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. "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . In addition, placing the law of consecration at the pinnacle of divine laws is inconsistent with scripture and restoration history. . . . . LDS scripture teaches that in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established (D&C 6:28; 2 Cor. Unfortunately, there are also numerous reports of members who lived in squalor in order to advance the monetary gains of the Co-op. BungieBungie.netBungieBungie 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. According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. "Every person carries some lethal genes. Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' 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. Even the few highly educated people there . _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. Through diligent money management and hard work, the Davis County Cooperative Society became very financially successful. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. It alleges sex trafficking, sexual battery and child abuse, and seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . John Gustafson, a representative of the Davis County Cooperative Society, an affiliate of the Kingston Group, disputed the lawsuits claims. He faces up to 30 years in. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. [8][3] There are approximately 3,500 members,[9] some of whom are known to practice polygamy. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? ", (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) . Men and boys wore blue coverall-type suits tied with strings; women and girls wore plain blue denim dresses. the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. 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. . [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . "If you look in the literature, you won't find another dozen cases in the world that have been reported," says Tarby. . Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. The Kingston family is quite real and is a polygamous unit. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. [21][26], The Latter Day Church of Christ is based on a belief in Jesus Christ and the restoration of his gospel in these latter days. . . . 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. . . . 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. 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. 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. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . 'They are totally helpless,' he says. . . . [32] He was arrested and pleaded "no contest" to the charge of child abuse and served seven months in jail. . From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . . My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . The word dispensation refers to two processes. 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. "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. Supposedly, these sacrifices are part of the united order. "There is no cure for the disease, which impedes the body's ability to process food at the cellular level. '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. "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. (KUTV) Weeks after a Kingston polygamist clan member was charged in the death of her child, former members of that group are speaking out about what they say is a much bigger problem.Carolyn . _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. This resulted in his excommunication from the LDS Church in 1929. Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. "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. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' . . [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. People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . "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. "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. . 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 . . 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.. 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. . . The group also teaches its members that only those with so-called pure blood will survive the apocalypse, according to the lawsuit. However, the law of consecration has a purpose beyond self-sacrifice. . . . "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. Children are allowed to attend public school and many go on to college. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. 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. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. . "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. 'They have the authoritarian structure necessary to keep this from happening, but I don't think they have the advanced thinking,' Aleck says. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. They operate in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. . "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. The complaint against the Kingston Group also known as the Order was filed in Salt Lake City last week by 10 people, including Amanda Rae Grant, who starred in the A&E docu-series Escaping Polygamy.. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. "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. Shuvrajit Das Biswas. . And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. [in order] to reduce competition for wives. The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. The Kingstons claim that Elden received a new dispensation is problematic in another way. . . Certainly if MORmON Jesus had done this, we would hear all about it from the LDS as *proof* that God was doing his modern work via MORmONISM, but alas there is no such manifestation ! . David Kingston was released from prison in 2003. "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. Members today wear normal modern clothing, although they are encouraged to be modest and keep a high standard of dress. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. 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. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. . "Her book . . 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). Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . "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. Now, this might well be the case, with the . 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. "'My guess is this man had used some of these inbreeding practices in his herd so he was probably in the camp that believed superior genetics could be propagated in a particular line,' Green says. . . 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. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. . "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. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. [4] Andrea Moore-Emmett, Gods Brothel (San Francisco: Pince-Nez, 2004), 88. . Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office. And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. While they affirm that they now carry the torch first lit by Joseph Smith, their agenda focuses only on plural marriage and their own brand of united order. Mormons can now see why American citizens passed laws intended to stop polygamy, a relic of unwise prophecy, laws continuously disregarded in Utah, a state controlled by the Mormon Church, if they will only look. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. Jeremy Kingston was sentenced to a year in prison in 2004 for taking LuAnn Kingston, his cousin and aunt, as his fourth wife in 1994; their relationship began when he was 24 and she was 15. "The widespread presence of the fumarase deficiency gene in the bloodlines of the founding families of Colorado City is going to make reaching any such goal extremely difficult. http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm, http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html, http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/walker.html, http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. "Until the test is available, Tarby says, the best prevention measure remains refraining from crossing Barlows, Jessops and their relations--who make up half the population of the polygamist enclave. . He interpreted his dream to mean that God approved of his leaving the Church. When the Lord chose Brother Elden through which to send this new covenant, all other covenants were thereby dissolved. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. . . They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. [3] Charles Elden Kingston discourse, 1940 New Years Meeting, 8:40 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., 11; emphasis in original. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. ozpoof "In May, the girl said she was belt-whipped by her father inside a Kingston-owned barn in Box Elder County for fleeing the marriage, and was abandoned in the home of another of John Daniel's wives. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. Carolyn regularly worked at and tended . ", 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). 'I try in my own, quiet way and tell them to outbreed. "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. "[52][46][53] In a recent lawsuit, ex-members allege that the WRE case was an example of the concept of "bleeding the beast." Rather than take steps to avoid the problem, the FLDS loyalists may believe it is their duty to accept their fate. . 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. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . [27] It is not affiliated with the mainstream LDS Church. Legitimate businesses, including those in the Cooperative, argued that Jacob hid the scheme from business partners as well as Co-op leadership. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. . 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. "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. So many young people.'. "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. "Wyler said it's all part of the community's religious system. I am convinced they do. "'The "gene" that Warren is really selecting for,' Wyler says, 'is the "obedience gene. 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. . . Among the participants was Charles W. Kingston. 75.119.192.80 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. Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' states that '[t]he [Utah] state legislature is consistently 90% Mormon . First, the truth and the priesthood keys are dispensed from heaven to a prophet on earth. lost the priesthood which had come down to them from the Prophet Joseph Smith. That means the number of cases likely will grow. "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. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. "[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. "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. Order girls are taught from birth that their primary purposes in life are to be obedient, a submissive wife, and to bear as many children as possible, the suit states. . ("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. . . 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. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. . . 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' 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? For 5 episodes that aired on Viewpoint on Mormonism between 9/14-18, 2020, click these: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Interview with Doris Hanson Part 1 Part 2 By Eric Johnson Summary. . "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? [39] The 2022 complaint was filed by attorney, Roger Hoole,[39] an attorney known for representing ex-members of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. '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. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. The corporation produces goods and services that are used by members, and sold or traded to other cooperatives and to the public. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. . The Lard apparently should have done genetics 101. The Kingston Group stopped proselytizing new converts when the cooperative became successful, and today they perform no missionary work of any kind. 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. . . Photocopy in authors possession. '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. 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. . . 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. Elden passed away from cancer in 1948 and was succeeded by his brother John Ortell Kingston (commonly known as Ortell). For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. . . "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . 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. . . Elden received the covenant of consecration and also the plan of temporal salvation.[2]. . 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. . . "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. 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. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. "I know these people personally.'. "Fast-forward . "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . 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. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). . . Mormons who believe that polygamy is a heaven-sent doctrine that will eventually be re-implemented on Earth by God (current Church claims of non-use notwithstanding), have a friend in go-to LDS Apostle, Bruce R. McConkie, who confidently declared: "Obviously, the holy practice [of polygamy] will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.

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