the FLDS has the highest known rate of a rare genetic disorder called "fumarase deficiency" that causes severe birth defects. "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. . It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. . ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. . Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. 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. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. Once free of the cult, Lu Ann, Allison and other ex-Order members have had to unlearn the hatred that was drilled into their heads. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. "'I tried to get people to come, but nobody would listen,' says the mother, who left the group and her marriage after her sons were diagnosed with dwarfism. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. Some feature more expensive-looking gravestones, and include, beyond names and dates, terms of endearment such as: "Sweet baby girl," "Our son," and "Heaven's very special child." She talked about how you cant associate with black people or anybody of a different race., Based on available evidence, including the accounts of numerous former Order members, the SPLC has designated The Order as a hate group under the category of `general hate.'. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." Have you also noticed all the genetic and other debilitating defects, deformities and diseases that comes along with your poisoned patriarchal plurality-of-wives club? . "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. Fumarase deficiency, however sensationalized, is not the only genetic disorder found here. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. . "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. . Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. . 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. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. . . KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. . 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. . "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. Tucker is another of Ortells many sons, though not from the favored wife, LaDonna. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. 'A lady comes in and helps her. Why is this? "Fast-forward . Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. . "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. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. One child born with an incomplete liver died. Those who did not make it into the UO were separated from their families, placed in patchwork homes of other UO "orphans," and told to repent. He estimates the test would . "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. 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.'. Eventually, I pull up to the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, where I find the baby cemetery. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. He also married a woman descended from polygamy. 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. . Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. 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. girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . "Tarby and a team of doctors from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson began researching the disease and soon discovered that fumarase deficiency was occurring in at least two other families living in the same isolated community that practiced an unusual custom. Elden had predicted that he would be resurrected from the dead, so clan members kept his body on ice for three days, to no avail. . If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. "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. In 2003, Order member Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking his first cousin, 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston, as his fourth wife. The brother missionaries have been in the habit of picking out the prettiest women for themselves before they get here, and bringing on the ugly ones for us; hereafter you have to bring them all here before taking any of them, and let us all have a fair shake. . There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. . From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. The stage was set for the appearance of the rare disease when their 12th child, Martha Jessop, married her second cousin, John Yeates Barlow, in 1923, according to LDS genealogy data and Colorado City historian Ben Bistline. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. "There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble because he was having children with these young girls, so he said, 'Well, I never had sex with themI used a turkey baster.'" ", (Greg Burton, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet: Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous groups," in "The Salt Lake Tribune," 25 April 1999, at: http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. Many children have had birth defects due to this inbreeding. . . They offer no support, no exit route and no programs for the people trapped inside polygamy endeavoring to escape these closed polygamous communities or compounds. _____. Kingston -- the late enigmatic leader and church prophet who built the 1,500-member Kingston clan into a multimillion-dollar business empire while allowing many of his purported 13 wives and dozens of children to survive on government assistance. 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. In addition to this issue, since the rulers . 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. . . Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. 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. I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. . "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. So what about polygamy? Black blood was the worst thing you can have, Jessica said, particularly since the Kingstons consider themselves to be the whitest of the white, descended directly from Jesus Christ and King David, the Middle Eastern origins of both men notwithstanding. July 1, 2020. . . 6.3M views 6 years ago Profiles by VICE S1 E23 Although the mainstream Mormon church abandoned polygamy over 100 years ago, many splinter groups across Utah still practice plural marriage. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. . They can't do anything by themselves. "Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. So they would hand them over to Aunt Martha, who was the midwife," he says. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. "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. In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. ". Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. . And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' Tarby. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. 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. 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. 13, p. 195, "We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they (non-Mormons) envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. "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. "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. One ex-Order member, who asked to be referred to as Scott, instead of his real name for fear of retribution by clan members, said hatred of gays was big in the Kingston clan, with the word f----- in frequent use. unavailable to researchers. . "While discussing health problems at a family gathering with some of my cousins wives, we discovered astonishingly that three out of four of us, all polygamy descendants, had borne a son with a clubfoot. . From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. 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. The two were playmates when they were boys. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah, an Incorporated Utah Non-profit Corporation Has a Mission to Promote Joyful Living, Rational Think)ing, and Responsible Behavior," July 2005, at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html) Obsessed with the purity of their bloodline and empowered by a sense of entitlement on par with the divine right of kings, the Kingstons have made incest the cornerstone of a self-serving theology that loathes non whites, fosters homophobia and abhors government authority. 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