Below are further horrific details of the Kingston clan's "God-given genetic calamity, brought to you courtesy of Joseph Smith's Mormonism, as reported in the "Salt Lake Tribune" article, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet": ". David Kingston is alleged to have married his 16-year-old niece Mary Ann Nelson, who attempted to run away but was apprehended and beaten by her father, John Daniel Kingston. . Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. Accordingly, Elden became the first prophet of the Kingston Group and established the Davis County Cooperative Society. Elden passed away from cancer in 1948 and was succeeded by his brother John Ortell Kingston (commonly known as Ortell). ", "C250 - Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee", "DCCS Self-Sustaining Policy, Contributions to the Community", "The Polygamist Accused of Scamming the U.S. Out of $500 Million", "Former WRE CEO testifies about money paid to DCCS Entities", "Jury Finds Los Angeles Businessman Guilty in $1 Billion Biodiesel Tax Fraud Scheme", "Polygamists Admit $512 Million Fraud for U.S. Fuel-Tax Credits", "CEO And CFO Of Utah Biodiesel Company And California Businessman Charged In $500 Million Fuel Tax Credit Scheme", "WRE Defendants arrested and awaiting trial", "Trial postponed for last defendant in fraud case involving members of the Kingston polygamous family", "Complaint and Jury Demand, Grant, et al. . [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. Early persecution seems to have conditioned Kingston leaders to maintain the utmost secrecy, but third generation officers seem to use ignorance as a tool to enhance control of their followers, especially of women. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) When asked to name his offspring by plural wife Mattingly Foster, Kingston came up with about five names before faltering, saying he was very nervous. After viewing a list of the children, he then attempted to name them but once more fell shortprompting the judge to supply the final child's name for him. One of the most controversial splinter groups of Mormonism, the Latter Day Church of Christ, has been led by members of the Kingston family since it was founded in 1935. In the 1940s, members of the Co-op wore blue bib overalls. "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. During the 1920s, hundreds of dissenters from the LDS Church gathered into specific groups across the Wasatch Front. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. 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. Sally Kingston, a wife of one of the brothers, and. Child life is destroyed. . Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? 'A lady comes in and helps her. . "But this is a very unlikely scenario for FLDS faithful, who practice a religious doctrine that requires men to be strictly obedient to religious leaders and requires women to give birth to as many children as possible to increase the sect's numbers. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. . 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. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. While his children and wife initially resisted his new religious position, they eventually joined him in asking their names to be removed from LDS Church records. The Kingstons represent an intriguing branch on the Mormon fundamentalist tree. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. [49] As part of the plea deal and restitution, the company forfeits rights to a number of assets including their bio-fuel plant in Plymouth, Utah. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. July 1, 2020. hello . 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' . Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? . . Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. Three others, including Grant, said they had to flee to escape such a fate. . Click to reveal '", (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) 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]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. The corporation produces goods and services that are used by members, and sold or traded to other cooperatives and to the public. [3] Charles Elden Kingston discourse, 1940 New Years Meeting, 8:40 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., 11; emphasis in original. ". and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. . When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. . Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. ", (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 promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. restricted in some polygamous sects, including FLDS groups in Colorado City, Arizona; Hildale, Utah; and West Texas, that force some of the young males to leave the communities . . ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). 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 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. [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. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. . Reportedly, Paul and his brother each have dozens of wives and hundreds of children. "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. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. The lone man suing said three Order men raped him when he was 16 or 17 and that when he left the group and announced he was gay, was tracked down and severely beaten by a group of boys acting at the direction of the Order, the lawsuit alleges. . Kingston was able to name only nine of his thirteen children by a second woman, Rachael Ann Kingston. "Until the test is available, Tarby says, the best prevention measure remains refraining from crossing Barlows, Jessops and their relations--who make up half the population of the polygamist enclave. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. "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. "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. Escaping Polygamy is an American documentary television series that premiered on December 30, 2014, on LMN.The show now airs on Lifetime, but can also be viewed on Tubi, and follows the work of three sisters who left the Kingston clan, a polygamous group based in Salt Lake City, Utah known as The Order, as they help family and/or friends break free of polygamy. 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 . "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. Gallup Panel survey [conducted in August 2006] show[ed] that Americans are much more likely to believe most Mormons endorse practicing polygamy than to believe most Americans support it. 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. . [39], In 2016, the State of Utah with federal law enforcement raided various properties in connection with the Kingston family or Davis County Cooperative Society with the intention of finding welfare fraud. "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. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office. _____. . 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of the mainstream church, which abandoned the practice in 1890 and now strictly prohibits it. ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. Because I fell down this rabbit hole and now so do you all. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. He prepared urine samples and sent them to the University of Colorado Science Center's Dr. Steve Goodman, a professor of pediatrics who runs a laboratory that detects rare genetic diseases. [Andrea] Moore-Emmett [author of 'God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped'] contends that [in polygamy] incest, statutory rape, torture, physical abuse, forced marriages, and trafficking of girls is rampant. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. "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. . They have been known for systemic inbreeding, child sex abuse, physical abuse, child labor, and tax evasion. ("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. . "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. That's the big problem.' . . . [41][42] Despite this, the latest suit alleges marriages as young as 16 within the Latter Day Church of Christ have continued. ". Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. lost the priesthood which had come down to them from the Prophet Joseph Smith. Article continues below advertisement For the sisters, escaping polygamy is really real. . . "The disease is not widely known about even in Colorado City, a place where even normally public events such as marriages are conducted in secret. ', "Aleck says the fact that so many people in the polygamist enclave are blood relatives of the founding Barlow and Jessop families 'shows the magnitude of the problem.'. 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. This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. Kingston began preaching polygamy amongst fellow members of the LDS Church and distributing pamphlets and the book he had co-written, Laman Manasseh Victorious: A Message of Salvation and Redemption to His People Israel, First to Ephraim and Manasseh. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. 