. There is no doubt about that at all. Now, let's examine how "God-ordained" Mormon polygamy has wreaked unholy genetic havoc on its faithful followers: --Case Study on Polygamous Mormonism's Genetic Disease Striking Home: The Linda Walker Story. deficiency. IF polygamy really is justified in increased breeding, and since MORmON Jesus did institute such a plan according to MORmON history at one time, then how come MORmON god does not follow through and have a lot more females born in such marriages as would be required mathematically to make His Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. 5, p. 22, "Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. . That's the big problem.' The Intelligence Report is the SPLC's award-winning magazine. 6.3M views 6 years ago Profiles by VICE S1 E23 Although the mainstream Mormon church abandoned polygamy over 100 years ago, many splinter groups across Utah still practice plural marriage. 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. These can include: Cleft lip or cleft palate; Heart defects, such as missing or misshaped valves; Abnormal limbs, such as a clubfoot; Neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, and problems related to the growth and development of the . . Childbirth would be fraught with despair and guilt for me and for many family members. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. . . Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. "I'm like, Really? . . . "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. 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. Snow began dating men when he was 22. greatly increases, medical experts say. Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. Also known as the LDCJC, the Kingston Clan, and The Order, it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. 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. "Experts say the number of children afflicted in the FLDS community is expected to steadily increase as a result of decades of inbreeding between two of the polygamous sect's founding families--the Barlows and the Jessops. ", (Bruce, R. McConkie,'Mormon Doctrine,' 2nd ed., under "Plural Marriage" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Inc., 1966], p. 578) . soon . ", (Aimee Larsen Stoddard, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems," 7 October 2010, under "Birth Defects in Mormon Fundamentalist Cult," posted by "halley, 20 February 2011, at: http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723) 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. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. '90% of the community is related to one side or the other,' said Bistline, a former member of the sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 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. "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. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. . . 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. 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. 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. "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. ". Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. The man's response was, "Up here, we are all related," Tarby says. . "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. . provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. "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. It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. . "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. '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. Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. 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. If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. 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. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . "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. . Former clan prophet John Ortell Kingston, who died in 1987, paid the Medicaid bills for a child born with severe birth defects after Utah investigators linked the wealthy father of more than 65 children to the baby. . The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. They offer no support, no exit route and no programs for the people trapped inside polygamy endeavoring to escape these closed polygamous communities or compounds. . This is all compounded by the split between the FLDS and an offshoot group of polygamists that moved to nearby Centennial Park following a disagreement over how the community should be governed, and by whom). Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. 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. When you pair up those undesirable genes, something strange will pop out.'. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. Surely, there were too many deaths. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. . "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. Johnson maintained that The Orders vast array of businesses which includes a grocery store, pawn shops, a garbage disposal business, an insurance company, a politically-influential biofuels plant, and a high-end firearms manufacturer employs individuals of various racial and ethnic minorities. "You had a fairly diverse pool to start with, so only if that went on for a long time within this same population would you see real effects," he told ABC. Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . "Have you ever heard of the term The Turkey Baster?" My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. This is why those laws need to be enforced. . shocking stuff AFAIK it's quite contrary, for example MENA / Pakistan people very often marry 1st cousins. But given that the Kingstons command an estimated 6,000 adherents, boast a business empire reportedly worth as much as $1 billion and have outlasted myriad bouts with law enforcement and the press, these dreams of world domination may be less delusional than they first seem. 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. In secret videotapes of Order church meetings aired on Escaping Polygamy, Pauls nephew Nick Young, speaking from a church lectern, identifies himself as a numbered man, number 72, to be precise. I wonder aloud. "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. [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. . One child born with an incomplete liver died. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. He shares a last name and a not-too-distant relation with the polygamous LeBaron group in Chihuahua, Mexico. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. This denial is hollow considering the record. . This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. He estimates the test would . . "Parents who share a common ancestor are consanguineous. Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. Fumarase deficiency, however sensationalized, is not the only genetic disorder found here. my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? 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. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. "52 years later, more than half of the 8,000 people . . 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 ! Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . . . Young told Intelligence Report that his company has sold weapons, with the approval of the U.S. State Department, to governments in Europe and the Middle East, Saudi Arabia being one. . . Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Half and full siblings are marrying in religious ceremonies. They steer clear of banks,. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. Somehow LaDonnas curse was transferred to the Tuckers via Christy, Rons wife, because, Christys mom left The Order and married an Irishman, before leaving him and returning to the fold. lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . joined the Mormons in Zion, the new Promised Land, trading a life of mining for religious hope. The FLDS started out as a few fringe families in the late 1890s; as more seeking to follow the principal of plural marriage moved to the polygamous towns in the early-to-mid 20th century, the gene pool grew, but by the 90s, under the stricter control of prophet Rulon Jeffs (Warren's father), they were tightening up and selectively marrying and breeding in a sort of misfired eugenics experiment that ultimately yielded its own genetic disorder: fumarase deficiency (FD), otherwise known as Polygamist Down's. . 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. Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. _____. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. 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. "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. "There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece," she continues. 11, p. 128, ". He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. 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