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Maxirad
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This situation is particularly problematic, right?
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Insisting [the city council] isn’t racist, Minnesota mayor and attorney defends approval of ‘whites only’ church [permit]
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humbleseeker
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I’d find it particularly comforting to know where all the whack-a-doodles could be found in my neighborhood at least for one hour on Sunday. Maybe go out and do some shopping.
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ThinkingSapien
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Unless the group were engaged in something illegal, I don’t see that the city could refuse to approve on a basis that is within the constraints of the first Ammendment.
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Wampa
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What a poorly written headline by the author (not the OP). The ‘it’ refers to the city (which isn’t even mentioned in the headline), not the church.
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Theo520
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What part are you referring to, that bigots also have constitutionally rights and legal protections?
Tis_Bearself
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Yeah, along the same lines the OP might want to look into the “Nation of Islam” sometime.
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Maxirad
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I guess so.
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ThinkingSapien
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I changed it. Is this title better?
“Insisting [the city council] isn’t racist, Minnesota mayor and attorney defends approval of ‘whites only’ church [permit]”
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Wampa
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Much better. The headline that the NY Daily News wrote was claiming the mayor and attorney were saying the church wasn’t racist. Being a Minnesotan and seeing this on the local news already, I knew that wasn’t right! 
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silentwitness
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Well the first thing to say is that the application for a whites only church is putting race above Christianity.
I have lived in many countries where people organise around racial lines and i think the government should have minimal interference in that.
It is Christianity that should be a positive movement (among other groupings) to put the most highest morals above race rather than government being a negative movement to tell people what not to do.
I expect this church is small potatoes and unChristian if it wants to outright ban some races.
If this spreads (and i don’t think it will) it will signify a bigger problem that needs to be addressed properly and if it doesn’t (which i suspect) then it really doesn’t matter much.
I have lived in many countries where people organise around racial lines and i think the government should have minimal interference in that.
It is Christianity that should be a positive movement (among other groupings) to put the most highest morals above race rather than government being a negative movement to tell people what not to do.
I expect this church is small potatoes and unChristian if it wants to outright ban some races.
If this spreads (and i don’t think it will) it will signify a bigger problem that needs to be addressed properly and if it doesn’t (which i suspect) then it really doesn’t matter much.
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