"Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. "'My guess is this man had used some of these inbreeding practices in his herd so he was probably in the camp that believed superior genetics could be propagated in a particular line,' Green says. 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. It is the power of God through the law or covenant of consecration given to Brother Elden in 1935. "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.' ("Doctrine & Covenants," Section 132, verses 55, 62-63), "Joseph Smith also testified an angel with a sword came to him many times and commanded him to practice polygamy or else he would lose his life. "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. Eldens father related that Elden told him that was ordained by J. Leslie Broadbent (Lorin Woolleys successor) in 1934, although precisely what that ordination represented is unclear. . [7] Some members of the church are also believed to practice consanguineous marriage, or marriage to relatives within the group. Accordingly, Elden became the first prophet of the Kingston Group and established the Davis County Cooperative Society. . . Photocopy in authors possession. "[52][46][53] In a recent lawsuit, ex-members allege that the WRE case was an example of the concept of "bleeding the beast." joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. . The SPLC estimates there are . A seventh son, Hyrum Dalton Kingston, is a polygamist but has not married incestuously, according to ex-members. . . "Some genes linked to conditions like microcephaly and dwarfism are 'autosomal recessive,' and are found among the 22-linked pairs of chromosomes that do not include the X and Y sex chromosomes, says Lynn Jorde of the University of Utah's Eccles Human Genetics Institute, a leading genetics research center. . I'd never heard of them, a polygamist, fundie cult where even 14 year olds could . and Privacy Policy. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. . The complaint against the Kingston Group also known as the Order was filed in Salt Lake City last week by 10 people, including Amanda Rae Grant, who starred in the A&E docu-series Escaping Polygamy.. This means all other covenants were of no effect through which source they can. The group has drawn legal attention before. . "'Incest as a policy or routine practice is rare,' says Melvin Williams, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and a leading expert in the study of kinship systems. "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. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. 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. . So, from the beginnings of Mormon Church history, we have LDS Elohim's hand of blessing placed upon the insidious institution of multi-wifing and forever-birthing. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. (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.Carolyn . . "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. "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. "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. 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. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. . v. Kingston, et al., Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, UT (2022)", "Fallout from Washakie fraud could cost polygamous Kingston Group members their businesses and homes", https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/07/29/fallout-washakie-fraud/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Latter_Day_Church_of_Christ&oldid=1137075084, Jason Kingston allegedly had a relationship with his half-sister Andrea Johnson, who became pregnant in 1992. He estimates the test would . 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.'. . . 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. . Because I fell down this rabbit hole and now so do you all. The Kingstons represent an intriguing branch on the Mormon fundamentalist tree. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . 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. Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. "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. . Readily accepted as a problem among mothers past the age of 35, it is rarely discussed as a problem when fathers are over 35, let alone 80. Daughters of men in the Co-op would be married off at young ages. . . A recently created critical website can be viewed atwww.kingstonclan.com. [7] Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS became members of the church and most retain dual membership in both organizations to this day. If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. That means the number of cases likely will grow. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . The Kingstons claim that Elden received a new dispensation is problematic in another way. 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . . "My dad had a thing that was supposed to shoot radio waves or something like that, that . "[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. Child life is destroyed. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. [15][16] The Grand Jury was described as "The polygamist hunting Davis County Grand Jury" by the Ogden Standard-Examiner in 1959. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! Even the few highly educated people there . provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "Fast-forward . [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. While they affirm that they now carry the torch first lit by Joseph Smith, their agenda focuses only on plural marriage and their own brand of united order. The accusers describe a patriarchal doctrine known as The Law of One Above Another, which they claim designates everyone a rank in the groups hierarchy. . Several charges of incest would eventually be leveled against various Kingston members. . 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. . "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. They offer no support, no exit route and no programs for the people trapped inside polygamy endeavoring to escape these closed polygamous communities or compounds. "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. Now, this might well be the case, with the . I am convinced they do. Article continues below advertisement For the sisters, escaping polygamy is really real. . "John Ortell Kingston was the first Kingston to experiment with incest, marrying and bearing children with two half-sisters and two nieces, according to numerous ex-members of the clan. . Various congenital and genital defects, dwarfism, fused limbs, fingernails lacking, mental illness and mental retardation, spina bifida, and microcephalous are some of the diseases and mutations. . "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. 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. [39], In 2016, the State of Utah with federal law enforcement raided various properties in connection with the Kingston family or Davis County Cooperative Society with the intention of finding welfare fraud. . Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. In the 1940s, members of the Co-op wore blue bib overalls. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. . . "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. "By the late 1990s, Tarby and his team had discovered fumarase deficiency was occurring in the greatest concentration in the world among the fundamentalist Mormon polygamists of northern Arizona and southern Utah. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . . So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. David Kingston was released from prison in 2003. . 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. 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. . 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. . Jacob O. Kingston, the company's CEO, pleaded guilty Thursday to 41 charges including money laundering, fraud, conspiracy and witness tampering and obstruction of justice, according to a court. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. [39] The 2022 complaint was filed by attorney, Roger Hoole,[39] an attorney known for representing ex-members of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Kingston Group is not affiliated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based on the Utah-Arizona line that is run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, who. . 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, . . Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. In addition, placing the law of consecration at the pinnacle of divine laws is inconsistent with scripture and restoration history. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. Consanguinity causes aggregate clusters of deleterious genes to collect in families, which then express themselves as rare recessive disorders like nephritis, cystic fibrosis, biliary artesia, albinism, short stature and many others. 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. . Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. "Medical experts say the incidence of the disorder will increase because the FLDS community is refusing to accept recommendations to reduce the likelihood of producing babies with fumarase deficiency.