Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. . 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.'. Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. I hate to talk like this about my own genealogy,' Wyler says, 'but, literally, they are keeping all the breeding stock--the women, the [strictly faithful] men--and weeding out the disobedient men. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. 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? "Dr. Tarby, who routinely treats fumarase deficiency children at a state-funded clinic in Flagstaff, says, 'They are funny-looking kids [with] biggish heads and coarse, thick features.' . 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. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. "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. . The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. 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. . So what about polygamy? . Obviously, we would love to.. . hello . Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. lucky Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, . . . 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. . And then there are the more livable genetic conditions. "How do you keep track of that?" Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. 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. . "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . deficiency. LeBaron Jr. has been accused by three of his own sons, who purport to have DNA evidence obtained by saliva samples, of fathering four children with his own biological daughter. . _____. . David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. 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. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. 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. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. . . . 'They are totally helpless,' he says. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. 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. . . "Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. . 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. . . 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." . . 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. . "A Secretive Refrain: . "Another of Rugg's full sisters, Andrea Johnson, died in 1992 of complications of pre-eclampsia, a condition of pregnancy that was not treated until after the young girl, swollen with toxic fluid, was rushed to the emergency unit at University Hospital. . 11, p. 128, ". 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' (KUTV) Weeks after a Kingston polygamist clan member was charged in the death of her child, former members of that group are speaking out about what they say is a much bigger problem. "'I tried to get people to come, but nobody would listen,' says the mother, who left the group and her marriage after her sons were diagnosed with dwarfism. . ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. . Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. . The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene. From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. [i]n a secret church ceremony. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. . he says. 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. As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. . . It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. 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. The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. "I'm like, Really? 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. 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. "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. Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' One of her brothers married a woman whose grandmother is a sister to their father. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. . 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 . . ", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 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. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. 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. Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. Bad harm. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. . Why is this? So many young people.'. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. When this got around to his dad, his father packed up Snows belongings and left them in the room of a hotel owned by The Order. One is a first cousin. . ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' "He sent her to live in a coal yard with other polygamous wives and their many children in South Salt Lake, visiting her rarely and usually only to have sex, she testified. 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. . Elden also instituted the church law of one above the other, requiring members blind obedience to the churchs hierarchy of numbered men, with Elden being Brother Number One. . . 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. "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. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. . "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. . "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. Some would say that is because it takes generations for certain inbred recessive genetic traits to manifest. "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. "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. ". 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. "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. "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 Latter Day Church of Christ, is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. . Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. 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. 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.. . Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. 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. 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. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? The chickens are coming home to roost. One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. "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. In an office several hundred miles from where Young gave his speech, a 10-year . "Outside, people don't die that often, and usually they're really old.". 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