'All of a sudden [with] this one little baby, everything tightened up and she arched her back so hard her head was almost touching her toes,' Wyler says. . "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. . By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. and is expected to answer questions . 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. . Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story, the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, an article published by the ABC news network, the fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. 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. 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). "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. "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. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. July 1, 2020. So what about polygamy? . Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. 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. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. . . "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. I could see that the leaders of The Order really did believe we had black ancestors, Ron explained, with Christy next to him, and his adult daughters Emily and Julie nearby. . . This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. Branches of the polygamist mans family left out of the genealogy will change the incidence of common ancestors and potentially mask the true disease risk and incidence in the community. 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. 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. Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. "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.". "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. Somehow LaDonnas curse was transferred to the Tuckers via Christy, Rons wife, because, Christys mom left The Order and married an Irishman, before leaving him and returning to the fold. They can't do anything by themselves. "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. . and last updated 1:46 PM, Feb 24, 2021. This racist display was no one-off. . 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. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . Carolyn. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. His eldest died six years ago at 10 years old, he says, and another died in infancy, leaving behind two remaining brothers from a set of spontaneous identical triplets. . Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. 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. . ", "They took their lives," Ron says. "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. Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. A retired Arizona law enforcement officer, Browning is the president and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network and is in charge of security for the A&E show, where his wife Tawni works as the casting producer. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) . [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. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. So many young people.'. 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. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . . They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. . . . Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. "Other possible genetic traits include: microcephaly, a malformation of the skull in which the infant has a small head (ex-members say two children with microcephaly have died and eight others are institutionalized); blindness; spina bifida; Down syndrome; kidney disease and abnormal leg and arm joints. "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. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. That sister, too, dealt with a lot of respiratory problems with her kids, "because of the relation," Dawna explains. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. ". The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. 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. "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. "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. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. . Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. hello . 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. "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. I pass the dairy, the zoo, the park, the former birthing clinic, the condemned high school built on a foundation of adobe bricks, and so on. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. [in order] to reduce competition for wives. Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. . In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. . Black blood was the worst thing you can have, Jessica said, particularly since the Kingstons consider themselves to be the whitest of the white, descended directly from Jesus Christ and King David, the Middle Eastern origins of both men notwithstanding. . 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". . Appointments & Access. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. 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. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. The Latter Day Church of Christ, is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. lucky Not one defect, but many. 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. . "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. "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. . Three of his wives are his half-sisters. He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. . Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. Many children have had birth defects due to this inbreeding. She talked about how you cant associate with black people or anybody of a different race., Based on available evidence, including the accounts of numerous former Order members, the SPLC has designated The Order as a hate group under the category of `general hate.'. . . . . For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' Have you also noticed all the genetic and other debilitating defects, deformities and diseases that comes along with your poisoned patriarchal plurality-of-wives club? Okay, I have one legal wife, he said. In a portion of Warren Jeffs' Priesthood Record a mostly dry document that details his every move and meeting one entry, a written transcription of an announcement made by Warren at lunch with his late father's family, stands out as particularly creepy. "It is Moore-Emmett's belief that the LDS Church who started polygamy in this country should take responsibility and provide financial aid and other resources for those polygamous families who have been abused. One ex-Order member, who asked to be referred to as Scott, instead of his real name for fear of retribution by clan members, said hatred of gays was big in the Kingston clan, with the word f----- in frequent use. . For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' . The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. "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. Desert Tech and its rifles have been featured on Fox News, Mythbusters, Daredevil and The Blacklist, among other TV shows. . . 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. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. 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 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. . . girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. . materials or even attempted to focus team and society have a kingston clan member was charged with birth defects increase becomes apparent similarities than. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 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. . . 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. This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. . The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. 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