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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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By Hans Bader | December 23, 2020 | 9:39am EST
The former Lutheran church that is now being used as a gathering hall for members of the neo-Aryan, whites only religion. (Screenshot, Star Tribune)
Respecting someone s legal rights doesn t mean you agree with their bizarre beliefs. But NBC News doesn t understand that. It implied that a town in Minnesota was guilty of racism, just because it allowed a white separatist church to operate, rather than violating the First Amendment by trying to shut it down.
The town would have been sued had it prevented the church from operating: courts have ruled that racist religions have the First Amendment right to exist and to exclude people of different races from their meetings.
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Murdock, Minnesota s City Council voted 3-1 to grant permit allowing Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) to gather at former Lutheran church
AFA practices a pre-Christian, European spirituality that revolves around Norse gods; it only admits white people with northern European descent
Southern Poverty Law Center has added AFA to its list of hate groups
Critics of AFA have launched an online petition seeking to stop it, which so far has drawn more than 123,000 signatures
Murdock officials said rejecting AFA s permit request could have violated its religious rights and led to an expensive legal battle