This is why those laws need to be enforced. [11] On February 7, 1941, the community founded by Elden Kingston officially declared themselves the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc. . The two Kingston brothers and their business partner, Lev Dermen, are in jail awaiting trial, scheduled to start in July and last six weeks. . Naming a father could expose the truth, unveil secrets of paternity and subject the clan to further scrutiny from those who don't approve of incest. The organized Ku Klux Klan movement saw a boost in its membership in 2017. 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. . "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. 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. . . "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. "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. 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. Men make all decisions affecting her health. "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. While engaged in that enterprise, he reportedly received an angelic visitation. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. . "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. The brother missionaries have been in the habit of picking out the prettiest women for themselves before they get here, and bringing on the ugly ones for us; hereafter you have to bring them all here before taking any of them, and let us all have a fair shake. . "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. ", ("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) ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). A recently created critical website can be viewed atwww.kingstonclan.com. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. ", (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) They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. 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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. The groups, whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, are offshoots of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 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. . . "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. [10], According to his autobiography, Charles W. Kingston became disenchanted with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1926 because it abandoned plural marriage. 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 . 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.'. . [3] Charles Elden Kingston discourse, 1940 New Years Meeting, 8:40 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., 11; emphasis in original. 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' [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". "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . . [39], The organization continues to publicly denounce the practice of child marriage,[41][39] and maintains that marriages within the group are not coerced. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. . It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. I'd never heard of them, a polygamist, fundie cult where even 14 year olds could . 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 Members of a powerful polygamous group in Utah claim they were forced into underage marriages with their relatives to keep their blood pure, were raped by their husbands and had to perform child labor, according to a bombshell lawsuit. . John Gustafson, a representative of the Davis County Cooperative Society, an affiliate of the Kingston Group, disputed the lawsuits claims. ". "Victims suffer a range of symptoms, including severe epileptic seizures, inability to walk or even sit upright, severe speech impediments, failure to grow at a normal rate, and tragic physical deformities. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. . ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . After two years of investigating, they did not find any welfare fraud. . [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. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. Several charges of incest would eventually be leveled against various Kingston members. . Article continues below advertisement For the sisters, escaping polygamy is really real. "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. Your IP: My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . Like any fundamentalist Mormon sect, the Kingston Clan is very hierarchal. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. _____. [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. 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. When the Lord chose Brother Elden through which to send this new covenant, all other covenants were thereby dissolved. . He interpreted his dream to mean that God approved of his leaving the Church. . [21] Over the past 25 years, many members have become college-educated and live in middle-to-upper-middle-class homes throughout their communities. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. . "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. 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. Now, let's examine how "God-ordained" Mormon polygamy has wreaked unholy genetic havoc on its faithful followers: --Case Study on Polygamous Mormonism's Genetic Disease Striking Home: The Linda Walker Story. "'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. [15][16] The Grand Jury was described as "The polygamist hunting Davis County Grand Jury" by the Ogden Standard-Examiner in 1959. "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. "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. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. Although the official stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is against polygamy, several of the women's stories reveal that LDS leaders dismiss the deviant sects and blame the women who come to them for help. . 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. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. . "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. Members' financial holdings are believed to include: a 300-acre (1.2km2) dairy farm in Davis County; a 3,200-acre (13km2) farm in Tetonia, Idaho; a coal mine in Emery County;[24] 1,200 acres (4.9km2) in Terreton, Idaho; a cattle ranch and a discount store; Desert Tech Firearms; a grocery store; and a restaurant supply in many western cities including Tucson, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Boise, and Portland. . . The Kingstons are members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or the Kingston Order, which practices polygamy. . Child life is destroyed. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. [1], The Church . . Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. ", (Linda Walker, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics," under "Science as Culture," originally written in the fall of 1991, updated in the summer of 1999, citations included, at: http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html) 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. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. . Kingston was able to name only nine of his thirteen children by a second woman, Rachael Ann Kingston. "It was . . Since the natural male-to-female ratio is roughly 50-50, the ratio must be manipulated so that there are more females than males for polygamy to work. This seemed to apply in my own kindred because those of us who left Mormonism and married outsiders are less riddled with the deleterious genetic legacy than relatives who married within the ancestral Mormon gene pool. . "Researchers have identified a gene on the first chromosome that causes fumarase deficiency, but no test has been developed that could be used to identify individuals carrying the malady. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . : 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. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." "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. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women-stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout Christendom, and which had been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. . "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. The Kingston Clan is where Jessica, Andrea, and Shanell escaped over a decade ago. [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. . . 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. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . The Co-op members practiced plural marriage and abided by a rigid hierarchy of leadership and deference. This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. Men and boys wore blue coverall-type suits tied with strings; women and girls wore plain blue denim dresses. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. Click to reveal "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. . . 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. "He sent her to live in a coal yard with other polygamous wives and their many children in South Salt Lake, visiting her rarely and usually only to have sex, she testified. . Believing that Elden received lost priesthood keys in 1935 also seems to contradict an 1837 scripture given to Joseph Smith stating that the priesthood had then (in 1837) been restored for the last time: For unto you, the Twelve, and those, the First Presidency, who are appointed with you to be your counselors and your leaders, is the power of this priesthood given, for the last days and for the last time, in the which is the dispensation of the fulness of times (D&C 112:30; see also D&C 27:13). Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' 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. . First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. 11, p. 128, ". "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. Well, law enforcement often tends to look the other way in cases like polygamy, unless specific reports reach the agencies. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. 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. . 'A lady comes in and helps her. . . Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, 2023 Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, Joseph Smith Restores the Practice of Plural Marriage, Plural Marriage Commanded, Permitted, and Not Permitted, 1920sPolygamists Coalesce into an Organization, Lorin C. Woolley and His Council of Seven Friends, Independent Polygamists and Fundamentalists. This resulted in his excommunication from the LDS Church in 1929. . Photocopy in authors possession. on the history of the fundamentalist community. . "Nearly everyone in Colorado City, Arizona, and the adjacent town of Hildale, Utah, was a member of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that practices polygamy and had long encouraged multiple marriages between close relatives. A Kingston Family Primer. The chickens are coming home to roost. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. 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. '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. . The word dispensation refers to two processes. 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. . . . . . This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. "A Secretive Refrain: . Some of these marriages will include parents who both are carriers of the fumarase deficiency gene, making it certain that more children will be afflicted with the disease. Upon Ortells death in 1987, leadership passed to his son Paul Elden Kingston. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. . 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. . 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. Some Kingston followers might justify their financial conglomerate by comparing it to the wealthy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "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.' [1] Charles William Kingston, Autobiography, 2324; spelling and punctuation standardized. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. Legitimate businesses, including those in the Cooperative, argued that Jacob hid the scheme from business partners as well as Co-op leadership. A member of a polygamist clan today was convicted of incest with his 16-year-old niece, who testified that she had been forced to become his 15th wife. . 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. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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