Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. 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. Just under eight miles southeast of Short Creek is an area called Cane Beds, Arizona. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. "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. . It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. 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. 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. 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. . In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). By the time Joseph Smith Jessop died in September 1953, he already had 112 grandchildren, the majority of them directly descended from him and Yeates. 13, p. 195, "We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they (non-Mormons) envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. . "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. But in a 2News . These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. [i]n a secret church ceremony. Home births and the frequency of miscarriages and still-borns among the Kingstons have led to macabre legends of dead infants buried in Kingston back yards. . "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. . 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. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . She is guiding me all around town, following my route, turn by turn, on Google maps. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. Children inherit disabling illnesses. 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 Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. . . Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. "They were called the Second Warders and we were called the First Warders; we weren't supposed to hang out with kids from the Centennial group because they were wicked for having left," she says. "Today, six sons and two daughters of John Ortell and LaDonna have married at least 20 half-sisters, nieces and first cousins, giving birth to a family tree that twists and tangles, and, at times, withers with children born of genetic deficiencies. . Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. 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.'. . The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. . Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. . He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. . Bad harm. on the flat hay fields that stretch from the edge of Woods Cross to the crusty shores of the Great Salt Lake, that John Ortell Kingston studied the genetics of in-line breeding. Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. "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. . Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. . I wonder aloud. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. 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 ! They got married and contacted the . 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. From the article, "Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions": "[Mormon] Church founder, Joseph Smith, said he received a revelation from God, which is still canonized Mormon scripture as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. But The Orders critics say that cult members see nothing wrong with bilking the government, a time-honored tradition among FLDS sects, gleefully referred to as bleeding the beast.. ", (Greg Burton, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet: Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous groups," in "The Salt Lake Tribune," 25 April 1999, at: http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html Jessica said she and other children of the Kingston clan a group also known as The Order, the Davis County Cooperative Society, and the Latter-Day Church of Christ dropped the N-bomb all the time, as did their parents. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. "Experts say the number of children afflicted in the FLDS community is expected to steadily increase as a result of decades of inbreeding between two of the polygamous sect's founding families--the Barlows and the Jessops. . The chickens are coming home to roost. : About half of the 8,000 people living in the towns are blood relatives of two of the founding families that settled in the 1930s on the desolate high desert plateau against the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. . Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. "Many of the parents did not want to have to deal with some of those children. 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. '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. "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. Black people supposedly suffered from multiple scriptural curses, from the mark of Cain and Noahs curse on Ham in the Old Testament to the racist tenets of early Mormonism that have since been renounced or abandoned by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS or Mormon church. . . Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. The Order can rightly claim discrimination by mainstream Mormonism, but this is due to its embrace of polygamy, which the LDS church officially abandoned in 1890 in order for Utah to become a state. Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. 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. . Convinced they are breeding a pure white master race, they blame the mother if a deformed baby is born then preach she was unrighteous or unclean. 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 . One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . . 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. So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. One of her brothers married a woman whose grandmother is a sister to their father. Her younger sister Emily thought it was a joke, too, until one day another Order kid told her, We cant play with you because the Tuckers are n------.. Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. I owe my children and all children who risk becoming the next unwitting victims of this tragic genetic legacy the best information regarding the prevention of this lethal family inheritance that I can find. 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.'. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. The first questions were about his background. "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.". and last updated 1:46 PM, Feb 24, 2021. 5, p. 22. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). . "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. 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. As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. . "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' "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. And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. Its ominous-sounding moniker, The Order, is a reference to the United Order, a quasi-utopian society proposed by LDS-founder Joseph Smith, and practiced in some Mormon communities under the leadership of early church president Brigham Young. It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. "The disease is not widely known about even in Colorado City, a place where even normally public events such as marriages are conducted in secret. . . "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. ", (Joseph Carroll, "One in Four Americans Think Most Mormons Endorse Polygamy; Only 2% Think Most Americans Support Polygamy," by Gallup News Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 7 September 2006, at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e). Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. . "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. Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. A stern disciplinarian, who in later years looked and dressed like a mortician, Ortell made incest a tenet of the clans faith, informed by his work breeding Holstein cows on the Kingstons dairy farm. . "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. Carolyn Yvonne Kingston was born in 1938 in Elmo, Utah, to Charles Elden Kingston, and his first wife Ethel Gustafson, so she was the daughter of the first prophet of the Kingston Clan. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. . Young told Intelligence Report that his company has sold weapons, with the approval of the U.S. State Department, to governments in Europe and the Middle East, Saudi Arabia being one. "Then, as generations of polygamous Kingston children have been taught, they demurred to questions about their father. "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 discoveries and research within my own kindred so alarmed me that I studied other descendants of polygamy to see if their families also suffered from crippling illnesses. . 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. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. "Her half-brother is still married to another half-sister (whose parents also were half-sister and brother) and are still members of the Kingston's order. A loyal Order member for years, he lost his faith and ended up leaving the Order over a curse of sorts, leveled at his family by LaDonna. . . I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. . But given that the Kingstons command an estimated 6,000 adherents, boast a business empire reportedly worth as much as $1 billion and have outlasted myriad bouts with law enforcement and the press, these dreams of world domination may be less delusional than they first seem. Jeffs is following a long-established practice -- started by Smith 170 years ago -- of excommunicating those who do not strictly adhere to church leaders' commands. We would cause harm, he confessed. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' . 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. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. [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. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. That sister, too, dealt with a lot of respiratory problems with her kids, "because of the relation," Dawna explains. Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? . . . Julie left the cult at age 19. That means the number of cases likely will grow. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. . "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. Surely, there were too many deaths. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. . If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. . . "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. 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. 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. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. . 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