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A white-only church that was approved is seeing pushback from the community, which has now created a petition to stop it.
A church in Murdock, Minnesota was just granted a conditional use permit to operate a white-only church in the town.
NBC News cited that the Asatru Folk Assembly, which originated in Northern Europe and allows only white people to practice its religion, had the permit approved by the Murdock City Council this month. The organisation has been labeled a neo-Volkisch hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. While it is unclear what went into the council s decision to approve the permit, the church is already seeing pushback from the community at large who has now created an online petition with nearly 130,000 signatures to stop it from operating in the small town of 280 people.
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By Victor Omondi
Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) in Murdock, Minnesota has recently been accorded a conditional use permit to open a church and practice its pre-Christian religion that originated from northern Europe.
The permit gives the church the liberty to not admit black people once it opens its doors. According to Allen Turnage, a member of the church’s board, blacks wouldn’t be allowed into the church because they’re not of “Northern Europe descent.”
AFA was granted the permit after a unanimous vote by the town’s officials. The church is turning an abandoned Lutheran Church that it acquired earlier in the year into a place of worship.
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By Cherranda Smith
Dec 23, 2020
The Asatru Folk Assembly in Murdock, Minnesota was granted a conditional use permit to open a church there where only white people will be allowed.
The Asatru Folk Assembly is a pre-Christian religion that has origins in northern Europe. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the group as a “neo-Volkisch hate group” that expresses “their bigotry in baseless claims of bloodlines grounding the superiority of one’s white identity.”
Murdock residents, however, are staunchly opposed to the group opening a church in their town. “I think they thought they could fly under the radar in a small town like this, but we d like to keep the pressure on them,” longtime resident