Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We dont expect any of the claims to prevail in a court of law.. . In fact more than half of today's Klans formed in the last three years. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. "It is important that Mormons fight the tendency to discount history and the actions of their leaders in favor of a faith- promoting history while neglecting important facts. . ", 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). . . An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. . . when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. . "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. . Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). Men rise in prominence by being obedient and pure of blood and by having large families that can produce a lot of money and workers for the group, the suit continues. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. '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. 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. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . 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. . That means the number of cases likely will grow. In the l950s, research doctors thought we were one of the few families in the world with this form of nephritis, known as Alports syndrome. In response to questions from the newspaper, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative. Connie Rugg, one of Ortells plural wives remembered: [Ortell Kingston] experimented inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.[4] Ortell desired to perfect his own bloodline and implemented practices that encouraged marriages of close relatives. Although the official stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is against polygamy, several of the women's stories reveal that LDS leaders dismiss the deviant sects and blame the women who come to them for help. ("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. . . . My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. 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. When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. . 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. . . Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. They have no movement. 'They just don't worry about the effects of intermarriage.'. They can't sit up. These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. . Second, that prophet organizes his followers into missionary forces that dispense the truth to all the world, utilizing the priesthood to perform saving ordinances. [7], Plural marriage is practiced by some members of the LDCJC and members make their own choice in who they marry. . In their own words, as quoted in a sister article that asks the question, "Is Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?" . "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 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. This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . . Well, law enforcement often tends to look the other way in cases like polygamy, unless specific reports reach the agencies. He estimates the test would . A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. [39] In 2007, the group told Deseret News that it was encouraging its members to wait until their partners were 18 to marry them,[41][43] with one member reporting that "we do encourage them to be 18 now". (The Church lost its authority to give covenants.) "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. . Thanks for contacting us. This is a humane coping strategy devised to deal with a dilemma that devastated a woman taught from birth her only value was in the number of children she bore for the Kingdom of God. . 1,000 GOAL. 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 . . "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? 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". . This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. [31][32][33] During this time, some non-members and ex-members began claiming the practice stemmed from theories of genetic purification held by past leaders. Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. "Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene for a debilitating condition called fumarase deficiency. . They operate in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. "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. The group also teaches its members that only those with so-called pure blood will survive the apocalypse, according to the lawsuit. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' it is the only popular religion there,", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Deseret News," 6 August 1862, "This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans, . It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. 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). Exhibiting LGBTQ+ tendencies can indicate impure blood, according to the lawsuit. Some 42 different Klan groups were active in 22 . . These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. "[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 fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. "Finally exposed in the news, the facts of life inside [the Mormon offshoot Kingston clan's] religious/cult compound are stunning Mormons, Utahans, the nation, and the world. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. . Only the FLDS prophet can arrange and perform polygamous marriages, and those marriages are taking place in a community in which almost everybody is related. 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. . Much of what we have reviewed appears frivolous and unfounded, Gustafson said in an emailed statement. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. . "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. One of the guilty pleas states they cycled fraud proceeds through a number of international partners and then back to Washakie's bank accounts, falsely claiming them as loans or profits. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. . 'It's like any inbred disorder,' Tarby says. "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? . "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. "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. 13, p. 195, "We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they (non-Mormons) envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. Since polygamy remained a hidden and illegal practice, disguised family records occurred. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. . . 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? And it is my purpose to provide for my saints, for all things are mine. His father wrote: Brother Elden received a new covenant up on the top of the highest mountain that is east of Bountiful, Utah. "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. Escaping Polygamy is an American documentary television series that premiered on December 30, 2014, on LMN.The show now airs on Lifetime, but can also be viewed on Tubi, and follows the work of three sisters who left the Kingston clan, a polygamous group based in Salt Lake City, Utah known as The Order, as they help family and/or friends break free of polygamy. Still, if children are caught up in an abusive or incestuous situation, Williams would encourage policing. "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. and councilmen.' The trial of the man, David Ortell Kingston . The Kingston family is quite real and is a polygamous unit. 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. . . Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. People in plural marriages and held above those aren't. People who are members of the Kingston family by blood are held up higher than members of the Clan who are not also blood members of the Kingston family.