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The Latter Day Church of Christ is a Mormon fundamentalist denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement, and is also known as the Kingston Clan , the Kingston Group , The Order , the Davis County Cooperative , and The Co-op Society . There are approximately 2000 members of this group.

Establishment

The church was created in 1977 by the joint owners of the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc., a cooperative created in 1941 to manage and hold the financial assets of the group. The Latter Day Church of Christ is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In the early 1920s, Charles W. Kingston was closely associated with Lorin C. Woolley, Joseph Musser, and other prominent Mormon fundamentalists living in the polygamous community of Short Creek, Arizona who had been excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) due to their refusal to renounce polygamy as required by the Second Manifesto issued in 1904 by then LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith. By 1935, following the death of J. Leslie Broadbent, the Kingstons had split away from the Short Creek Mormon fundamentalists having embraced the claim of Elden Kingston, Charles W. Kingston's son, that he had been set apart as Broadbent’s Second Elder, and claimed he should have been Broadbent's rightful successor.

Elden Kingston then relocated along with his family to Northern Utah in Davis County. Kingston claimed that after seeking divine guidance in a cave in northern Davis County, Utah, an angel visited him and directed him to establish a United Order, or self supporting society. Elden Kingston formed the Davis County Cooperative Society in 1941. The corporation produces goods and services that are used by members, or sold or traded to other cooperatives and to the public.

Finances

Over the decades the Co-op has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive cooperative system with assets now valued over 150 million dollars.

Financial holdings include a 300-acre dairy farm in Davis County and a 1000 acre farm in Idaho, a cattle ranch and coal mine in Emery County, a discount store and the United Bank. J. Ortell Kingston aggressively pursued a financially expansive agenda for the Davis County Cooperative Society Inc and the wealth of the Kingston clan grew.

Beliefs

The Latter Day Church of Christ claims to maintain the original beliefs and teachings of Joseph Smith, Jr., viewing other sects in the Latter Day Saint movement as incorrect. The Latter Day Church of Christ has continued the practice of polygamy since inception and also practices close, occasionally incestuous, marriage to maintain "pure bloodlines" that they have claimed to trace to Jesus Christ. The Latter Day Church of Christ also practices the Law of Consecration, the United Order, and the "Law of Satisfaction".

During the first years of the church, Kingston and his followers wore unique outer garments. This led to people referring to them as "blue-coats." Men and boys wore a blue, coverall-type suit tied with strings, while women and girls wore plain blue dresses. As a symbol of their renunciation of worldly goods, the outer clothing contained no pockets in which possession could be carried, although later an inside pocket was provided for the sanitary measure of carrying a handkerchief. All went bareheaded and barefoot.

Plural marriage is practiced in the community and there have been numerous legal issues regarding this in the state of Utah. However most civil cases against Kingston Clan members have been for having polygamous relationships with members of their own extended family.

Each member of the Kingston clan is designated by numbers: “Brother #1,” “Brother #2,” “Brother #3,” etc. Charles W. Kingston taught that “Every individual... no matter what authority, standing or station he is in, is responsible to the one above him in exactly the same way as if that individual was the Savior himself...We must look at the one above us in the same light as we look at the Savior.” This doctrine is known as the Law of Satisfaction and it places immense importance on honoring all participants with lower numbers, who are higher in the hierarchy.

The church also says it emphasizes family values, education, self-sufficiency and that each child is considered a priceless blessing. Children are allowed to attend public schools and some go on to receive college educations. The church recently established a private school called Ensign Academy, which almost all children now attend.

Controversies

Intra-family marriages

The Kingston Dairy, owned by the co-op in Woods Cross, Davis County, Utah is reportedly where the theories on genetics that could be used to "purify" the Kingston family pedigree were developed. Use of these theories encouraged incestuous marriages of close relatives in order to "perfect" the Kingston bloodline. Those marriages, if proven, could be considered illegal under Utah's consanguinity laws. Connie Rugg, one of Ortell’s plural wives, stated "Ortell Kingston experimented inbreeding with his cattle, and then he turned to his children.”

