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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, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:09PM
It's so interesting to consider that when we look back at history we tend to arbitrarily label things good or evil. But for people living through those times there's no doubt that things were likely not especially different than what we're experiencing today. This [wikipedia.org] is the Fascist Manifesto. That is ground-zero fascism and lays out the framework for how Mussolini saw his party's political goals. The word fascism itself was derived from fascio which is just an Italian word that means a bundle or sheaf. The idea being that people working together for a better society are strong and unbreakable, whereas individually they're fragile and weak.
And reading the manifesto one immediately notices it's basically the foundation for modern day Progressive, with a capital P, ideology. Of course Progressivism is not inherently fascist. Rather the point I make is that what labels people give themselves (or others) are ultimately irrelevant. Who people are is defined by their actions, and is also how history will ultimately judge and record these people.
And indeed during the rise of Fascism in Italy there's no doubt that people felt they would be going down on the "right side of history" even if it involved getting their hands a bit dirty in the mean time in order to ensure a better and more just society for everybody, moving forward. They might be initially surprised (though probably not upon honest reflection) that instead of going down on the "right side of history", their party's very name itself ended up becoming little more than a political pejorative for self righteous intolerance.