Minnesota Town Approves Permit For Whites-Only Church — Mayor Says Town Is “Not Racist”
Socialites, get into this: the doors to a Minnesota church will soon open but only white people will be allowed inside.
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Earlier this month, officials in the small town of Murdock, Minn., voted to let the Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) transform an abandoned Lutheran church into a new place of worship. The Asatru Folk Assembly applied for the permit and was granted one for conditional use to preach its pre-Christian messages and to operate openly for white people only.
The AFA has been accused of pushing white supremacy. Many people including some residents have even started to push back against the decision. About 50,000 have signed an online petition to stop the all-white church from making its home in the farming town of 280 people. Despite that, Mayor Craig Kavanagh insist that the town is not racist. He told NBC News: “Because we’ve approved this permit, all of a sudden everyone feels this town is racist, and that isn’t the case,” Kavanagh said. “Just because we voted yes doesn’t mean we’re racist.”
“We’re not. It’s just simply not true,” Allen Turnage added, a folk assembly board member. “Just because we respect our own culture, that doesn’t mean we are denigrating someone else’s.”
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