Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. . He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. . Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. Intelligence Report then read the names of women believed to be his wives four in all. This denial is hollow considering the record. Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. The Order can rightly claim discrimination by mainstream Mormonism, but this is due to its embrace of polygamy, which the LDS church officially abandoned in 1890 in order for Utah to become a state. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. "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. Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. living in Colorado City and Hildale are blood descendants of the Barlows and the Jessops, says Benjamin Bistline, a lifelong resident of the area who has published a book . _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. . "They were called the Second Warders and we were called the First Warders; we weren't supposed to hang out with kids from the Centennial group because they were wicked for having left," she says. . Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. . I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . D. Michael Quinn, former Brigham Young University professor, states, 'The Mormon practice of polygamy enabled men to marry daughters, nieces, cousins, granddaughters and former wives of other General Authorities.'. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . . "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. 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. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. . I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. The letter asserts that one of the earliest members of the church was a Native American man and that the Co-op, as it is sometimes called, has been the victim of prejudice and harassment by Utahs majority religion (i.e., the LDS church) because of the formers progressive ideas. This is all compounded by the split between the FLDS and an offshoot group of polygamists that moved to nearby Centennial Park following a disagreement over how the community should be governed, and by whom). Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. From an "Associated Press" news report, "Doctor: Birth Defects Increase in Polygamy Community": "A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border, according to a doctor who has treated many of the children. 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. The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. "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. 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. In the revelation, the Lord commands him to take virgins 'an hundredfold in this world' for the purpose to 'multiply and replenish the Earth' so 'they may bear the souls of men.' . The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. 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. . . 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. Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. The 43-year-old Kingston took the witness stand for the prosecution about 2:40 p.m. and is expected to answer questions through Thursday. It's also still rape with a foreign object, I remind us both unnecessarily. . The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. "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. 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. . It's the kids who are disproportionately handicapped as compared to the demographics of any other comparably small town. . 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. ", (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) . . 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. John Daniel Kingston seen here in 1999, pleading no contest to beating his 16-year-old daughter after she attempted to flee an arranged marriage with her uncle David, Kingstons brother. . 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . That sister, too, dealt with a lot of respiratory problems with her kids, "because of the relation," Dawna explains. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. ", (Joseph Carroll, "One in Four Americans Think Most Mormons Endorse Polygamy; Only 2% Think Most Americans Support Polygamy," by Gallup News Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 7 September 2006, at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e). . "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. 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. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. "I know these people personally.'. . . . They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. . Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. He was. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. . Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. . It is bordered to the north by a well-maintained lot where there sits a stately red brick home with UEP (United Effort Plan, the church trust which is now controlled by the state of Utah in the aftermath of Jeffs' conviction) spelled out in white brick on its south-facing side. 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. Her younger sister Emily thought it was a joke, too, until one day another Order kid told her, We cant play with you because the Tuckers are n------.. But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. . the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. . "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. . . We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. In the polygamist cult of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, cousins were encouraged to marry in order to preserve certain bloodlines. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. 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. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. Many of the souls interred here lived not longer than a day, some just two days, two weeks, or two years. Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. 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. : 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. He estimates the test would . . Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, with the help of her boyfriend Bryan. . 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. WREs influence earned special scrutiny in February 2016 after the IRS, the EPA and other government agencies raided owner Jacob Kingstons house as well as The Orders bank and other locations, carting away bankers box after bankers box of records. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. . Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? . . Jessica said she and other children of the Kingston clan a group also known as The Order, the Davis County Cooperative Society, and the Latter-Day Church of Christ dropped the N-bomb all the time, as did their parents. In a letter to the Intelligence Report responding to allegations made by former members, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative Society, claimed that The Orders foundational principles include the Golden Rule, and that the church rejects any form of racism or bigotry. Elden continued the tradition. "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. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. 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.'. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. But I do have children with other women., Asked if two women named were in fact his first cousins, Young paused, finally replying, I guess Im curious as to what youre trying to get at here.. . Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. [T]he one-wife system not only degenerates the human family, both physically and intellectually, but it is entirely incompatible with philosophical notions of immortality; it is a lure to temptation, and has always proved a curse to a people. "Have you ever heard of the term The Turkey Baster?" 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. "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. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. They're given the utmost attention and care because the FLDS faithful believe everything in this life is a test before entering the celestial kingdom, and caring well for all of Heavenly Father's children is part of that test. 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. LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. 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. "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. . . Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. . . Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' . "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. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. 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