Whites-Only Religious Group Again a Hot Topic at Centralia City Council Meeting

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Whites-Only Religious Group Again a Hot Topic at Centralia City Council Meeting

Earlier this month, Centralia Mayor Kelly Smith Johnston brought to light a shop in downtown Centralia with a sign and other imagery advertising the Asatru Folk Assembly, or AFA. The group is recognized by the Anti-Defamation League, Southern Poverty Law Center and other watchdog groups as a white supremacist hate group. On its website, the religious organization promotes Pagan, Norse mythology-based beliefs that it claims should only be practic…