Members of the Asatru Folk Assembly from the small farming town of Murdock, Minnesota want everyone to know that they’re not racist despite applying for a permit to deny entry to anyone who isn’t white into their new church building.Amazingly, the group was just granted permission by the Murdock city council to open its “whites only” church, where they plan to practice their ancient pre-Christian religion, which they claim originated in northern Europe.“We were highly advised by our attorney to pass this permit for legal reasons to protect the First Amendment rights,” Mayor Craig Kavanagh tells NBC News. “We knew that if this was going to be denied, we were going to have a legal battle on our hands that could be pretty expensive.”The Asatru.