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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, @04:36PM
Yeah, this is a consequence of what they call "critical race theory" in which racism only exists if it's done by the powerful.
Interestingly, it's not about the majority, but the powerful, which is why they still get to cheer for black south africans, despite them being the majority by far.
Anyway, aside from all that, they have a stock set of excuses surrounding it. For example, when the privileged (whoever they are at any one moment) complain, it's not pointing out hypocrisy, it's "fragility" displayed by people who can dish it out but not take it. If you live in or near a college town you'll probably hear this all over the place. Then there's a heaping helping of warmed-over marxist class rhetoric rebranded as race/sex/whatever power analyses.
This is pretty much the same logic as that followed by Andrew Dworkin on the topic of feminism back when she was still alive. Depending on how old you are, you might remember the logic, but it went something like this: women are oppressed as a class in society, the oppressed cannot meaningfully consent to their interactions, ergo consent is off the table, ergo all penetrative intercourse is rape. It ... uh, didn't stop a lot of college girls getting their freak on. So I guess it failed.
And the new critical race theory doesn't seem to stop a lot of folks with darker skins going to work in the conventional economy, despite it being a tool of hegemonic oppression. So they're all slaves! Slaves to the machine!... or something. I can feel braincells dying.