"Recovery from Mormonism - www.exmormon.org", http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm. Women and girls, after theyre married, submit to their husbands and men answer to higher-ranked men, the suit alleges. Performance & security by Cloudflare. . In response to questions from the newspaper, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative. 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. ', "Aleck says the fact that so many people in the polygamist enclave are blood relatives of the founding Barlow and Jessop families 'shows the magnitude of the problem.'. "[We] 'hierarchy children are from the 'elite' first families of Mormonism and these families started polygamy in America. Kimball. Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This story has been shared 112,868 times. The Latter Day Church of Christ,[1] is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. . . For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' Like any fundamentalist Mormon sect, the Kingston Clan is very hierarchal. A Kingston Family Primer. requote from Steve's excellent post ! Photocopy in authors possession. 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. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. [Andrea] Moore-Emmett [author of 'God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped'] contends that [in polygamy] incest, statutory rape, torture, physical abuse, forced marriages, and trafficking of girls is rampant. 'So often when you have an uncle-niece, or half-brother-sister, you have a situation where abuse is going on,' Jorde says. . According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. 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. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. . . provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "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. One Former LDS Fundamentalist Polygamist group understands - XMission 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. . Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. . Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. "Tarby said there could be hundreds of victims in coming generations. . "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. . Readily accepted as a problem among mothers past the age of 35, it is rarely discussed as a problem when fathers are over 35, let alone 80. Assets are generally estimated to be in the range of $200 million, although one Colorado competitor gave an even more stratospheric guess, pegging the clan's wealth at $11 billion. A recently created critical website can be viewed atwww.kingstonclan.com. . [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 accusers also claim that the group arranged child marriages so that girls would become pregnant and beholden to their husbands and the religious sect. "Medical experts say the incidence of the disorder will increase because the FLDS community is refusing to accept recommendations to reduce the likelihood of producing babies with fumarase deficiency. John Gustafson, a representative of the Davis County Cooperative Society, an affiliate of the Kingston Group, disputed the lawsuits claims. 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. Branches of the polygamist mans family left out of the genealogy will change the incidence of common ancestors and potentially mask the true disease risk and incidence in the community. . . "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. Unfortunately, there are also numerous reports of members who lived in squalor in order to advance the monetary gains of the Co-op. 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. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . People most at risk likely lived and married within the same small communities their ancestors founded. One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. . . Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. Children are allowed to attend public school and many go on to college. Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. Tarby. . . One of the most controversial splinter groups of Mormonism, the Latter Day Church of Christ, has been led by members of the Kingston family since it was founded in 1935. Doctrinally, members of the LDCJC try to adhere to the teachings of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. . . Video unavailable This video. The trial of the man, David Ortell Kingston . "The baby, delivered at Johnson's home in 1983, was taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. 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. he says. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. This seemed to apply in my own kindred because those of us who left Mormonism and married outsiders are less riddled with the deleterious genetic legacy than relatives who married within the ancestral Mormon gene pool. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. . 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. [22][23] Currently the group claims that although different skillsets bring different financial outcomes, there is no homelessness within the DCCS, and internal programs exist for those experiencing financial poverty.[2]. . Even if a genetic screening test were available, Wyler says, Jeffs would have to be cautious about how he allowed it to be implemented. However, the group reiterated its belief that "bleeding the beast" was "abhorent" and was "never a tenet" of its organization. . "With a well-thought-out plan," Hope After Polygamy explains, "she was successful; the judge granted her emancipation when she was 17 years old. on the flat hay fields that stretch from the edge of Woods Cross to the crusty shores of the Great Salt Lake, that John Ortell Kingston studied the genetics of in-line breeding. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. It is true that the LDS Church has collected tithes and offerings in the millions of dollars over the past decades. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. Thanks for signing up! . While engaged in that enterprise, he reportedly received an angelic visitation. Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. . Kingston clan: Unlikely whistleblower helps uncover alleged half "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. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). . . 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. . 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. "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. . A seventh son, Hyrum Dalton Kingston, is a polygamist but has not married incestuously, according to ex-members. Upon Ortells death in 1987, leadership passed to his son Paul Elden Kingston. 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. [12] In 1977, Elden's brother Ortell Kingston began to file for legal recognition of the church later organized as The Latter Day Church of Christ. . . . _____. [47][48] The remainder of the transactions (over 94%) were to entities associated with Lev Derman, who prosecutors allege was the mastermind of the scheme. 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. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. They can't do anything by themselves. He also married a woman descended from polygamy. 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. The Kingstons claim that Elden received a new dispensation is problematic in another way. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. "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. [7] Some members of the church are also believed to practice consanguineous marriage, or marriage to relatives within the group.