Some examples include:

• Kingston Clan member Jason Ortell Kingston married his half-sister, Andrea Johnson, who became pregnant in 1992. She suffered from preeclampsia (toxemia) before being brought in for medical treatment. A C-section was performed to save the baby, but the mother died. Utah state officials believe that obstetrical care was withheld, because of the possibility that the incestuous relationship would be discovered.
• Jeremy Ortell Kingston was sentenced to a year in prison in 2004 for having taken LuAnn Kingston, who was his cousin and aunt, as his fourth wife in 1994.
• Kingston Clan member John Daniel Kingston married 15 year-old Mary Ann Kingston, who afterwards attempted to run away, but was apprehended by her father, who then beat her. He was arrested and pled “no contest” to the charge of child abuse and served seven months in jail. J. Daniel Kingston was convicted of incest and unlawful sexual conduct, and was sentenced to a four year prison term. Mary Ann would later file a $110 million lawsuit against members of the Kingston clan, alleging intentional sexual abuse of a child and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Child marriage

Latter Day Church of Christ also practices child marriage of girls just attaining puberty. Leaders of the Kingston clan, those having a "pure bloodline", have priority over almost any other members when choosing a plural wife. With this advantage, teenaged girls as young as fourteen are coerced into marriage as a new plural wife.

Financial fraud

Despite the wealth of the Kingston Clan leaders, the plural wives of leaders have been sometimes found living in almost inhumane conditions. Often wives' homes consisted of only small rundown clapboard houses, with peeling paint and broken windows. Connie Rugg, a former member, stated: "The men in the Kingston group do little or nothing to support their many wives and children". Sometimes wives will "go gardening", scrounging through garbage cans to help provide food for themselves and their children.

The Latter Day Church of Christ has also been accused of engaging in welfare fraud and tax evasion. They have larger families which is typical of the older LDS teachings. John Ortell Kingston was accused of tax evasion and fraudulently obtained welfare by having his wives claim to be single mothers, claiming that he was not the father of their children. Ortell's holdings were estimated at $70 million. In 1983, the State of Utah sued Ortell Kingston for repayment of welfare subsidies his plural wives had received. While admitting no wrongdoing, Ortell paid the state $250,000 and the case was dropped.

Leaders

• Paul Elden Kingston, (1987– )
• John Ortell Kingston (1944–1987)
• Elden Kingston (1935–1947)
• Charles W. Kingston (founding patriarch, supported leaders from 1935 until his death in 1975)

Kingston Group Assets

The Utah holdings of the Davis County Cooperative are estimated at more than $2 million. including the following:

• A-1 Disposal
• AAA Security
• Advance Vending
• AM Security Alarm Co.
• American Digital Systems
• ANR Company Inc.
• Associated Trucking Company
• Bail Bond Specialists
• Best Distributing Amusement Games
• C.O.P. Coal Development Co.
• C.W. Mining Co. (Related entities: Co-Op Mine; CoOp Mining Co.)
• Coalt Inc.
• D.U. Company Inc.
• Davis County Cooperative Society Inc.
• East Side Market
• Family Stores True Value
• Fidelity Funding Corp.
• Fountain of Youth Health & Athletic Club
• Garco Industrial Park
• Green Island Energy
• H.K. Engineering Inc.
• Hiawatha Coal Co. Inc.
• Holtz Inc.
• IA Castle Corp.
• K.C.P.C. Inc.
• K.J.E. Inc.
• Kalvin Property Company
• Kingston Agriculture
• Kingston Agronomy LLC
• Kingston Dairy
• Kingston & Associates Marketing
• Kwik Industries
• Little Red School House Montessori
• Men's Shoe Repair and Men's Store
• Mountain Vendors Machine Distributors
• Muchalat Industries
• Mountain Coin Machine Distributors
• N.U.B. Corp.
• National Business Management Inc.

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