Its ominous-sounding moniker, The Order, is a reference to the United Order, a quasi-utopian society proposed by LDS-founder Joseph Smith, and practiced in some Mormon communities under the leadership of early church president Brigham Young. The records of the marriages sealed at the Nauvoo Temple before the general exodus to Utah in the 1840s, may be the most important ones of all; yet, these are . If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. and cousins. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. 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). One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . Before the call ended, Young insisted that he didnt admit to any kind of incest or anything. When Intelligence Report inquired if Young thought there was anything wrong with first cousins getting married, Young opined that such issues were between the individuals involved and God. . "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. . 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. ("Doctrine & Covenants," Section 132, verses 55, 62-63), "Joseph Smith also testified an angel with a sword came to him many times and commanded him to practice polygamy or else he would lose his life. . . I'm driving around Short Creek with Alyssawho is in Boise, Idaho, where she is a college sophomorepiped in through the bluetooth-enabled speakerphone in the rental car I'd picked in Las Vegas the previous night. 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. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. greatly increases, medical experts say. . Former clan prophet John Ortell Kingston, who died in 1987, paid the Medicaid bills for a child born with severe birth defects after Utah investigators linked the wealthy father of more than 65 children to the baby. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. he says. "I'm like, Really? 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. We're sitting in Ron's large kitchen, eating a meal of homemade tomato sauce and sweet Italian sausage that his wife Geria retired marriage and family therapist originally from Hurleyville, NY, who he met six years ago on Zoosk!has prepared in a slowcooker. . . There are baby graves year that date back as earlier as the 1950s, potentially even earlier: many are unmarked. . He believed he had superior bloodlines.' As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. 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. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. That sister, too, dealt with a lot of respiratory problems with her kids, "because of the relation," Dawna explains. There is no sign. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . We would cause harm, he confessed. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. Pentecostal That apparently was John Ortell Kingston's intent, although most studies of first-cousin mating show their offspring test lower on IQ exams, Jorde says. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. 5, p. 22. states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . . . "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. "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. . "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. Everyone knows it's happening, few talk about it unprompted, it just sort of..is. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced . . This racist display was no one-off. 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. . . His brother, John Ortell Kingston, took over the leadership of The Order incorporated in the 1970s as the Latter Day Church of Christ. Desert Tech and its rifles have been featured on Fox News, Mythbusters, Daredevil and The Blacklist, among other TV shows. . "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. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. I am convinced they do. But by 2006, Dr. Theodore Tarby, of Arizona, had discovered at least 20 more children living with the condition in Short Creek, all within just blocks of each other. Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. . '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. . "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. . '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 the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. 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. my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? 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. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. . Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. . The son of Pauls sister Rachel herself a daughter of Ortell and LaDonna Kingston 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. According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. . Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. Additionally, ex-Order members tell of a reputed church prophecy of an End of the World War, an apocalyptic vision that foresees a bloody race war with the Kingstons as the ultimate victors, chosen by their Heavenly Father to rule the world for a millennium. 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, . There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. In it, black people come close to killing off the white race until they are countered by Native Americans, symbolized by a Red Horse, which gallops to the White Horses rescue. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. . Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year. 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. Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. . . "Like his father-in-law, John Y. Barlow became one of the towering patriarchs of the fundamentalist Mormon community and served as FLDS prophet from 1935 until his death in 1949. . . An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. Structural Birth Defects. . "There is no doubt in the mind of any expert interviewed by 'New Times' that the practice of polygamy combined with inbreeding has fostered the spread of fumarase deficiency. . The knowledge that one's children are likely to be born with conditions like this one does not prevent FLDS couples from becoming pregnant; instead, they see it as a responsibility and blessing to have many children. Wyler says he once saw a fumarase deficiency child suffer a seizure while she was sitting with her mother and two other children also suffering from the disorder. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. . In addition to this issue, since the rulers . This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. 'Maybe it will just self-destruct,' historian Bistline says of the fundamentalist church he quit 20 years ago because of a dispute over religious doctrine and property ownership. . "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. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. . . " . 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. "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. I pass the dairy, the zoo, the park, the former birthing clinic, the condemned high school built on a foundation of adobe bricks, and so on. . "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. 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 . 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. . Johnson maintained that The Orders vast array of businesses which includes a grocery store, pawn shops, a garbage disposal business, an insurance company, a politically-influential biofuels plant, and a high-end firearms manufacturer employs individuals of various racial and ethnic minorities. Known variously as Brother Paul, the leader, and the man on the watchtower by Order members, this unremarkable, balding middle-aged man reportedly has 27 wives and over 300 children. . . . ". "Every person carries some lethal genes. The lot is unmarked and unremarkable. This denial is hollow considering the record. 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. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' "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. "15 years ago, a strange-looking child suffering from severe physical maladies and acute retardation was brought into the office of [pedatric neurologist] Dr. Theodore Tarby. In a portion of Warren Jeffs' Priesthood Record a mostly dry document that details his every move and meeting one entry, a written transcription of an announcement made by Warren at lunch with his late father's family, stands out as particularly creepy. Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. "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. . He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. . Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. "And she's not the only one; three of her sisters married three of my brothers. Ron Rohbock, 64, who was kicked out of the FLDS in 2002 after serving on church security for decades at Warren and Rulon Jeffs' side, has a different answer. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 11, p. 128, ". It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. ". Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, . The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. . . The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. . A retired Arizona law enforcement officer, Browning is the president and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network and is in charge of security for the A&E show, where his wife Tawni works as the casting producer. 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. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. . Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. . . So many young people.'. . Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. July 1, 2020. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. . 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. In 2006, Warren Jeffs, then the president and prophet of the FLDS, was arrested and charged with accomplice rape, for just two of the underage marriages he had arranged. Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. . on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. A loyal Order member for years, he lost his faith and ended up leaving the Order over a curse of sorts, leveled at his family by LaDonna. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. "'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. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. There lives Ross LeBaron Jr., a descendant of another polygamous sect (separate from the FLDS but quite similar in practice) called the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. 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. 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