While Gov. Gray Davis and GOP rival Bill Simon took turns last week bashing a federal court that ruled the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional, a lesser-known gubernatorial candidate praised the decision.Libertarian Gary Copeland, an observant Druid and self-described pagan, told supporters that the court's decision "is long overdue."
"As a practicing Druid (pagan), I have always muted the words 'under God' when I spoke 'The Pledge of Allegiance,' " he wrote.
The U.S. Supreme Court, which last week approved a school voucher program in another case involving church-state issues, gave Copeland another idea, he said.
"What the (vouchers decision) basically said is, it's our time to form a school," he noted. "The schools in England were originally formed by the Druids 3,000 years ago."