Satanic Sex Magick in the Court of Law
DECIDED APRIL 23,2020
Mayle is a self-proclaimed Satanist. He says he is a follower of The Law of Thelema, a set of beliefs developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley. (The beliefs echo the rule of the fictional Abbey of Thélème in Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel, “Do what thou will.”) As part of this religion, Mayle participates in what he calls “sex magick rituals” that he believes violate Illinois’s laws forbidding adultery and fornication.
The court then dismissed for lack of standing Mayle’s challenges to Illinois’s adultery and fornication statutes.
Nothing relevant has changed on that front since the 2017 dismissal. The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.
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