Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. [The Lord] had to institute another New and Everlasting Covenant which he gave to another 25 year old boy on the highest mountain east of Bountiful on the first day of the year, 1935. . _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. Members today wear normal modern clothing, although they are encouraged to be modest and keep a high standard of dress. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! Certainly if MORmON Jesus had done this, we would hear all about it from the LDS as *proof* that God was doing his modern work via MORmONISM, but alas there is no such manifestation ! "'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 brief review of the accomplishments of the Co-op produces an impressive spreadsheet with assets in excess of $200 million. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. . 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. . "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. Upon Ortells death in 1987, leadership passed to his son Paul Elden Kingston. Despite its on-going public relations effort to convince Americans that Mormons don't really support polygamy (and despite the belief of many devout Mormons that polygamy came from God as revealed church doctrine which will eventually be reinstated when Jesus returns to the Earth), a quarter of Americans surveyed also have expressed the opinion that most Mormons embrace the idea of plural marriage: "A . While engaged in that enterprise, he reportedly received an angelic visitation. Source: Twitter Jessica with her husband and three daughters. . However, the law of consecration has a purpose beyond self-sacrifice. And in 1999, David Ortell Kingston Jeremy Kingston's uncle was sentenced to the Utah State Prison for up to 10 years for committing incest with the 16-year-old niece who became his 15th wife. That's the big problem.' During the 1940s, Ortell worked on a dairy farm owned by the Co-op at Woodscross, Davis County, Utah, where he reportedly developed theories on genetics, theories he later decided could be used to purify his own family pedigree. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . [12] In 1977, Elden's brother Ortell Kingston began to file for legal recognition of the church later organized as The Latter Day Church of Christ. . . [6] Brooke Adams, Salt Lake Tribune, May 22, 2004. [8][3] There are approximately 3,500 members,[9] some of whom are known to practice polygamy. "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. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. 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. . . 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. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. 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. . . ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. "Her book . When the Lord chose Brother Elden through which to send this new covenant, all other covenants were thereby dissolved. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. "Every person carries some lethal genes. '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. [37], The Kingston family and other members of the LDCC have faced two lawsuits, one in 2006[38] and another in 2022[39] accusing members and the organization as a whole of sexual abuses, including pedophilia and underaged marriages, within their membership. It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. . In response to questions from the newspaper, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative. "The genetic defect has been traced back to one of the community's founding patriarchs, the late Joseph Smith Jessop, and the first of his plural wives, according to medical literature, the Mormon Church genealogy database and residents of the community familiar with Jessop and Barlow family histories. All went bareheaded and barefoot. . 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. It is the power of God through the law or covenant of consecration given to Brother Elden in 1935. Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. "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. . "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. . Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. . "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. . . ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 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, . ', "Aleck says the fact that so many people in the polygamist enclave are blood relatives of the founding Barlow and Jessop families 'shows the magnitude of the problem.'. Elden passed away from cancer in 1948 and was succeeded by his brother John Ortell Kingston (commonly known as Ortell). [19] For many years, members of the Co-operative lived in poor conditions, and those in need had no legal way to apply for assistance. Never miss a story. 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. 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. . . . "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. . From the previously-cited article, "Understanding Polygamy": "The polygamous Kingston family professes that their genealogy line traces back to Jesus Christ, and so they possess holy blood. "The widespread presence of the fumarase deficiency gene in the bloodlines of the founding families of Colorado City is going to make reaching any such goal extremely difficult. Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. . states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. 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. Kingston Clan. . "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. July 1, 2020. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. The Kingston Clan, also known as The Order is a Mormon based group that is far more like an organized crime family and cult than religious organization. Early persecution seems to have conditioned Kingston leaders to maintain the utmost secrecy, but third generation officers seem to use ignorance as a tool to enhance control of their followers, especially of women. '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. 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? This story has been shared 112,868 times. Elden theorized that living the law of consecration was still required, and he set forth to establish his own united order organization. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. Garrad's Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. Kingston Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter, This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 17:32. People in plural marriages and held above those aren't. People who are members of the Kingston family by blood are held up higher than members of the Clan who are not also blood members of the Kingston family. ". . the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. . "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. . He estimates the test would . "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. . The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. Jeremy Kingston was sentenced to a year in prison in 2004 for taking LuAnn Kingston, his cousin and aunt, as his fourth wife in 1994; their relationship began when he was 24 and she was 15. . 