. . I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. 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. We specifically read that the law of consecration is designed to administer to the poor and the needy (D&C 42:35). Paul continued to practice his fathers ideas regarding intra-family marriages. 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. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. . Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. 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. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. . 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. "Fast-forward . . ". . breeding really functional? . . Interview with the owner of Desert Tech: The son of Paul's sister Rachel herself a daughter of Ortell and LaDonna Kingston [Nick] Young was the only current member of the Kingston clan, out of the many contacted for this story, who consented to a live, on-the-record interview. 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. . He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. In the l950s, research doctors thought we were one of the few families in the world with this form of nephritis, known as Alports syndrome. [i]n a secret church ceremony. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. . 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. 1,000 GOAL. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest American hate group, and while the number of active KKK chapters declined in 2016, members of the Klan are trying to regain ground. . "Her book . Men and boys wore blue coverall-type suits tied with strings; women and girls wore plain blue denim dresses. They can't do anything by themselves. Carolyn regularly worked at and tended . . Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. Tarby. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. [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. . 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' "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. "Community historian Ben Bistline said most of the community's 8,000 residents are in two major families descended from a handful of founders who settled there in the 1930s. . "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. . "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. BungieBungie.netBungieBungie "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. . "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . . 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. . . '", (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) "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. . 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". 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 Group is not affiliated with the 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. A young child is also one of the accusers in the suit with allegations the child was raped by his or her father, who allegedly raped the mother. . "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. . . 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). "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. 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. "Then, as generations of polygamous Kingston children have been taught, they demurred to questions about their father. . "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. lucky But in a 2News . . '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. "When ancestors are revered as prophets and kings, it is difficult to admit or examine the possibility of this legacy. 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. . [1] Charles William Kingston, Autobiography, 2324; spelling and punctuation standardized. . An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. . "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. It gets pretty bleak when it gets that close.' . ozpoof [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. . . 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 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". One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. "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. Unfortunately, there are also numerous reports of members who lived in squalor in order to advance the monetary gains of the Co-op. The Prophet Josephs priorities of missionary work, temple ordinances, proxy work for the dead, and feeding the poor appear to have been lost somewhere. . . . Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. . They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. And, "We cannot and will not condone or support anyone found to be engaged in any fraudulent behaviors. Elden theorized that living the law of consecration was still required, and he set forth to establish his own united order organization. The Kingston Group is believed to have a few thousand members, mostly in Utah and Idaho. 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. "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. . 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.'. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. . This is why those laws need to be enforced. A seventh son, Hyrum Dalton Kingston, is a polygamist but has not married incestuously, according to ex-members. "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. Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? 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.. . "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. During the 1920s, hundreds of dissenters from the LDS Church gathered into specific groups across the Wasatch Front. on the flat hay fields that stretch from the edge of Woods Cross to the crusty shores of the Great Salt Lake, that John Ortell Kingston studied the genetics of in-line breeding. We dont expect any of the claims to prevail in a court of law.. . . 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. Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. [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. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. . The word dispensation refers to two processes. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' 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 . "It is important that Mormons fight the tendency to discount history and the actions of their leaders in favor of a faith- promoting history while neglecting important facts. This practice has been attributed to "endogamous preference and the small size of the groups population" according to recent research from the University of California. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a302ff8194befb0 . Surely, there were too many deaths. . When the Lord chose Brother Elden through which to send this new covenant, all other covenants were thereby dissolved. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. "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. And in 1999, David Ortell Kingston Jeremy Kingston's uncle was sentenced to the Utah State Prison for up to 10 years for committing incest with the 16-year-old niece who became his 15th wife. [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. "[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. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. July 1, 2020. Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) After two years of investigating, they did not find any welfare fraud. ", 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). [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. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. "In polygamy . They are Utah-based, unlike the FLDS where the escapes are mainly Arizona-based. 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. 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. This resulted in his excommunication from the LDS Church in 1929. 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. . Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? . While engaged in that enterprise, he reportedly received an angelic visitation. Members today wear normal modern clothing, although they are encouraged to be modest and keep a high standard of dress. 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