'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. And in 1999, David Ortell Kingston Jeremy Kingston's uncle was sentenced to the Utah State Prison for up to 10 years for committing incest with the 16-year-old niece who became his 15th wife. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. He interpreted his dream to mean that God approved of his leaving the Church. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. [10], Over the decades, the Cooperative has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive system with assets once estimated at over $150 million. WRE has since become defunct. . . . They operate in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. By 1935, his followers began to move to Bountiful, Utah, intending to live under a United Order communal program as defined by Joseph Smith in the Doctrine and Covenants. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. "[44] Members claim they have been broadly and unfairly targeted by authorities for the negative actions of a small few. [28][29], During the first years of the Davis County Cooperative Society, Elden Kingston and his followers wore unique blue denim outer garments that led to people referring to them as "blue-coats." Jacob Kingston told prosecutors the company was capable of producing some amounts of biodiesel, but in no year did it ever produce more than 8.5 million gallons. . Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston -- John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell -- has been criminally charged with incest. _____, --How "God's Genes" Do Ugly Things: The Biological Attack on "Modern"-day Followers of Mormonism's Originally-"Revealed" Doctrine of Polygamy. "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. The suit was filed against the groups leader Paul Eldon Kingston and 21 other members. . Articles of Incorporation of the Davis County Cooperative Society, 7 February 1941. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Derman was found guilty of masterminding the scheme in March 2020. Kingston Clan. . . 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. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. . . "[2], According to a 2011 document prepared by the attorneys general of the states of Utah and Arizona, the church describes itself as emphasizing family values, education, self-sufficiency, and the belief that every child is a priceless blessing. ". "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. . They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. . In fact more than half of today's Klans formed in the last three years. . . And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. soon . Brigham Young waited until 1868, twenty-one years after arriving in Utah, to actively promote it, and John Taylor ceased emphasizing it shortly after becoming President of the Church. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. . Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. . "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. [17] That same year, Ardous Kingston Gustafson, a mother of four and founding Co-op member, was jailed on Christmas Eve when she could not produce membership lists that were to be used to target plural families for further arrest and harassment. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. . 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. It didn't find any. ", (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). 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. . [22][23] Currently the group claims that although different skillsets bring different financial outcomes, there is no homelessness within the DCCS, and internal programs exist for those experiencing financial poverty.[2]. The group sought to maintain Pure Kingston Blood by arranging marriages between cousins and other close relatives, and shunning relationships that werent between white people, the lawsuit alleges. . "[52][46][53] In a recent lawsuit, ex-members allege that the WRE case was an example of the concept of "bleeding the beast." "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . Jacob O. Kingston, the company's CEO, pleaded guilty Thursday to 41 charges including money laundering, fraud, conspiracy and witness tampering and obstruction of justice, according to a court. The Kingston Clan is where Jessica, Andrea, and Shanell escaped over a decade ago. "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. "It is Moore-Emmett's belief that the LDS Church who started polygamy in this country should take responsibility and provide financial aid and other resources for those polygamous families who have been abused. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. . 75.119.192.80 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. It appears my kinship group is suffering from clusters of rare recessive genes. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. The current leader of the Kingston Clan is Paul Elden Kingston, and it is reported that he has up to 27 wives (including three half-sisters) and some wives have as many as 18 children. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. The two Kingston brothers and their business partner, Lev Dermen, are in jail awaiting trial, scheduled to start in July and last six weeks. It is a common and intentional practice in the Order to require girls and women to submit sexually to their husbands even if the sexual submission is against their will because having children results in workers for the benefit of the Order, the lawsuit states. I am convinced they do. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. . Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. . Two weeks after is excommunication, Kingston had a dream wherein he believed he was visited by Jesus Christ and God the Father. "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. The Kingston family is quite real and is a polygamous unit. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. They own many businesses and have ties with hundreds of businesses here in Utah and our neighboring states. "Another of Rugg's full sisters, Andrea Johnson, died in 1992 of complications of pre-eclampsia, a condition of pregnancy that was not treated until after the young girl, swollen with toxic fluid, was rushed to the emergency unit at University Hospital. lost the priesthood which had come down to them from the Prophet Joseph Smith. The suit includes ten former members alleging the organization used marriages to "unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes". . Charles Zitting (one of Lorin C. Woolleys High Priest Apostles) introduced Kingston to plural marriage, causing Kingston to be cut off from the Church in 1929. . He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. In fact, the leaders of the Co-op just seem to be getting richer and the poor get essentially ignored. David Kingston was released from prison in 2003. "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. . ", "Utah investigated the polygamous Kingston Group for welfare fraud 2 years ago. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? . Not only were there possibly too few fathers making it easier for defects to clump in the large interrelated kindred but succeeding generations of children from these isolated rural Mormon towns married within a few kindred as well. