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When the church doors open, only white people will be allowed inside.
That’s the message the Asatru Folk Assembly in Murdock, Minnesota, is sending after being granted a conditional use permit to open a church there and practice its pre-Christian religion that originated in northern Europe.
Murdock council members said they do not support the church but were legally obligated to approve the permit, which they did in a 3-1 decision.
“We were highly advised by our attorney to pass this permit for legal reasons to protect the First Amendment rights," Mayor Craig Kavanagh said. "We knew that if this was going to be denied, we were going to have a legal battle on our hands that could be pretty expensive.”
City Attorney Don Wilcox said it came down to free speech and freedom of religion.
“I think there’s a great deal of sentiment in the town that they don’t want that group there," he said. "You can’t just bar people from practicing whatever religion they want or saying anything they want as long as it doesn’t incite violence.”
After permit approved for whites-only church, small Minnesota town insists it isn't racist
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:14PM
Never said it was not. Fusty asked if I'd care if the local black population wanted to build themselves a "black only" church. And I answered that one. Don't care in the least if they want to do this.
But you also have seemed to skip over the "new liberal" viewpoint of what is racism. The "new liberal" viewpoint is that racism by a minority is not racism at all, it is perfectly fine. In the "new liberal" mindset, there can be only one racism. That one being the privileged [1] whites who are racist against anyone who is not a privileged white. That and the new definition of "racist" as "anything a white person disagrees with me about, no matter their reason for disagreeing".
[1] And, in this new definition, privileged simply means "white", so the extra adjective they attach has no meaning, it is just present "for show".