The complaint against the Kingston Group also known as the Order was filed in Salt Lake City last week by 10 people, including Amanda Rae Grant, who starred in the A&E docu-series Escaping Polygamy.. . "Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston--John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell--has been criminally charged with incest. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. . The Kingston family is quite real and is a polygamous unit. ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. . "Other possible genetic traits include: microcephaly, a malformation of the skull in which the infant has a small head (ex-members say two children with microcephaly have died and eight others are institutionalized); blindness; spina bifida; Down syndrome; kidney disease and abnormal leg and arm joints. July 1, 2020. . "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . 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. "A Secretive Refrain: . Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. . . 'A lady comes in and helps her. Legitimate businesses, including those in the Cooperative, argued that Jacob hid the scheme from business partners as well as Co-op leadership. "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. 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"'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. 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). [7] Some members of the church are also believed to practice consanguineous marriage, or marriage to relatives within the group. [18][7], The Cooperative had its birth during the Great Depression when many families struggled immensely to provide for their families. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' . In recent years, former members have lobbied for law enforcement to take action against the sect. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. [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. Reportedly, Paul and his brother each have dozens of wives and hundreds of children. At the time this inbreeding took place these prophets preached and practiced modern eugenic science, the science of controlling the traits of future populations through selective breeding for idealized traits like blond hair, blue eyes and tall stature. . First, the truth and the priesthood keys are dispensed from heaven to a prophet on earth. . 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. Have you also noticed all the genetic and other debilitating defects, deformities and diseases that comes along with your poisoned patriarchal plurality-of-wives club? If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene greatly increases, medical experts say. "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. . and councilmen.' . Like any fundamentalist Mormon sect, the Kingston Clan is very hierarchal. 1,000 GOAL. . . 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. 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. . 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. "In May, the girl said she was belt-whipped by her father inside a Kingston-owned barn in Box Elder County for fleeing the marriage, and was abandoned in the home of another of John Daniel's wives. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. "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. . That leads to problems." [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]. . [47][48] The remainder of the transactions (over 94%) were to entities associated with Lev Derman, who prosecutors allege was the mastermind of the scheme. . Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. [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. Duringa 2020 trialfor a California businessman accused of carrying out a nearly $500 million biodiesel fraud scheme with a member of the Kingston Group, attorneys for the businessman called the Kingstons an incestuous polygamous group that is always scheming to defraud the US government in what the group calls bleeding the beast., A spokesman for the group, Kent Johnson, called those allegations categorically false.. 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. The Kingston Clan is where Jessica, Andrea, and Shanell escaped over a decade ago. "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. "With a well-thought-out plan," Hope After Polygamy explains, "she was successful; the judge granted her emancipation when she was 17 years old. . Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . The Kingston sisters were able to help her escape although Ava wanted to stay with her family, she knew she couldn't give up her sense of self and continue watching the cycle of abuse continue. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. One of the guilty pleas states they cycled fraud proceeds through a number of international partners and then back to Washakie's bank accounts, falsely claiming them as loans or profits. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. Order girls are taught from birth that their primary purposes in life are to be obedient, a submissive wife, and to bear as many children as possible, the suit states. This means it may be genetically unwise for children of the early leaders to marry other children of early leaders, even now; yet, this tendency still exists in Mormonism. . . he says. The accusers also claim that the group arranged child marriages so that girls would become pregnant and beholden to their husbands and the religious sect. . . . Tarby. 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. After all, polygamy is illegal in the US. "It was . . "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . [10], Over the decades, the Cooperative has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive system with assets once estimated at over $150 million. ozpoof Meanwhile, as Mormons wait patiently and faithfully for multi-wifery's official return, the words of their founding Church fathers sound praise to polygamy past, present and future: --The Mormon God's Declaration of Righteous Genetic Combinations: Monogamy is a Christian Blight on Humanity, While Polygamy is the Lord's Way to Produce Fresh, Virile Men; Good-Lookin' Women; and Super Strong Stock to Carry Civilization Into Eternity. 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. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. 'I said, "You're married to somebody you're related to. Aleck is a geneticist who participated along with Tarby and others in the groundbreaking study of several polygamous families with fumarase deficiency in the late 1990s. 75.119.192.80 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. The Kingston family first embraced polygamy around 1931 when, according to author Max Anderson, Charles W. Kingston helped produce a pamphlet that contained a version of Lorin C. Woolley's claims that former LDS Church President John Taylor had set aside a select group of men to carry on polygamy even as the church publicly disavowed the practice. