. . Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? . And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. . . 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. . 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, . Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. "'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. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. . . ("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. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. 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. . Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. 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. . ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) 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. Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer, which produces sniper rifles and so-called bullpup rifles, The latter, unlike conventional magazine-fed rifles, have shorter barrels, with the guns action located behind the trigger. . Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . . The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. 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. It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. . Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. . The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. KUTV A large police presence swarmed a well-known polygamous family's property in South Salt Lake Wednesday.A Department of Justice Spokesman Peter Carr confirmed to KUTV that it is involved in . "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. 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. He estimates the test would . "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. Dawna asks me. I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. The chickens are coming home to roost. Some would say that is because it takes generations for certain inbred recessive genetic traits to manifest. . . In a letter to the Intelligence Report responding to allegations made by former members, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative Society, claimed that The Orders foundational principles include the Golden Rule, and that the church rejects any form of racism or bigotry. . In addition to this issue, since the rulers . "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. "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. The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. Even the few highly educated people there . . Before the call ended, Young insisted that he didnt admit to any kind of incest or anything. When Intelligence Report inquired if Young thought there was anything wrong with first cousins getting married, Young opined that such issues were between the individuals involved and God. [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. _____. "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. 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. . "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series Escaping Polygamy, remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring. . We would cause harm, he confessed. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. . . Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. "'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. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. If the FLDS faithful believed that Jeffs was relying on science to determine marriages rather than divine revelation from God, he could lose control of the church. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. 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. Johnson maintained that The Orders vast array of businesses which includes a grocery store, pawn shops, a garbage disposal business, an insurance company, a politically-influential biofuels plant, and a high-end firearms manufacturer employs individuals of various racial and ethnic minorities. FOX 13 . So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. . There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. ", (Aimee Larsen Stoddard, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems," 7 October 2010, under "Birth Defects in Mormon Fundamentalist Cult," posted by "halley, 20 February 2011, at: http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723) 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. 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. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. Tarby. . Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. Just under eight miles southeast of Short Creek is an area called Cane Beds, Arizona. Ron Rohbock, 64, who was kicked out of the FLDS in 2002 after serving on church security for decades at Warren and Rulon Jeffs' side, has a different answer. Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal 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. on the history of the fundamentalist community. . There was also testimony, during one hearing, that someone in the Kingston clan wanted to blow up the courthouse. There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. . 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. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. 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. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. (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 know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. 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. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' . 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. D. Michael Quinn, former Brigham Young University professor, states, 'The Mormon practice of polygamy enabled men to marry daughters, nieces, cousins, granddaughters and former wives of other General Authorities.'. . 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. 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. . We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. . Former Order members tell of babies being born nearly every week in the church. The company was founded in 2007 with an investment from family members. Tucker is another of Ortells many sons, though not from the favored wife, LaDonna. "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. "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. . ". . Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. . I wonder aloud. greatly increases, medical experts say. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. . Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. "Then, as generations of polygamous Kingston children have been taught, they demurred to questions about their father. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. In it, black people come close to killing off the white race until they are countered by Native Americans, symbolized by a Red Horse, which gallops to the White Horses rescue. It is bordered to the north by a well-maintained lot where there sits a stately red brick home with UEP (United Effort Plan, the church trust which is now controlled by the state of Utah in the aftermath of Jeffs' conviction) spelled out in white brick on its south-facing side. The knowledge that one's children are likely to be born with conditions like this one does not prevent FLDS couples from becoming pregnant; instead, they see it as a responsibility and blessing to have many children. . Obviously, we would love to.. She is guiding me all around town, following my route, turn by turn, on Google maps. 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. Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. "Until the test is available, Tarby says, the best prevention measure remains refraining from crossing Barlows, Jessops and their relations--who make up half the population of the polygamist enclave. If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. Jonathan Turner, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, hypothesized exactly that, in an article published by the ABC news network in 2008. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. 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. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. . . Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." 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 . . ", ("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) 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. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. Or leave. 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