By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. 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. Martha's husband was "Uncle" Fred Jessop, longtime Bishop to the FLDS people, who died in 2005 at 94, after being dragged from state to state by Warren Jeffs in what many ex-members believe was a transparent scheme of murder-by-stress: Dragging around a physically ailing, elderly man in need of constant medication is one way to kill a person without committing any outright murderous act, they say. 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. 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. . Connie Rugg [is] one of John Ortell's estimated 65 children and one of a handful of Kingston relatives who have fled the clan. . "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. . "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. . There is no sign. 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. Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. In an office several hundred miles from where Young gave his speech, a 10-year . . _____. By the time Joseph Smith Jessop died in September 1953, he already had 112 grandchildren, the majority of them directly descended from him and Yeates. . "The leaders must also understand the ethical considerations of continuing behavior, he says, that is bringing children into the world who suffer tragic deformities. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. . 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. . Why is this? 'They don't believe anything written about Colorado City [by outsiders, even medical experts] carries much truth,' Tarby says. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. The adult residents of Short Creek todayboth those still in the FLDS and those who have left the cultare mostly able-bodied, seemingly healthy individuals. But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. Dawna asks me. . . This denial is hollow considering the record. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. 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. IF polygamy really is justified in increased breeding, and since MORmON Jesus did institute such a plan according to MORmON history at one time, then how come MORmON god does not follow through and have a lot more females born in such marriages as would be required mathematically to make His Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. . and several polygamist men serve in local government positions, including as mayors . . "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. . . A rare neurological disorder characterized by water on the brain, muscular stiffness, adducted thumbs and aphasia, x-linked hydrocephalus is expressed only in men and carried by women. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . "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. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. 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. A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. Another is a first cousin. . . But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. "Tarby says he explained to [a] gathering at [a] Town Hall in Colorado City that the only way to stop fumarase deficiency in the community is to abort fetuses that test positive for the disease and for the community to stop intermarriages between Barlows and Jessops, Barlows and Barlows and Jessops and Jessops. http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09- http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html, http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! "'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. '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. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. "Nearly everyone in Colorado City, Arizona, and the adjacent town of Hildale, Utah, was a member of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that practices polygamy and had long encouraged multiple marriages between close relatives. "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. 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. They have no movement. Dawna's younger sister has a little boy with two clubfeet. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. . 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": ". These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. 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. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. . ", (Linda Walker, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics," under "Science as Culture," originally written in the fall of 1991, updated in the summer of 1999, citations included, at: http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html) . . People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. They can't sit up. . The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. . . "You have to either accept" the responsibility of caring for so many children with major healthcare needs "or let it destroy you," says this man, whose wife recently suffered a stroke. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. Another significant group is the Kingston Clan, also known as "The Order" and officially the Latter Day Church of Christ, with about 2000 members scattered throughout Utah. Reading the ignorant responses of the polygs - particularly in the face of the evidence all around them - makes my blood boil. Could my childish intuition that the adults and doctors lips were sealed against my questions involve family secrets; secrets relatives took to their graves rather than betray? These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. "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. . . . 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. There are also accounts of dead babies being buried at the Holy Spot, a tree-shrouded patch of land across the street from a grade school in Bountiful, just north of Salt Lake City. . The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. . 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. The lawyers words call to mind another heavenly curse, described in 2 Nephi, Chapter 5 of the Book of Mormon, where God caused a skin of blackness to come upon a group called the Lamanites, supposedly ancestors of Native Americans. . 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. Jonathan Turner, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, hypothesized exactly that, in an article published by the ABC news network in 2008. . . When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. . "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. He orchestrated all unions within the cult, which was maintained with classic mind control techniques, corporal punishment, fasting and bizarre dietary practices. 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. 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. One is a first cousin. During an interview with this reporter, Lu Ann Kingston, whose defiance of the cult led to the conviction of her former spiritual husband Jeremy, recalled that Order members saw intermarriage as a way to keep the bloodline pure., All outsiders are considered to be beneath Order members, she explained. Two are nieces. 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. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. Obviously, we would love to.. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. . Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. . Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. . mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. I am convinced they do. hello From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. One child born with an incomplete liver died. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. "Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding. ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 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). 3, p. 291, "I have noticed that a man who has but one wife, and is inclined to that doctrine, soon begins to wither and dry up, while a man who goes into plurality [of wives] looks fresh, young, and sprightly. The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. Julie left the cult at age 19. . . 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 bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring. 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. "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. 'Warren Jeffs is also trying to breed a perfect race.'. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. His seven sons and two daughters by LaDonna Peterson, the second of his 13 wives, are reputed to be the inner circle that runs the cult. . It is bordered to the north by a well-maintained lot where there sits a stately red brick home with UEP (United Effort Plan, the church trust which is now controlled by the state of Utah in the aftermath of Jeffs' conviction) spelled out in white brick on its south-facing side. The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. sw. htm>. Black people supposedly suffered from multiple scriptural curses, from the mark of Cain and Noahs curse on Ham in the Old Testament to the racist tenets of early Mormonism that have since been renounced or abandoned by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS or Mormon church. According to historian Brian Hales Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto, Brother Elden, as he was also known, had five wives and 17 children. "How do you keep track of that?" . . . 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. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. 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 . . SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. "Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. . Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. Various congenital and genital defects, dwarfism, fused limbs, fingernails lacking, mental illness and mental retardation, spina bifida, and microcephalous are some of the diseases and mutations. . 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. Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. . . The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. . Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . 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. . [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story, the corner of Canyon Street and Jessop Avenue, to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, an article published by the ABC news network, the fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints. . ", (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) 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. . . The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is a polygamous sect straddling the Utah and Arizona state lines; the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, are known collectively as Short Creek (pronounced "crick"). . "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. 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. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. 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. "I'm like, Really? "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. . Sex. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' . ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. Read more: Women Who Escaped a Polygamist Mormon Cult Share Their Story. . But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." Not one defect, but many. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. . "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. . And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. "Many of the parents did not want to have to deal with some of those children. "'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. . The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. 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. "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. That leads to problems." 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. . I could see that the leaders of The Order really did believe we had black ancestors, Ron explained, with Christy next to him, and his adult daughters Emily and Julie nearby. 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 . "There is too little empirical data of uncle-niece, half-brother/half-sister mating to draw firm conclusions about the IQ, survival rates, birth defects or longevity of their offspring, he says. "Today, six sons and two daughters of John Ortell and LaDonna have married at least 20 half-sisters, nieces and first cousins, giving birth to a family tree that twists and tangles, and, at times, withers with children born of genetic deficiencies. As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. 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