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. Everyone knows it's happening, few talk about it unprompted, it just sort of..is. "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. 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. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. . Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. Ron Tucker went so far as to call his former brethren white supremacists, and ten times more racist than your run-of-the-mill skinhead. . . 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. . '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. "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. "Including Utah, 37 states outlaw first-cousin marriage. . "By the late 1990s, Tarby and his team had discovered fumarase deficiency was occurring in the greatest concentration in the world among the fundamentalist Mormon polygamists of northern Arizona and southern Utah. 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 . 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. Appointments & Access. . But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? . . Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? 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. lucky Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. . living in Colorado City and Hildale are blood descendants of the Barlows and the Jessops, says Benjamin Bistline, a lifelong resident of the area who has published a book . The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. . So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . "'Polygamy leads to sexual predation, and that leads to genetic problems,' says . He also married a woman descended from polygamy. . There is no sign. Three of his wives are his half-sisters. 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. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . . . "Dr. Vinodh Narayanan, a pediatric neurologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, says he is seeking funding to develop a test that would allow public health officials to collect voluntary blood samples from as many FLDS members as possible. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. . The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. . . 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. . . "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. requote from Steve's excellent post ! . 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. . The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. hello "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. The company was founded in 2007 with an investment from family members. An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. The two were playmates when they were boys. 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. my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. I am convinced they do. LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. Still more, rather cryptically, feature child-size palm and footprints. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' . " . 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? 'Most of what you print is lies, lies, lies.' Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. . Those affected by the genetic disorder suffer grand mal seizures and often have facial feature deformities and severe mental retardation, with IQs as low as 25. It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. . . Some of these marriages will include parents who both are carriers of the fumarase deficiency gene, making it certain that more children will be afflicted with the disease. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. 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. One man, who asks to remain nameless to protect his and his family's privacy, describes a lifetime of round-the-clock care and too-frequent hospital visits for his five sons. . WREs influence earned special scrutiny in February 2016 after the IRS, the EPA and other government agencies raided owner Jacob Kingstons house as well as The Orders bank and other locations, carting away bankers box after bankers box of records. Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. There have also been charges made that some plural wives and their children have . The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. . Lucky was the first to die in my generation. The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. . "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. 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. ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. That means the number of cases likely will grow. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. . . But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. Another is a first cousin. Two of her sisters married their first cousinsmen with whom they share the same grandfather; the sons of their father's second wife, who is their mother's full sister. ", ("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) . "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . . Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. Yeah, I believe in it, he 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 are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. for Nathanael Allred's baby. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. . . . 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. . "I'm like, Really? . The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. Among the polygamous Kingstons, a number of children have been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two uteruses but no Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. "It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are" before getting married or pregnant, she adds. "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. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. . From the previously-cited article, "Understanding Polygamy": "The polygamous Kingston family professes that their genealogy line traces back to Jesus Christ, and so they possess holy blood. Home births and the frequency of miscarriages and still-borns among the Kingstons have led to macabre legends of dead infants buried in Kingston back yards. We're sitting in Ron's large kitchen, eating a meal of homemade tomato sauce and sweet Italian sausage that his wife Geria retired marriage and family therapist originally from Hurleyville, NY, who he met six years ago on Zoosk!has prepared in a slowcooker. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. . . "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. Some outside the church have referred to the group as "the Kingston Clan" or the "Kingston Cult," although leaders believe that these terms are "inaccurate and derogatory." . This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' They got married and contacted the . Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. Okay, I have one legal wife, he said. . "There is no doubt in the mind of any expert interviewed by 'New Times' that the practice of polygamy combined with inbreeding has fostered the spread of fumarase deficiency. . "'All my life, my family told me I had to marry a Kingston,' says Rugg. . ozpoof . "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. . Dawna's eldest son is now dating a Centennial woman whom he recently found out is a distant cousin. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. 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. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. I pass the dairy, the zoo, the park, the former birthing clinic, the condemned high school built on a foundation of adobe bricks, and so on. . Bad harm. deficiency. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. 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. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' . They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. . Surely, there were too many deaths. ", (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 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. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. Many children have had birth defects due to this inbreeding. . "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. 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. 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.'. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. And the graveyard grew exponentially.". Wyler says he once saw a fumarase deficiency child suffer a seizure while she was sitting with her mother and two other children also suffering from the disorder. . If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". One child born with an incomplete liver died. . Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. . . One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. "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. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. "With no other options available, more FLDS families will be faced with the difficult burden of caring for children suffering with fumarase deficiency. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. . 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. "It's like any inbred disorder," Tarby says. "I know these people personally.'. 'The downside is that if you don't start with good genetics, and if there is baggage in the genes of the individual, inbreeding will uncover that baggage. 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. Two groups split when Dawna was growing up s salt LAKE Valley and... Come mormon god does not get on board with his own programs members do... 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