Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. . 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. Consequently, genetic diseases and mutations have inevitably sprouted in many polygamous groups having this belief. 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. 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. deficiency. I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. . . 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 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. 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. . Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. . All of this is to say that incest and inbreeding have been going on for so longand so prevalentlyin the polygamous sects along the Utah/Arizona border that these stories have been woven into the fiber of the communities. . Children of the latter variety, he says, 'can't crawl. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. 'A lady comes in and helps her. . "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. . 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. "Well, needless to say, we had a lot of, uh. Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. . There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. . "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. That's still gross." We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. Meanwhile, Mary Ann Kingston, 22, has brought a $110 million civil suit against 242 Order members and 97 companies they operate, claiming that they share collective responsibility for abuse she. The renunciation of polygamy is now church doctrine, and the Mormon church has a policy of excommunicating polygamists. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. "It's unlikely the polygamous community will heed the doctor's advice. . . . There are also accounts of dead babies being buried at the Holy Spot, a tree-shrouded patch of land across the street from a grade school in Bountiful, just north of Salt Lake City. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. 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. The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. This denial is hollow considering the record. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. . Gallup Panel survey [conducted in August 2006] show[ed] that Americans are much more likely to believe most Mormons endorse practicing polygamy than to believe most Americans support it. And another one of her sisters married one of my half-brothers, but we have the same blood and genetics because our moms are full sisters." Examples of birth defects include phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome. . "The few dissenters in the community say the serious genetic problems that are beginning to surface are an indication that the closed FLDS society could eventually collapse. Because that one is going to be genius-level purity, and thats what The Order is looking for., Photo Credit: AP Images / Leah Hogsten, Pool (John Daniel Kingston); AP Images / Jeffrey D. Allred / Pool (Jeremy Kingston), SPLC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 63-0598743). "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. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. There are baby graves year that date back as earlier as the 1950s, potentially even earlier: many are unmarked. . Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. We would cause harm, he confessed. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. . ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. . The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. Three of their children suffer from serious inherited disorders. Lesser known children hidden in families sympathetic to polygamists might remain ignorant of their genetic kinship. Carolyn. Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. 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. . From the "Phoenix New Timms" article, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children": "Colorado City resident Isaac Wyler says FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs is trying to create the 'perfect race.'. When this got around to his dad, his father packed up Snows belongings and left them in the room of a hotel owned by The Order. And during a recent picnic to honor the birthday of patriarch John Ortell Kingston, Order families descended on a Salt Lake Valley park, where hundreds of children of all ages blanketed the parks green expanse. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. provide crucial information to community members of who is carrying the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "A Secretive Refrain: . 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. Men make all decisions affecting her health. . 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 . 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. 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 . Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. : About half of the 8,000 people living in the towns are blood relatives of two of the founding families that settled in the 1930s on the desolate high desert plateau against the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. . 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' 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. . Some of these marriages will include parents who both are carriers of the fumarase deficiency gene, making it certain that more children will be afflicted with the disease. "You have to either accept" the responsibility of caring for so many children with major healthcare needs "or let it destroy you," says this man, whose wife recently suffered a stroke. Young denied that The Order was racist or taught any form of bigotry, and said he had people of all races working for him. The parents said their daughter had cerebral palsy. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. They can't do anything by themselves. . Some would say that is because it takes generations for certain inbred recessive genetic traits to manifest. Snow began dating men when he was 22. Since the natural male-to-female ratio is roughly 50-50, the ratio must be manipulated so that there are more females than males for polygamy to work. ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? . Grant determined to keep marrying until he found a woman to bear him living sons. Fumarase deficiency (FD) is an autosomal metabolic recessive disorder, meaning it is necessary for an individual with the condition to receive the mutant allele from both parents. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . . . [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. '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 can't sit up. The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. Black people supposedly suffered from multiple scriptural curses, from the mark of Cain and Noahs curse on Ham in the Old Testament to the racist tenets of early Mormonism that have since been renounced or abandoned by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS or Mormon church. 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