to what's going on over in the Cane Beds, they say it's probably another turkey baster situation. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. Something along the lines of, to build a superhuman, if you have four or five defects to get the one good one, its worth it, he recalled. 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). Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. . That's still gross." . "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. Child life is destroyed. . Wyler says he once saw a fumarase deficiency child suffer a seizure while she was sitting with her mother and two other children also suffering from the disorder. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". Blood tests showed the infant and 25 other children from numerous women were fathered by the same man, leading to one of the largest welfare fraud-settlements in Utah history. A loyal Order member for years, he lost his faith and ended up leaving the Order over a curse of sorts, leveled at his family by LaDonna. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. . . died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. "There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year," says Ron. 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 think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". 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. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . The Twelve Apostles of Mormonism then acted to increase this familial relationship by marrying other relatives until in 1877, at the end of Brigham Youngs reign as Mormon Prophet and King, the polygamous hierarchy became l00% interrelated. The three marriages between second cousins have produced at least eight children afflicted with fumarase deficiency, according to a report in the May 2000 'Annals of Neurology' (based on the study conducted by the group led by Tarby and Aleck), interviews with doctors treating the disease and anecdotal evidence gathered from the community. . . . . . In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. The company was founded in 2007 with an investment from family members. 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, . "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. . Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. Tarby. "Ex-members' claims of incest are bolstered by court records claiming John Ortell 'failed either to support or acknowledge' three children by his niece, (Susan) Mary Gustafson. . From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. . There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. 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. Through his brother LyleBishop of the FLDS and mouthpiece for his imprisoned brotherJeffs enacted a Judgment wherein FLDS members were asked a series of bizarre personal questions; their answers were judged, and the most righteous were welcomed into the United Order of FLDS elite. Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. [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. As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. . . They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. "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. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. 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. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. . The Latter Day Church of Christ, is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. "15 years ago, a strange-looking child suffering from severe physical maladies and acute retardation was brought into the office of [pedatric neurologist] Dr. Theodore Tarby. . She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. . Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. . sr. . 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. 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. Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm, http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html, http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html, http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723. . . . A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. But in a 2News . In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" 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.. . This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. ". 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. and cousins. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women-stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout Christendom, and which had been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious. Ross LeBaron Jr. recently took to the Internet to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, as well as for LaVoy Finicum, the lone fatality in that ordeal. . "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. . '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. "It is important that Mormons fight the tendency to discount history and the actions of their leaders in favor of a faith- promoting history while neglecting important facts. 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. Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. 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.'. The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. for Nathanael Allred's baby. Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. There lives Ross LeBaron Jr., a descendant of another polygamous sect (separate from the FLDS but quite similar in practice) called the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. But now that it was appearing in two children in the same family was an indication it was being spread by a gene that was getting passed to the children by their parents. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. 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. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "Today, six sons and two daughters of John Ortell and LaDonna have married at least 20 half-sisters, nieces and first cousins, giving birth to a family tree that twists and tangles, and, at times, withers with children born of genetic deficiencies. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. . . 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. . ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. . Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. . . But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. She also had a child with a clubfoot, and I think probably half of her children had respiratory problems when they were babies, because they were so related.". He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. . . It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. . He also married a woman descended from polygamy. Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. . Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. "I know these people personally.'. Mormons who believe that polygamy is a heaven-sent doctrine that will eventually be re-implemented on Earth by God (current Church claims of non-use notwithstanding), have a friend in go-to LDS Apostle, Bruce R. McConkie, who confidently declared: "Obviously, the holy practice [of polygamy] will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium. This denial is hollow considering the record. . If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. '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. 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. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. . . Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. . . Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. . "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. . 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