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. "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. A brief review of the accomplishments of the Co-op produces an impressive spreadsheet with assets in excess of $200 million. . Kingston Clan. In fact more than half of today's Klans formed in the last three years. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. . It is the power of God through the law or covenant of consecration given to Brother Elden in 1935. Legitimate businesses, including those in the Cooperative, argued that Jacob hid the scheme from business partners as well as Co-op leadership. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. "Her book . 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. . Second, that prophet organizes his followers into missionary forces that dispense the truth to all the world, utilizing the priesthood to perform saving ordinances. . A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. 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. The two Kingston brothers and their business partner, Lev Dermen, are in jail awaiting trial, scheduled to start in July and last six weeks. . He interpreted his dream to mean that God approved of his leaving the Church. http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm, http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html, http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html, http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723. . . "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." Men make all decisions affecting her health. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. . According to Kingston teachings, this scripture should not be taken too literally, and all of the efforts commenced through Joseph Smith came to a dead halt in 1934, thereby necessitating Elden Kingston to initiate a new dispensation. Kingston members today generally claim that keys were received anew from heavenly messengers directly to Elden in 1935, although it appears he left no formal testimony to that effect. They are Utah-based, unlike the FLDS where the escapes are mainly Arizona-based. . . . . There is no doubt about that at all. Bearing in mind I'm not American and have only a vague knowledge of Mormonism, a video came across my youtube from a former member of the Kingston clan/the order and wow is this terrifying. [39] The 2022 complaint was filed by attorney, Roger Hoole,[39] an attorney known for representing ex-members of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. . v. Kingston, et al., Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, UT (2022)", "Fallout from Washakie fraud could cost polygamous Kingston Group members their businesses and homes", https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/07/29/fallout-washakie-fraud/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Latter_Day_Church_of_Christ&oldid=1137075084, Jason Kingston allegedly had a relationship with his half-sister Andrea Johnson, who became pregnant in 1992. . Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. [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. . So many young people.'. 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. "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. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. The Kingston family is quite real and is a polygamous unit. . While Charles W. Kingston was the first to oppose the Church, the primary mover in the Kingston Group was his son Elden. 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. The Kingston Clan is where Jessica, Andrea, and Shanell escaped over a decade ago. shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. 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. WRE has since become defunct. But it must needs be done in mine own way; and behold this is the way that I, the Lord, have decreed to provide for my saints, that the poor shall be exalted, in that the rich are made low (D&C 104:16). The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. on the history of the fundamentalist community. The State of Utah stated: "It was a specific investigation that we were approached by [federal law enforcement] to participate in." "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. Mormons who believe that polygamy is a heaven-sent doctrine that will eventually be re-implemented on Earth by God (current Church claims of non-use notwithstanding), have a friend in go-to LDS Apostle, Bruce R. McConkie, who confidently declared: "Obviously, the holy practice [of polygamy] will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium. It alleges sex trafficking, sexual battery and child abuse, and seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages. Eldens father related that Elden told him that was ordained by J. Leslie Broadbent (Lorin Woolleys successor) in 1934, although precisely what that ordination represented is unclear. Polygamy today is comprised of early Mormon polygamy descendants and these families are now interrelated by a factor impossible in monogamy. . thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. 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. All went bareheaded and barefoot. . he says. This denial is hollow considering the record. . This seemed to apply in my own kindred because those of us who left Mormonism and married outsiders are less riddled with the deleterious genetic legacy than relatives who married within the ancestral Mormon gene pool. "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. 'We do know there are biological hazards. Men and boys wore blue coverall-type suits tied with strings; women and girls wore plain blue denim dresses. . The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. . [8][3] There are approximately 3,500 members,[9] some of whom are known to practice polygamy. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. 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.. During the 1940s, Ortell worked on a dairy farm owned by the Co-op at Woodscross, Davis County, Utah, where he reportedly developed theories on genetics, theories he later decided could be used to purify his own family pedigree. Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. ". . 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. . 11, p. 128, ". . "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. '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. 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. According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. If these couples are . 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. Let's revisit the boastful words of Mormon Church Prophet John Taylor and Mormon Church Apostle Heber C. Kimball, both quoted earlier: -Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. . . Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. Much of what we have reviewed appears frivolous and unfounded, Gustafson said in an emailed statement. 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. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. . . "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. . my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? . . Video unavailable This video. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. "In polygamy . . . The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. . "John Ortell Kingston was the first Kingston to experiment with incest, marrying and bearing children with two half-sisters and two nieces, according to numerous ex-members of the clan. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) "Several Kingston offspring of incestuous couplings also have been born without fingernails, a disease that could be linked to a number of genetically caused abnormalities, although an exact diagnosis is impossible without closer study of medical records. And, "We cannot and will not condone or support anyone found to be engaged in any fraudulent behaviors. . 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. The Co-op members practiced plural marriage and abided by a rigid hierarchy of leadership and deference. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. "During this early period, polygamy was practiced secretly by the Mormon leadership, men who covertly preached and expanded polygamy while publicly deceiving the general Mormon population about the practice. '90% of the community is related to one side or the other,' said Bistline, a former member of the sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. . Through diligent money management and hard work, the Davis County Cooperative Society became very financially successful. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. 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, . This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. 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. We recall that Joseph Smith made no effort to implement the law of consecration while in Nauvoo (see D&C 105:34). With the dawn of the twenty-first century, lawsuits and education among Kingston followers would combine to create new obstacles, as leaders perpetuate this financially spiritual hybrid organization.