Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. . Jeremy Kingston was sentenced to a year in prison in 2004 for taking LuAnn Kingston, his cousin and aunt, as his fourth wife in 1994; their relationship began when he was 24 and she was 15. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) . . 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. Two weeks after is excommunication, Kingston had a dream wherein he believed he was visited by Jesus Christ and God the Father. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. 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. 'I really doubt that if we could tell them, you know, "This male has the condition and this female has the condition; you shouldn't mate," that wouldn't stop them,' he said. In recent years, former members have lobbied for law enforcement to take action against the sect. And the Genealogy Department advises genealogists to follow only their direct line; in this instance meaning only the wife who is their mother, not other wives of their father. They have been known for systemic inbreeding, child sex abuse, physical abuse, child labor, and tax evasion. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. In the 1940s, members of the Co-op wore blue bib overalls. 13:1). "The only long-term solution to the health crisis is for Barlows and Jessops to have children with spouses from outside the polygamist community. [46], In July 2019, Jacob Kingston, Isaiah Kingston, and two others pled guilty to participating in a fraud scheme masterminded by Lev Derman, a non-member and Armenian national. Source: Twitter Jessica with her husband and three daughters. . . "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. . They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. Tarby. The group has drawn legal attention before. 11, p. 128, ". "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. Elden passed away from cancer in 1948 and was succeeded by his brother John Ortell Kingston (commonly known as Ortell). "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. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. . "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. . 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. . . "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. 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. . At least six of Merlin's incestuously conceived children in turn married half-siblings, couplings that subsequently produced children with various deformities, says Rowenna Erickson, an ex-member who left her polygamous husband. "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. . he says. That leads to problems." Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. The Kingston Clan is a polygamous group with an estimated 10,500 members. 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. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. . For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' The Prophet Josephs priorities of missionary work, temple ordinances, proxy work for the dead, and feeding the poor appear to have been lost somewhere. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. "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. [The Lord] had to institute another New and Everlasting Covenant which he gave to another 25 year old boy on the highest mountain east of Bountiful on the first day of the year, 1935. . . The SPLC estimates there are . They can't do anything by themselves. [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. 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. Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of the mainstream church, which abandoned the practice in 1890 and now strictly prohibits it. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. [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. . . "State investigators found no wrongdoing among members of the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. "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. After all, polygamy is illegal in the US. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. If these couples are . . They operate in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. . . 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. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. They own many businesses and have ties with hundreds of businesses here in Utah and our neighboring states. "I know these people personally.'. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Several people also wonder if parts of 'Escaping Polygamy' is dramatized. "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . They are Utah-based, unlike the FLDS where the escapes are mainly Arizona-based. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. "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. . [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. [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. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. . 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. . . "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . . . and Privacy Policy. . The suit was filed against the groups leader Paul Eldon Kingston and 21 other members. ". The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. But now that it was appearing in two children in the same family was an indication it was being spread by a gene that was getting passed to the children by their parents. . hello The Kingstons are members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or the Kingston Order, which practices polygamy. . 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. . "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. . 5, p. 22. . . Three others, including Grant, said they had to flee to escape such a fate. Child life is destroyed. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. "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. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. [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. . 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. This resulted in his excommunication from the LDS Church in 1929. ", 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). WRE has since become defunct. lost the priesthood which had come down to them from the Prophet Joseph Smith. The current leader of the Kingston Clan is Paul Elden Kingston, and it is reported that he has up to 27 wives (including three half-sisters) and some wives have as many as 18 children. But in a 2News . . "Fumarase deficiency is caused by a lack of the fumarase enzyme, an essential component in a biological process called the Krebs cycle, which converts food into energy within each cell. . ", (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) "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. 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. Never miss a story. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. A seventh son, Hyrum Dalton Kingston, is a polygamist but has not married incestuously, according to ex-members. Paul continued to practice his fathers ideas regarding intra-family marriages. 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. . Because I fell down this rabbit hole and now so do you all. . Assets are generally estimated to be in the range of $200 million, although one Colorado competitor gave an even more stratospheric guess, pegging the clan's wealth at $11 billion. Photocopy in authors possession. . "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. They can't sit up. . 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. A recently created critical website can be viewed atwww.kingstonclan.com. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office. . 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. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. 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.'. . "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. [10], Over the decades, the Cooperative has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive system with assets once estimated at over $150 million.
