The Asatru Folk Assembly needs a conditional use permit if it is to use the former Lutheran church building it purchased in Murdock for a place of worship. Nearly 50 people attended a public hearing to voice concerns about safety and ask the council to deny the permit.
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The Murdock, Minnesota, city council voted 3-1 earlier this month to issue a permit allowing the Asatru Folk Assembly to occupy space previously held by a Lutheran church.
The church, which only allows members who are white, has drawn concern from residents, who have turned to a town Facebook page to express confusion and distress over their new neighbors, NBC News reported.
The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Asatru Folk Assembly as perhaps the largest Neo-Völkisch group in the US, which it defines as one that is organized around ethnocentricity and archaic notions of gender.
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