This resulted in his excommunication from the LDS Church in 1929. 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. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. . the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. . He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. 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. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. . "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. "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. . "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. "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. 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. 'A lady comes in and helps her. . 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. "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. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. 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. . . Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer. Despite its on-going public relations effort to convince Americans that Mormons don't really support polygamy (and despite the belief of many devout Mormons that polygamy came from God as revealed church doctrine which will eventually be reinstated when Jesus returns to the Earth), a quarter of Americans surveyed also have expressed the opinion that most Mormons embrace the idea of plural marriage: "A . . . The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women-stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout Christendom, and which had been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious. . We dont expect any of the claims to prevail in a court of law.. In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. 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. All went bareheaded and barefoot. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. . ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) . Articles of Incorporation of the Davis County Cooperative Society, 7 February 1941. 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. 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. When the Lord chose Brother Elden through which to send this new covenant, all other covenants were thereby dissolved. Reportedly, Paul and his brother each have dozens of wives and hundreds of children. "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. 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. 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. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . . . 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? my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? As a symbol of their renunciation of worldly goods, the outer clothing contained no pockets in which possessions could be carried, although later an inside pocket was provided for the sanitary measure of carrying a handkerchief. Child life is destroyed. . . Kingston was able to name only nine of his thirteen children by a second woman, Rachael Ann Kingston. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. 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. David Kingston was released from prison in 2003. "15 years ago, a strange-looking child suffering from severe physical maladies and acute retardation was brought into the office of [pedatric neurologist] Dr. Theodore Tarby. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest American hate group, and while the number of active KKK chapters declined in 2016, members of the Klan are trying to regain ground. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). 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. . . The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. The Kingstons represent an intriguing branch on the Mormon fundamentalist tree. . From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . . But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. . Photocopy in authors possession. Three others, including Grant, said they had to flee to escape such a fate. While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. . Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). lucky 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. . [11] Some members had begun the practice of plural marriage years before the establishment of the cooperative. . 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.. . . It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. 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. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. . . . KUTV A large police presence swarmed a well-known polygamous family's property in South Salt Lake Wednesday.A Department of Justice Spokesman Peter Carr confirmed to KUTV that it is involved in . "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. . 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. ", (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) They operate in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. . 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. [5] Michael Janofsky, Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy, New York Times, February 27, 2003, Late EditionFinal Section A-1. One outspoken Mormon matriarch who attended the same Sunday meeting for 50 years commented about the health of the polygamous descendants versus the monogamous descendants, 'You see it in the obituaries. If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. As people age the chances of children inheriting mutant genes increases. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. It is also a place of child abuse (court cases verify), neglected Sister Wives due to Polygamist practices (former members report this), Incest (court cases verify), and spiritual abuse (former . Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. The Kingston Group stopped proselytizing new converts when the cooperative became successful, and today they perform no missionary work of any kind. . Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. And, "We cannot and will not condone or support anyone found to be engaged in any fraudulent behaviors. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. "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. [7] Members of the Latter Day Church of Christ are also members of the Davis County Cooperative Society (a separate organization and legal entity) which practices the law of consecration and United Order. "The discoveries and research within my own kindred so alarmed me that I studied other descendants of polygamy to see if their families also suffered from crippling illnesses. 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. "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. . Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. . 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. . 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. [11] On February 7, 1941, the community founded by Elden Kingston officially declared themselves the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc. . . . 'Maybe it will just self-destruct,' historian Bistline says of the fundamentalist church he quit 20 years ago because of a dispute over religious doctrine and property ownership. . . Meanwhile, as Mormons wait patiently and faithfully for multi-wifery's official return, the words of their founding Church fathers sound praise to polygamy past, present and future: --The Mormon God's Declaration of Righteous Genetic Combinations: Monogamy is a Christian Blight on Humanity, While Polygamy is the Lord's Way to Produce Fresh, Virile Men; Good-Lookin' Women; and Super Strong Stock to Carry Civilization Into Eternity. . "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. . . . . If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene greatly increases, medical experts say. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. "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. . We've received your submission. That leads to problems." ", (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 By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. The SPLC estimates there are . "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. . Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a302ff8194befb0 died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. . Men and boys wore blue coverall-type suits tied with strings; women and girls wore plain blue denim dresses. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. . If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. [in order] to reduce competition for wives. In response to questions from the newspaper, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative. . . It may be that the Co-op is trying to help the poor in some anonymous way, but I have seen no evidence of it. 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. . A recently created critical website can be viewed atwww.kingstonclan.com. . 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. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. They have been known for systemic inbreeding, child sex abuse, physical abuse, child labor, and tax evasion. 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. He believed he had superior bloodlines.' Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. 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. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. . "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. They can't do anything by themselves. Interview with the owner of Desert Tech: The son of Paul's sister Rachel herself a daughter of Ortell and LaDonna Kingston [Nick] Young was the only current member of the Kingston clan, out of the many contacted for this story, who consented to a live, on-the-record interview. Several charges of incest would eventually be leveled against various Kingston members. 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. One brother, John Daniel Kingston, was taken to court for neglecting this children. Never miss a story. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. "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. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). . . . . ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. However, Grant claims she endured years of sexual abuse by a half-brother as a child. 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. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. . The accusers also claim that the group arranged child marriages so that girls would become pregnant and beholden to their husbands and the religious sect. A young child is also one of the accusers in the suit with allegations the child was raped by his or her father, who allegedly raped the mother. . when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. (The Church lost its authority to give covenants.) The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. ("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. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. "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. 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . 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. . In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. 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. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. . Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. unavailable to researchers. [19] For many years, members of the Co-operative lived in poor conditions, and those in need had no legal way to apply for assistance. Performance & security by Cloudflare. . [Mormon] [h]istorian B. H. Roberts, notes an eugenic attitude regarding polygamy: "'It was in the name of a divinely-ordered species of eugenics that Latter-day Saints accepted the revelation which included a plurality of wives. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. "I know these people personally.'. . Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. Supposedly, these sacrifices are part of the united order. "[44] Members claim they have been broadly and unfairly targeted by authorities for the negative actions of a small few.