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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: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday December 23 2020, @06:29PM (3 children)
The racists can use their freedom of speech to say that minorities are bad.
The progressives can use their freedom of speech to say that racists are bad.
It's a win-win!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @07:40PM (1 child)
And a bunch of regular folks can chime in, saying both racists and progressives are stupid, just in different ways?
A poem for you, from a danish hero:
For many system shoppers it's a good-for-nothing system
that classifies as opposites stupidity and wisdom,
because by logic-choppers it's accepted with avidity:
stupidity's true opposite's the opposite stupidity.
-- Piet Hein
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @09:20PM
Ok, I read the poem, now where's the Danish?
'Let them eat cake.', he says.. I'll show them cake!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @09:14PM
Yeah, well, can one of ya use their *freedom of speech* to order up my pizza??
No, wait, scratch that, gimme a pastrami on rye, hold the mayo, and make it snappy, at my age, seconds count, you never know when the big one is gonna pop.. C'mon! Chop chop! You want something for the tip jar, right?