Opinion: Wicca and the California Supremes

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The California Supreme Court just rang up a sale on the taxpayers’ cash register. Money from cities’ tax-exempt bonds can indeed be spent on buildings at religious schools. A trio of private Christian schools filed suit to get public bond money to build cafeterias and the like, and the state court agreed, barely, 4-3.

Someone is no doubt already burning the midnight compact fluorescents working on the federal appeal, but in the meantime -- all you Wiccan covens, start that paperwork going for a share of the dough. At worst, the outcry will show that the forces plumping for more religious presence in the public sphere just mean their kind of religion. At best, you could get a swell vegan cafeteria out of it.