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Neighbors Voice Concerns After Town Leaders Allow Group With White Supremacist Beliefs To Use Church

Earlier this year, Asatru Folk Assembly bought a vacant Lutheran Church in Murdock.

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By John Lauritsen, CBS Minnesota

December 10, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — People living in a western Minnesota town say they’re concerned about a group with white supremacist beliefs, moving to their city.

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Earlier this year, Asatru Folk Assembly bought a vacant Lutheran Church in Murdock. Last night the city council voted to allow them to use the church to practice their beliefs.

Some religious scholars have referred to Asatru Folk Assembly, as a racist fringe group with white supremacist beliefs. An attorney for the group says they are a Northern European religion and that’s it.

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