Carolyn regularly worked at and tended . "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. He interpreted his dream to mean that God approved of his leaving the Church. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. . Men make all decisions affecting her health. Accordingly, Elden became the first prophet of the Kingston Group and established the Davis County Cooperative Society. ", (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 Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer. . 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. They ought to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices; and it is not to be wondered at that they should envy those who so much better understand the social relations. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. [10], Over the decades, the Cooperative has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive system with assets once estimated at over $150 million. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. So many young people.'. . A small portion of the funds (less than 6%) were also used to purchase legitimate goods and services from businesses who provided them in "good faith". Eldens solo experience of receiving the priesthood keys and authority is truly singular and contrasts the pattern previously given by the Lord for important priesthood conferrals that require more than one witness. 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. . [15][16] The Grand Jury was described as "The polygamist hunting Davis County Grand Jury" by the Ogden Standard-Examiner in 1959. 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. [7] Some members of the church are also believed to practice consanguineous marriage, or marriage to relatives within the group. 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. . 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. . "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. . ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. . ("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. . ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. . . . Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. "Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. . In the 1940s, members of the Co-op wore blue bib overalls. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? . [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. 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. "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. Several people also wonder if parts of 'Escaping Polygamy' is dramatized. . "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. "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. After all, polygamy is illegal in the US. [54], The Utah holdings of Davis County Cooperative members were once estimated at more than $200 million,[9] and were believed to include the following:[55], For the church formally established by Joseph Smith in 1830, see. Exhibiting LGBTQ+ tendencies can indicate impure blood, according to the lawsuit. If these couples are . "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. . . 'All of a sudden [with] this one little baby, everything tightened up and she arched her back so hard her head was almost touching her toes,' Wyler says. Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. . The Kingston Clan is where Jessica, Andrea, and Shanell escaped over a decade ago. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. Kingston members today generally claim that keys were received anew from heavenly messengers directly to Elden in 1935, although it appears he left no formal testimony to that effect. . . This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. "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. ", (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). and councilmen.' . Articles of Incorporation of the Davis County Cooperative Society, 7 February 1941. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . "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. The Kingston Group is believed to have a few thousand members, mostly in Utah and Idaho. 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. 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 . 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. . when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. . 5, p. 22. At the time this inbreeding took place these prophets preached and practiced modern eugenic science, the science of controlling the traits of future populations through selective breeding for idealized traits like blond hair, blue eyes and tall stature. . 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. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? ", ("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) [49] As part of the plea deal and restitution, the company forfeits rights to a number of assets including their bio-fuel plant in Plymouth, Utah. . To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. From an "Associated Press" news report, "Doctor: Birth Defects Increase in Polygamy Community": "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. . . . 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' . The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. . This practice has been attributed to "endogamous preference and the small size of the groups population" according to recent research from the University of California. . 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. "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. . . "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. They are coming out of polygamous communities proliferating in Utah because Mormons are unable to face their history or follow sound marriage and childbirth practices. "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. 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". Believing that Elden received lost priesthood keys in 1935 also seems to contradict an 1837 scripture given to Joseph Smith stating that the priesthood had then (in 1837) been restored for the last time: For unto you, the Twelve, and those, the First Presidency, who are appointed with you to be your counselors and your leaders, is the power of this priesthood given, for the last days and for the last time, in the which is the dispensation of the fulness of times (D&C 112:30; see also D&C 27:13). . . If the FLDS faithful believed that Jeffs was relying on science to determine marriages rather than divine revelation from God, he could lose control of the church. The Prophet Josephs priorities of missionary work, temple ordinances, proxy work for the dead, and feeding the poor appear to have been lost somewhere. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Evidence exists that this gene pool foments a genetic and human catastrophe. They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. . It is the power of God through the law or covenant of consecration given to Brother Elden in 1935. . Women, meanwhile, allegedly gain status by being pure of blood and obedient, becoming the first wives of higher-ranking numbered men, and bearing many children. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. [27] It is not affiliated with the mainstream LDS Church. [5] Michael Janofsky, Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy, New York Times, February 27, 2003, Late EditionFinal Section A-1. Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, 2023 Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism, Joseph Smith Restores the Practice of Plural Marriage, Plural Marriage Commanded, Permitted, and Not Permitted, 1920sPolygamists Coalesce into an Organization, Lorin C. Woolley and His Council of Seven Friends, Independent Polygamists and Fundamentalists. 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. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. 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. . . 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. [10], According to his autobiography, Charles W. Kingston became disenchanted with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1926 because it abandoned plural marriage. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' . Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. . . [30] This practice lasted only a short time and was abandoned sometime before 1940. 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 . . The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. ". Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. The Kingston family first embraced polygamy around 1931 when, according to author Max Anderson, Charles W. Kingston helped produce a pamphlet that contained a version of Lorin C. Woolley's claims that former LDS Church President John Taylor had set aside a select group of men to carry on polygamy even as the church publicly disavowed the practice. Polygamy would have afforded the opportunity of producing from that consecrated fatherhood and motherhood the improved type of man the world needs to reveal the highest possibilities of the race, that the day of the super man might come, and with him come also the redemption and betterment of the race.'. The groups, whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, are offshoots of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . . . . . Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. . They can't do anything by themselves. So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. _____, --How "God's Genes" Do Ugly Things: The Biological Attack on "Modern"-day Followers of Mormonism's Originally-"Revealed" Doctrine of Polygamy. 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. [32] He was arrested and pleaded "no contest" to the charge of child abuse and served seven months in jail. 'I didn't dare talk about it,' she says. And the Genealogy Department advises genealogists to follow only their direct line; in this instance meaning only the wife who is their mother, not other wives of their father. . 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. . 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. . The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. . But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. . "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . . "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. . and Privacy Policy. "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. This resulted in his excommunication from the LDS Church in 1929. . Thanks for contacting us. . 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. lost the priesthood which had come down to them from the Prophet Joseph Smith. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. July 1, 2020. Some Kingston followers might justify their financial conglomerate by comparing it to the wealthy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. . "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. They operate in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures.
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