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. . "There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year," says Ron. Snow began dating men when he was 22. Ross LeBaron Jr. recently took to the Internet to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, as well as for LaVoy Finicum, the lone fatality in that ordeal. Tucker recounted the clans version of the apocalypse, the End of the World War, a riff on a prophecy some ascribe to Joseph Smith, called The White Horse Prophecy. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. . . As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. 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 first questions were about his background. That's the big problem.' . If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. According to experts and former Jeffs followers, the cause of the birth defect is clear: Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called Fumarase Deficiency. . Polygamy is outlawed in Utah, both by the states constitution, and in statute, where it is a third-degree felony, with a possible punishment of five years in prison. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). Blood tests showed the infant and 25 other children from numerous women were fathered by the same man, leading to one of the largest welfare fraud-settlements in Utah history. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. They predict the scale of the problem will increase dramatically in the future. 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.'. We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal 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. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. In one, Ortell warns that there is a movement afoot that wants to homogenize the people and make one race, by mixing all the races up. "Have you ever heard of the term The Turkey Baster?" . My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. "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. "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. "In polygamy . and councilmen.' . _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . . One is a first cousin. "The few dissenters in the community say the serious genetic problems that are beginning to surface are an indication that the closed FLDS society could eventually collapse. More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. There is no doubt about that at all. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. Dawna says that, when people refer to what's going on over in the Cane Beds, they say it's probably another turkey baster situation. . "Many of the parents did not want to have to deal with some of those children. 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. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. 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. 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. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' Dawna asks me. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. 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. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". . "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. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. He orchestrated all unions within the cult, which was maintained with classic mind control techniques, corporal punishment, fasting and bizarre dietary practices. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. . Some would say that is because it takes generations for certain inbred recessive genetic traits to manifest. requote from Steve's excellent post ! Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer, which produces sniper rifles and so-called bullpup rifles, The latter, unlike conventional magazine-fed rifles, have shorter barrels, with the guns action located behind the trigger. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. Structural Birth Defects. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. : 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. . . The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. "Other possible genetic traits include: microcephaly, a malformation of the skull in which the infant has a small head (ex-members say two children with microcephaly have died and eight others are institutionalized); blindness; spina bifida; Down syndrome; kidney disease and abnormal leg and arm joints. Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. . 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. Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. . These can include: Cleft lip or cleft palate; Heart defects, such as missing or misshaped valves; Abnormal limbs, such as a clubfoot; Neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, and problems related to the growth and development of the . Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' Even the few highly educated people there . "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . "You had a fairly diverse pool to start with, so only if that went on for a long time within this same population would you see real effects," he told ABC. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. 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. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. . . 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. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . 'We do know there are biological hazards. Accounts of clan babies being born with congenital defects and other problems abound, including dwarfism, albinism and children born minus fingernails or without genitals. The Latter Day Church of Christ, is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. . 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. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. ". In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. "The leaders must also understand the ethical considerations of continuing behavior, he says, that is bringing children into the world who suffer tragic deformities. and cousins. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. Since most Kingston children are born in homes under the scrutiny of trusted and secretive family midwives or clan leaders, documentation of medical abnormalities is rare, but not unprecedented. I hate to talk like this about my own genealogy,' Wyler says, 'but, literally, they are keeping all the breeding stock--the women, the [strictly faithful] men--and weeding out the disobedient men. sw. htm>. 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. 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . . Yeah, I believe in it, he said. According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. . The baby cemetery is a mess of overgrown weeds and dry, cracked dirt, home to hundreds of infant and toddler-size graves, not all of them marked. But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." "It's like any inbred disorder," Tarby says. . Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. . . They steer clear of banks,. 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. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. ". . and is expected to answer questions . greatly increases, medical experts say. Matt Browning seems less sure. She directs me to the houses she lived in after that: her stepdad Jim Jessop's home; then the rotten, roach-infested house she and her mother shared with nearly two dozen cousins and friends after being removed from Jim's following the Judgment. "'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. . The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. "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. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. . . Or leave. 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. '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. If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. . There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. sr. . Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. 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. Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . breeding really functional? . There are baby graves year that date back as earlier as the 1950s, potentially even earlier: many are unmarked. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. "A Secretive Refrain: . "The children afflicted with fumarase deficiency from these three marriages include the grandchildren of Dan Barlow and his brother, the late Louis Barlow, and Merill Jessop, a top aide to fugitive prophet Warren Jeffs. . Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. Children inherit disabling illnesses. . Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! According to church lore, The Order came into existence when founder Charles Elden Kingston saw Jesus in the mountains above the familys settlement in Bountiful, Utah, inspiring him to create the DCCS in 1935. Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. A stern disciplinarian, who in later years looked and dressed like a mortician, Ortell made incest a tenet of the clans faith, informed by his work breeding Holstein cows on the Kingstons dairy farm. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . Obviously, we would love to.. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. 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. The FLDS started out as a few fringe families in the late 1890s; as more seeking to follow the principal of plural marriage moved to the polygamous towns in the early-to-mid 20th century, the gene pool grew, but by the 90s, under the stricter control of prophet Rulon Jeffs (Warren's father), they were tightening up and selectively marrying and breeding in a sort of misfired eugenics experiment that ultimately yielded its own genetic disorder: fumarase deficiency (FD), otherwise known as Polygamist Down's. 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