Naming a father could expose the truth, unveil secrets of paternity and subject the clan to further scrutiny from those who don't approve of incest. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. "It is Moore-Emmett's belief that the LDS Church who started polygamy in this country should take responsibility and provide financial aid and other resources for those polygamous families who have been abused. . Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. Their brains, he says, 'are strangely shaped' and are frequently missing large areas of brain matter that has been replaced by water. Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. . Tarby recounts a conversation he had with a member of the Barlow clan in which he tried to explain why so much fumarase deficiency was occurring among Mormon polygamists. . Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. . Polygamy is outlawed in Utah, both by the states constitution, and in statute, where it is a third-degree felony, with a possible punishment of five years in prison. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. "This gene cluster effect happens when people with common ancestors marry and bear children. . . " . . "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . Had these defects clumped in my own family as it seemingly appeared to me? "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. . 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. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. . "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. 'I really doubt that if we could tell them, you know, "This male has the condition and this female has the condition; you shouldn't mate," that wouldn't stop them,' he said. The baby cemetery is a mess of overgrown weeds and dry, cracked dirt, home to hundreds of infant and toddler-size graves, not all of them marked. "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. This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' . . "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. This is why those laws need to be enforced. materials or even attempted to focus team and society have a kingston clan member was charged with birth defects increase becomes apparent similarities than. "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. Or Aunt Martha did, or somebody did. 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. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. "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. They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. They predict the scale of the problem will increase dramatically in the future. 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. ", (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) The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". . . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . The first questions were about his background. "Her book . . 'Right away I asked the parents if there were any other children with the same problem.' ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) 'If the community gets larger, the number of people with fumarase deficiency gets larger. _____. . This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. [in order] to reduce competition for wives. "Genetic testing confirms that there is a high prevalence of various birth defects in polygamous populations. . 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. Former Order members tell of babies being born nearly every week in the church. The two were playmates when they were boys. . Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. . John Daniel Kingston seen here in 1999, pleading no contest to beating his 16-year-old daughter after she attempted to flee an arranged marriage with her uncle David, Kingstons brother. . . 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. I am convinced they do. . Excerpts from the article "Understanding Polygamy," distributed by "Humanists of Utah": " . 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. Additionally, ex-Order members tell of a reputed church prophecy of an End of the World War, an apocalyptic vision that foresees a bloody race war with the Kingstons as the ultimate victors, chosen by their Heavenly Father to rule the world for a millennium. Martha's husband was "Uncle" Fred Jessop, longtime Bishop to the FLDS people, who died in 2005 at 94, after being dragged from state to state by Warren Jeffs in what many ex-members believe was a transparent scheme of murder-by-stress: Dragging around a physically ailing, elderly man in need of constant medication is one way to kill a person without committing any outright murderous act, they say. . "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. . . Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. "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. . They can't sit up. . . The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. These babies usually do not leave the hospital and die as infants. Kingston -- the late enigmatic leader and church prophet who built the 1,500-member Kingston clan into a multimillion-dollar business empire while allowing many of his purported 13 wives and dozens of children to survive on government assistance. For Mormon patriarchs lusting in their hearts for the Polygamy Reunion Tour, hope springs eternal. "The rate at which Kingstons marry each other is 'frightening,' she says. 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. Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. . . . 'The downside is that if you don't start with good genetics, and if there is baggage in the genes of the individual, inbreeding will uncover that baggage. 'We do know there are biological hazards. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their. Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. . There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. I'm driving around Short Creek with Alyssawho is in Boise, Idaho, where she is a college sophomorepiped in through the bluetooth-enabled speakerphone in the rental car I'd picked in Las Vegas the previous night. "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. The letter asserts that one of the earliest members of the church was a Native American man and that the Co-op, as it is sometimes called, has been the victim of prejudice and harassment by Utahs majority religion (i.e., the LDS church) because of the formers progressive ideas. "In polygamy . 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