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. "'The kids that I have seen have terrible seizure disorders and developmental delays,' says Dr. Aleck. He also married a woman descended from polygamy. Jeffs is following a long-established practice -- started by Smith 170 years ago -- of excommunicating those who do not strictly adhere to church leaders' commands. . 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. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. The Co-op members practiced plural marriage and abided by a rigid hierarchy of leadership and deference. . . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. . Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. on the flat hay fields that stretch from the edge of Woods Cross to the crusty shores of the Great Salt Lake, that John Ortell Kingston studied the genetics of in-line breeding. The groups, whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, are offshoots of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (The Church lost its authority to give covenants.) She suffered from. Article continues below advertisement For the sisters, escaping polygamy is really real. . ", (Aimee Larsen Stoddard, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems," 7 October 2010, under "Birth Defects in Mormon Fundamentalist Cult," posted by "halley, 20 February 2011, at: http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723) "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. . . "I know these people personally.'. . [40] In 2009, the then-Attorney General of Utah, Mark Shurtleff, claimed that child marriages within polygamous societies in Utah, such as the Latter Day Church of Christ, had "effectively stopped". Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . . Sally Kingston, a wife of one of the brothers, and. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. on the history of the fundamentalist community. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 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. "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. . . So, from the beginnings of Mormon Church history, we have LDS Elohim's hand of blessing placed upon the insidious institution of multi-wifing and forever-birthing. The group has drawn legal attention before. Kimball. Second, that prophet organizes his followers into missionary forces that dispense the truth to all the world, utilizing the priesthood to perform saving ordinances. People in plural marriages and held above those aren't. People who are members of the Kingston family by blood are held up higher than members of the Clan who are not also blood members of the Kingston family. "Then, as generations of polygamous Kingston children have been taught, they demurred to questions about their father. . . ', "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.'. "Marriages among first and second cousins have been common for decades in the community, where religious doctrine requires men to have at least three wives to gain eternal salvation. Tarby. [31][32][33] During this time, some non-members and ex-members began claiming the practice stemmed from theories of genetic purification held by past leaders. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. "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 early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. 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. . . "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. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. . _____. . . . . . [11] On February 7, 1941, the community founded by Elden Kingston officially declared themselves the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc. LuAnn Kingston, a former member of the clan who in 1995 at age fifteen was forced to marry her first cousin, shared: The joke used to be that if you werent married by 17, you were an old maid.[5], Within the Kingston Group, the primary polygamists are the immediate Kingston family and heirs. [14] Some of their secrecy might be attributed to a fear of arrest for living in plural marriages, as had happened in 19591960 when being investigated by the Davis County Grand Jury, which some members claimed was organized by LDS Apostles Mark E. Peterson and Spencer W. The chickens are coming home to roost. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. "Dr. Tarby, who routinely treats fumarase deficiency children at a state-funded clinic in Flagstaff, says, 'They are funny-looking kids [with] biggish heads and coarse, thick features.' "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. . "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. and councilmen.' The Kingston Group is not affiliated withthe 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 is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexually assaulting girls he considered brides. 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. . He faces up to 30 years in. "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. July 1, 2020. Tarby recounts a conversation he had with a member of the Barlow clan in which he tried to explain why so much fumarase deficiency was occurring among Mormon polygamists. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. J. Ortell Kingston aggressively pursued a financially-expansive agenda for the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc.[25] in the hopes of improving the financial condition of his followers. "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. [15][16] The Grand Jury was described as "The polygamist hunting Davis County Grand Jury" by the Ogden Standard-Examiner in 1959. Readily accepted as a problem among mothers past the age of 35, it is rarely discussed as a problem when fathers are over 35, let alone 80. The Kingston Group is believed to have a few thousand members, mostly in Utah and Idaho. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. We've received your submission. . "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. While engaged in that enterprise, he reportedly received an angelic visitation. "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. ", -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. Women and girls, after theyre married, submit to their husbands and men answer to higher-ranked men, the suit alleges. From the article, "Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions": "[Mormon] Church founder, Joseph Smith, said he received a revelation from God, which is still canonized Mormon scripture as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132. Children are allowed to attend public school and many go on to college. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . lucky [9][34], Active members and a recent independent research article by a professor from Santa Clara University have attributed the practice to "endogamous preference and the small size of the groups population". . "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. . He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. 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.
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