Queer Satanic#TheSatanicTemple's lawsuit against #Chicago implodes after minister splits org
Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by #TST owner Doug “#LucienGreaves” Misicko wrecks another legal case, this time over #invocations at Chicago City Council
A day before a status hearing was set to go before a federal judge for a religious discrimination lawsuit by #TheSatanicTemple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.
> Plaintiffs The Satanic Temple and Adam Vavrick and Defendant City of #Chicago, through their respective counsel, hereby stipulate that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 this case should be dismissed without costs or fees to either party.
-Stipulation to Dismiss – Document No. 35
The following day, July 24, Judge Joan Lefkow dismissed the cases with prejudice “with each party to bear its own costs and fees.”
#TheSatanicTempleInc. and #AdamVavrick, an ordained minister of the #SatanicTemple and a leader of the #TSTIllinois congregation, sought to deliver an invocation before a #ChicagoCityCouncil meeting. However, they were not invited after, TST claims, more than three years of asking to deliver an invocation and not being given an explanation for why they were not invited.
TST sued the city in federal court on May 3, 2023, alleging violations of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
We wrote about the background of this whole thing in December 2023 and again in May 2024; in the latter, we also made a bit of a prediction there at the very end in reference to the scheduled trial date:
“Given TST’s usual burn-through rate and the ongoing major schism centered on TST Ministry, it will also be interesting to see if ‘Minister of Satan Adam Vavrick’ is even still associated with TST and ordained by the time 2025 rolls around.”
And wouldn’t you know it, a little more than a month after we said that, the plaintiff Vavrick announced he’d left TST's #SatanicMinistry.
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Satanic Temple's lawsuit against Chicago implodes after minister splits org
Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by TST owner "Lucien Greaves" wrecks another legal case, this time over invocations at Chicago City Council. A day before a status hearing was set to go before a federal judge for a religious discrimination lawsuit by The Satanic Temple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge that that would no longer be necessary, voluntarily ending the case for good.
