[Choose Ye This Day]

This is truly shocking, and powerful evidence that the FLDS cult is damaging and abusing each successive generation of offspring.

[GOP_Raider]

fumarase deficiency

I'm surprised it took this long for anyone--us, bloggers, drive-bys, etc.--to mention fumarase deficiency with the FLDS'ers. Something of a modern day Hapsburg Chin if you will...

[pandoraou812]

Thank you for posting this. Prayers for those children.

[wastedyears]

Dump the “parents” into a tar pit.

[Anti-Bubba182]

The horny old goats in charge could care less! I wonder if they even believe in God?

[CindyDawg]

That may be why we are hearing rumors of children and women being moved around...expanding the gene pool.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Another story from 2006 about FLDS fumarase:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635182923,00.html

It’s heartbreaking.

[cherry]

this is shocking......but without even knowing about this, the people of this cult all LOOK strange in similar ways.....I guessed inbreeding would do that...

"breeding program "

the Mormon historians might want to call what they did a "program" but it was not about breeding, it was about sexual conquest.....let's not kid ourselves here....

[skimask]

Looks to me like they are going to breed themselves out of existence. Sooner or later more and more kids are going to be born with this disorder. Once it hits a 50% birth rate of kids born with the disorder they are done. Remember the Egyptian royalty of ancient times.

[Huntress]

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.

I bet there are also a number of uncle/niece marriages.

[gost2]

Cousin schtupers. The worst.

[NRA2BFree]

"This man has left nothing of his worldly worth, but he has left far more than most people of God's satan's work. There isn't another man in the U.S. that can boast this man's posterity, sin and perversion!"

No doubt about it. It is evil beyond anything I've ever heard. They inflict it on innocent babies because of their own lust and sexual perversion. The courts need to throw those cult members so deep into prison they will never find their way out. They are going to be held to account on Judgment Day!

[SweetCaroline]

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[woofie]

Its stuff like this that make me glad I married a strange woman

[matthew fuller]

I have often wondered why I haven’t heard about this type of inbred defect in the populations of islands, such as Hawaii, Guam, or any other small island. Maybe this is what happened to the Easter Island civilization.

[BitBucket]

Similar problems have been reported in the Amish community, which does not practice polygamy. Just the small size and closed nature of the community is enough to cause rare genetic diseases. The FLDS community is extremely tiny from a genetic perspective when you only count the men.

[Will88]

I guess the proper officials need to start thinking more about inbreeding and the problems it causes for societies. The FLDS won’t be the last and will be far from the largest, and will have practiced cousin marriages for a far shorter time than other groups in the US. The British are already debating the problem.

“British Pakistanis are 13 times more likely to have children with genetic disorders than the general population.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4442646.stm

In many or most Muslim groups, cousin marriages have been practiced since the time of Mohammed.

[ansel12]

"The only long-term solution to the health crisis is" Texas

[CarrotAndStick]

But... but... 6+ billion people descended from Adam and Eve!

[LibertarianInExile]

"Victims suffer a range of symptoms, including severe epileptic seizures, inability to walk or even sit upright, severe speech impediments, failure to grow at a normal rate, and tragic physical deformities."

Hmmm...

[Will88]

Cousin marriages are a topic around the world:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44204

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/000452.php

http://www.emro.who.int/Publications/EMRO%20PUB-TPS-GEN-PRT2-CHPT5-5.2.HTM