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. [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. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. "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. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? The Kingstons represent an intriguing branch on the Mormon fundamentalist tree. hello 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. . . joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. on the history of the fundamentalist community. . 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. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' . The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. . Children are allowed to attend public school and many go on to college. "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? . Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. . 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. 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. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. The Kingstons claim that Elden received a new dispensation is problematic in another way. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. He interpreted his dream to mean that God approved of his leaving the Church. . "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. 5, p. 22. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. . [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. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a302ff8194befb0 "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. Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. . 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. [30] This practice lasted only a short time and was abandoned sometime before 1940. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. Men rise in prominence by being obedient and pure of blood and by having large families that can produce a lot of money and workers for the group, the suit continues. In fact, the leaders of the Co-op just seem to be getting richer and the poor get essentially ignored. 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. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. 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. 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. [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. . Click to reveal They have no movement. . [Mormon] [h]istorian B. H. Roberts, notes an eugenic attitude regarding polygamy: "'It was in the name of a divinely-ordered species of eugenics that Latter-day Saints accepted the revelation which included a plurality of wives. It alleges sex trafficking, sexual battery and child abuse, and seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages. 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. Polygamy would have afforded the opportunity of producing from that consecrated fatherhood and motherhood the improved type of man the world needs to reveal the highest possibilities of the race, that the day of the super man might come, and with him come also the redemption and betterment of the race.'. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. . . "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. 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. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. 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. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. . [2] Also known as the LDCJC,[3] the Kingston Clan, and The Order,[4][5][6] it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more. "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. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. . 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, . These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. ", "Utah investigated the polygamous Kingston Group for welfare fraud 2 years ago. . 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. . . All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. . . . . That's the big problem.' But it must needs be done in mine own way; and behold this is the way that I, the Lord, have decreed to provide for my saints, that the poor shall be exalted, in that the rich are made low (D&C 104:16). "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. Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. [31][32][33] During this time, some non-members and ex-members began claiming the practice stemmed from theories of genetic purification held by past leaders. [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. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. [13][verification needed], The Latter Day Church of Christ is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a presence in Bountiful, Utah. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. But women who are disobedient and fail to bear children including because they miscarry face ostracism, the lawsuit claims. Why is this? Men and boys wore blue coverall-type suits tied with strings; women and girls wore plain blue denim dresses. : 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. And it is my purpose to provide for my saints, for all things are mine. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . BungieBungie.netBungieBungie . "Medical experts say the incidence of the disorder will increase because the FLDS community is refusing to accept recommendations to reduce the likelihood of producing babies with fumarase deficiency. . . . [39] In 2007, the group told Deseret News that it was encouraging its members to wait until their partners were 18 to marry them,[41][43] with one member reporting that "we do encourage them to be 18 now". 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. . 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. . Three others, including Grant, said they had to flee to escape such a 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. "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. '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. Sounds like I left a few out, he said after being reminded of how many children he had fathered in that family.[6]. He also married a woman descended from polygamy. and Privacy Policy. . 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. 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. "Fast-forward . 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. [3] Charles Elden Kingston discourse, 1940 New Years Meeting, 8:40 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., 11; emphasis in original. 11, p. 128, ". . . [7], Plural marriage is practiced by some members of the LDCJC and members make their own choice in who they marry. "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. . . . . This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. . Jacob Kingston told prosecutors the company was capable of producing some amounts of biodiesel, but in no year did it ever produce more than 8.5 million gallons.
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