"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. . ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. The group has drawn legal attention before. 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. 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. [17] That same year, Ardous Kingston Gustafson, a mother of four and founding Co-op member, was jailed on Christmas Eve when she could not produce membership lists that were to be used to target plural families for further arrest and harassment. [21][26], The Latter Day Church of Christ is based on a belief in Jesus Christ and the restoration of his gospel in these latter days. 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 . . . . 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. Jacob Kingston pleaded guilty to 41 charges, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aiding/assistance in filing a false claim, money laundering and obstruction. 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. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . . . 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. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. "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. [Andrea] Moore-Emmett [author of 'God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped'] contends that [in polygamy] incest, statutory rape, torture, physical abuse, forced marriages, and trafficking of girls is rampant. Reportedly, Paul and his brother each have dozens of wives and hundreds of children. '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. Paul continued to practice his fathers ideas regarding intra-family marriages. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. Below are further horrific details of the Kingston clan's "God-given genetic calamity, brought to you courtesy of Joseph Smith's Mormonism, as reported in the "Salt Lake Tribune" article, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet": ". thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. "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. [54], The Utah holdings of Davis County Cooperative members were once estimated at more than $200 million,[9] and were believed to include the following:[55], For the church formally established by Joseph Smith in 1830, see. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. The Prophet Josephs priorities of missionary work, temple ordinances, proxy work for the dead, and feeding the poor appear to have been lost somewhere. and councilmen.' The suit includes ten former members alleging the organization used marriages to "unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes". "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office. The State of Utah stated: "It was a specific investigation that we were approached by [federal law enforcement] to participate in." Charles Zitting (one of Lorin C. Woolleys High Priest Apostles) introduced Kingston to plural marriage, causing Kingston to be cut off from the Church in 1929. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. Indeed, regardless of facing crushing federal government opposition to polygamous inbreeding, true-blue Mormons remain convinced that you can't keep a good man of God down To them, polygamy will be coming back some day, with sizable numbers of the faithful flock confident that its eugenic genetics will return by order of Joseph's Jesus. 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. "Two years later, a pair of geneticists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., flew to Utah where they hoped to stage a seminar for Kingston family members about the dangers of incest and birth defects, and, presumably, gain permission to study the clan. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. [43] Responding to child marriage allegations in September 2022, the organization told The Guardian that "current policy prohibits plural marriage for members under 18" and "once an individual has made a decision on who to marry, members are encouraged to seek the blessing of their parents, family and/or church leaders, but to say that one individual chooses or heavily influences who will marry who is entirely inaccurate". ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. "My dad had a thing that was supposed to shoot radio waves or something like that, that . This is why those laws need to be enforced. 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. . "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. . The Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes the Kingston clan as an " incest and white supremacy " group for its practices outlined in Escaping Polygamy, which include teaching children to not associate themselves with non-white people and, as mentioned by the lawsuit, marrying underage children off to family members of The Order. . Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). . 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. . _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. . The Bear Clan's Kevin Walker told Global News on Wednesday that while the organization is still actively hitting Winnipeg streets, the way they operate has changed due to COVID-19. . "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. In the 1940s and 50s, Kingston followers designed and wore unique outer garments, the wearing of which led other people to refer to them as blue-coats. Men and boys wore a blue coverall-type suit tied with strings, while women and girls wore plain blue dresses. requote from Steve's excellent post ! 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. Men make all decisions affecting her health. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. 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. . . Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. Daughters of men in the Co-op would be married off at young ages. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" . . They are coming out of polygamous communities proliferating in Utah because Mormons are unable to face their history or follow sound marriage and childbirth practices. "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. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. . The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. . . Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. . 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. These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. "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. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. 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. "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. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' A seventh son, Hyrum Dalton Kingston, is a polygamist but has not married incestuously, according to ex-members. . If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. Several people also wonder if parts of 'Escaping Polygamy' is dramatized. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a302ff8194befb0 . . The Kingston Group is believed to have a few thousand members, mostly in Utah and Idaho. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. Kingston began preaching polygamy amongst fellow members of the LDS Church and distributing pamphlets and the book he had co-written, Laman Manasseh Victorious: A Message of Salvation and Redemption to His People Israel, First to Ephraim and Manasseh. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. [3] Charles Elden Kingston discourse, 1940 New Years Meeting, 8:40 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., 11; emphasis in original. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. . . "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. . " "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. 