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. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. lucky [18][7], The Cooperative had its birth during the Great Depression when many families struggled immensely to provide for their families. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. The Kingston family owns an enormous amount of businesses in the Utah area which employ Kingston Clan members, and Merlin Kingston was no exception to this. The corporation produces goods and services that are used by members, and sold or traded to other cooperatives and to the public. _____. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. Assets are generally estimated to be in the range of $200 million, although one Colorado competitor gave an even more stratospheric guess, pegging the clan's wealth at $11 billion. he says. In addition, placing the law of consecration at the pinnacle of divine laws is inconsistent with scripture and restoration history. . First, the truth and the priesthood keys are dispensed from heaven to a prophet on earth. 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. That means the number of cases likely will grow. Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . There is no doubt about that at all. 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' . . They operate in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. "[52][46][53] In a recent lawsuit, ex-members allege that the WRE case was an example of the concept of "bleeding the beast." We specifically read that the law of consecration is designed to administer to the poor and the needy (D&C 42:35). He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. "The children afflicted with fumarase deficiency from these three marriages include the grandchildren of Dan Barlow and his brother, the late Louis Barlow, and Merill Jessop, a top aide to fugitive prophet Warren Jeffs. . The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. "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. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. 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. [5] Michael Janofsky, Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy, New York Times, February 27, 2003, Late EditionFinal Section A-1. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. It is also a place of child abuse (court cases verify), neglected Sister Wives due to Polygamist practices (former members report this), Incest (court cases verify), and spiritual abuse (former . _____. . 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' "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. Women and girls, after theyre married, submit to their husbands and men answer to higher-ranked men, the suit alleges. The scheme included filing for $512 million in federal renewable-fuel tax credits from 2010 to 2016 through a company named Washakie Renewable Energy LLC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. . "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. She suffered from. 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. With the dawn of the twenty-first century, lawsuits and education among Kingston followers would combine to create new obstacles, as leaders perpetuate this financially spiritual hybrid organization. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. Article continues below advertisement For the sisters, escaping polygamy is really real. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' [T]he one-wife system not only degenerates the human family, both physically and intellectually, but it is entirely incompatible with philosophical notions of immortality; it is a lure to temptation, and has always proved a curse to a people. breeding really functional? Sounds like I left a few out, he said after being reminded of how many children he had fathered in that family.[6]. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. For 5 episodes that aired on Viewpoint on Mormonism between 9/14-18, 2020, click these: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Interview with Doris Hanson Part 1 Part 2 By Eric Johnson Summary. . Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. . [40] In 2009, the then-Attorney General of Utah, Mark Shurtleff, claimed that child marriages within polygamous societies in Utah, such as the Latter Day Church of Christ, had "effectively stopped". . . Even the few highly educated people there . . 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. "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. According to Kingston teachings, this scripture should not be taken too literally, and all of the efforts commenced through Joseph Smith came to a dead halt in 1934, thereby necessitating Elden Kingston to initiate a new dispensation. . . . . Why is this? . Women, meanwhile, allegedly gain status by being pure of blood and obedient, becoming the first wives of higher-ranking numbered men, and bearing many children. Surely, there were too many deaths. "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. But it is unclear how such assets are exalting the poor or making the rich low. Your IP: [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. [10], Over the decades, the Cooperative has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive system with assets once estimated at over $150 million. Through diligent money management and hard work, the Davis County Cooperative Society became very financially successful. The trial of the man, David Ortell Kingston . "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. [14] Some of their secrecy might be attributed to a fear of arrest for living in plural marriages, as had happened in 19591960 when being investigated by the Davis County Grand Jury, which some members claimed was organized by LDS Apostles Mark E. Peterson and Spencer W. We cannot afford to neglect the possibility our ancestors practiced a form of marriage that was unhealthy and debilitating to our children, to us, and to society. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. [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. "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. [11] Some members had begun the practice of plural marriage years before the establishment of the cooperative. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. . Satan will try to stop the power of the Lord and that power is where the Lord has given his covenant of consecration and that is: to the Davis County Co-op of Bountiful, Utah. . Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. "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. . "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. [22][23] Currently the group claims that although different skillsets bring different financial outcomes, there is no homelessness within the DCCS, and internal programs exist for those experiencing financial poverty.[2]. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. The lone man suing said three Order men raped him when he was 16 or 17 and that when he left the group and announced he was gay, was tracked down and severely beaten by a group of boys acting at the direction of the Order, the lawsuit alleges.

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