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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, @04:11PM
Amen.
My perspective is a little different, because I work in music. I can only describe what I've had to deal with as the new victorianism. No, we're not putting skirts on pianos in case the legs arouse the audience to an ecstasy of hormonal rage, but the content must be so carefully watched that right now putting out anything with lyrics that didn't pass a screen of editors is an invitation to be dumped.
I thought we were past all this after the mind-numbingly idiotic addition of content warning labels to appease Tipper and her gang of thugs back in the '80s, but I was wrong. I should have known. Satanic Panic in the '80s. Political Correctness in the '90s. A brief respite in the naughties and now it's Woke World 2020. The cheerleaders every time? The left.
I'm not Ted Nugent yet, but he's starting to make a lot of sense to me. This is a new feeling and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with it.