75.119.192.80 "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. . . "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. . "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 her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. . BungieBungie.netBungieBungie Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. As a symbol of their renunciation of worldly goods, the outer clothing contained no pockets in which possessions could be carried, although later an inside pocket was provided for the sanitary measure of carrying a handkerchief. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. 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. The Latter Day Church of Christ,[1] is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. 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. living in Colorado City and Hildale are blood descendants of the Barlows and the Jessops, says Benjamin Bistline, a lifelong resident of the area who has published a book . Let's revisit the boastful words of Mormon Church Prophet John Taylor and Mormon Church Apostle Heber C. Kimball, both quoted earlier: -Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. A recently created critical website can be viewed atwww.kingstonclan.com. "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. on the history of the fundamentalist community. [23] The group claims no preference for any particular family or surname stating members join every year "from a variety of different backgrounds and surnames. . . Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? . [4] Andrea Moore-Emmett, Gods Brothel (San Francisco: Pince-Nez, 2004), 88. . "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. The trial of the man, David Ortell Kingston . . It may be that the Co-op is trying to help the poor in some anonymous way, but I have seen no evidence of it. Cases of fumarase deficiency have shown up in the FLDS communities in Colorado City and Hildale, and doctors believe that the incidence of the condition in these communities will increase in coming generations. Even the few highly educated people there . Shuvrajit Das Biswas. [45] Members allege to have been targeted for audit at a rate over 9x the published IRS average for the general population, with no pattern of fraud being found outside of a couple of bad-actors. . 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. . ozpoof They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. Brigham Young waited until 1868, twenty-one years after arriving in Utah, to actively promote it, and John Taylor ceased emphasizing it shortly after becoming President of the Church. . From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . All went bareheaded and barefoot. "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. Child life is destroyed. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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IF polygamy really is justified in increased breeding, and since MORmON Jesus did institute such a plan according to MORmON history at one time, then how come MORmON god does not follow through and have a lot more females born in such marriages as would be required mathematically to make His J. Ortell Kingston aggressively pursued a financially-expansive agenda for the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc.[25] in the hopes of improving the financial condition of his followers. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. . lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . . The chickens are coming home to roost. 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. Tarby. 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. 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. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. . "FLDS marriages, Wyler and other community experts say, are an extension of a breeding program that began with Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in the 1830s. [49] As part of the plea deal and restitution, the company forfeits rights to a number of assets including their bio-fuel plant in Plymouth, Utah. After two years of investigating, they did not find any welfare fraud. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. A small portion of the funds (less than 6%) were also used to purchase legitimate goods and services from businesses who provided them in "good faith". . All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. . John Gustafson, a representative of the Davis County Cooperative Society, an affiliate of the Kingston Group, disputed the lawsuits claims. 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. ", "Utah investigated the polygamous Kingston Group for welfare fraud 2 years ago. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . . Members today wear normal modern clothing, although they are encouraged to be modest and keep a high standard of dress. . The Kingston family is quite real and is a polygamous unit. "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. [1] Charles William Kingston, Autobiography, 2324; spelling and punctuation standardized. "There is too little empirical data of uncle-niece, half-brother/half-sister mating to draw firm conclusions about the IQ, survival rates, birth defects or longevity of their offspring, he says. . Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. . Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use . 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. 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. "During this early period, polygamy was practiced secretly by the Mormon leadership, men who covertly preached and expanded polygamy while publicly deceiving the general Mormon population about the practice. 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 . "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. The Doctrine and Covenants admonishes the Saints to look to the poor and the needy, and administer to their relief that they shall not suffer (D&C 38:35). . "State investigators found no wrongdoing among members of the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. She suffered from. 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. 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. . "[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. Performance & security by Cloudflare. . Connie Rugg, one of Ortells plural wives remembered: [Ortell Kingston] experimented inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.[4] Ortell desired to perfect his own bloodline and implemented practices that encouraged marriages of close relatives. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. . "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . [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. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. 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. 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. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. "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.' The Kingston Group is not affiliated withthe 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 is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexually assaulting girls he considered brides. . . 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. . . 'A lady comes in and helps her. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. "A Secretive Refrain: . [20] Long-time leader John Ortell Kingston lived in a small one-story clapboard house in Salt Lake City up until the time of his death in 1987. "'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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. "Finally exposed in the news, the facts of life inside [the Mormon offshoot Kingston clan's] religious/cult compound are stunning Mormons, Utahans, the nation, and the world. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow.