These men are living freely in the Cane Beds area. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. 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.'. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. "Some genes linked to conditions like microcephaly and dwarfism are 'autosomal recessive,' and are found among the 22-linked pairs of chromosomes that do not include the X and Y sex chromosomes, says Lynn Jorde of the University of Utah's Eccles Human Genetics Institute, a leading genetics research center. . [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. Only the FLDS prophet can arrange and perform polygamous marriages, and those marriages are taking place in a community in which almost everybody is related. "It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are" before getting married or pregnant, she adds. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. . From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. . 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. "Wyler said it's all part of the community's religious system. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. Indeed, the group was founded during the Great Depression as a communal religious organization where members dedicated their earnings and possessions to building the Kingdom of God on Earth, as one church document attests. . . But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." . for Nathanael Allred's baby. 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 man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. Obsessed with the purity of their bloodline and empowered by a sense of entitlement on par with the divine right of kings, the Kingstons have made incest the cornerstone of a self-serving theology that loathes non whites, fosters homophobia and abhors government authority. . lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. . Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. Fumarase deficiency, however sensationalized, is not the only genetic disorder found here. . . Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? '", (John Dougherty, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children," in "Phoenix New Times," 29 December 2005, at: http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html) Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. 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. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. . 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. 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. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. . This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. ". The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. . 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. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. . These disturbing accounts offer a look inside the lives of some early Mormon descendants. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. The Kingstons teach that they are descended from Jesus Christ and these incestous marriages are intended to keep the bloodline pure, but instead have resulted in numerous Clan members being born with disabilties or birth defects, and it's not really that surprising to note that at one point during the second season of Escaping Polygamy, one of 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. During an interview with this reporter, Lu Ann Kingston, whose defiance of the cult led to the conviction of her former spiritual husband Jeremy, recalled that Order members saw intermarriage as a way to keep the bloodline pure., All outsiders are considered to be beneath Order members, she explained. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' . Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. 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 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. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story, the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, an article published by the ABC news network, the fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints. [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. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. "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. "There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble because he was having children with these young girls, so he said, 'Well, I never had sex with themI used a turkey baster.'" "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. . " . "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. . The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. 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. As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. . 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. "'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. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. ', "Aleck says the fact that so many people in the polygamist enclave are blood relatives of the founding Barlow and Jessop families 'shows the magnitude of the problem.'. . . . When this got around to his dad, his father packed up Snows belongings and left them in the room of a hotel owned by The Order. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' Carolyn. . materials or even attempted to focus team and society have a kingston clan member was charged with birth defects increase becomes apparent similarities than. A simple urine test will reveal. "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. and is expected to answer questions . . According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. . 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. "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . . "You have to either accept" the responsibility of caring for so many children with major healthcare needs "or let it destroy you," says this man, whose wife recently suffered a stroke. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. . Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. "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. . ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. . . It's the kids who are disproportionately handicapped as compared to the demographics of any other comparably small town. 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. . . Sex. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. 'The downside is that if you don't start with good genetics, and if there is baggage in the genes of the individual, inbreeding will uncover that baggage. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, . It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. 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.'. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. . Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. "Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding. Meanwhile, Mary Ann Kingston, 22, has brought a $110 million civil suit against 242 Order members and 97 companies they operate, claiming that they share collective responsibility for abuse she. . First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. ", 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). The last infant grave marked in this cemetery is dated 2010; Warren issued an edict from prison banning sex in 2011, so few infants have been born since then (the few babies born each year are the product of institutionalized rape by cult-appointed seed bearers). Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. 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