Excellent piece, Brooke! I hope you won't be offended if I include it on my quarterly Recommended Reads list -- the next one of which will be published at the end of December.

Interestingly enough, 1988 was the final year when my hometown held its traditional "Hobo Day" as part of Homecoming week. The following year, they changed it to "Black-and-Orange Day" (our school colors). I'm assuming this was because groups were expressing that it was offensive/insulting to the homeless.

While there's no direct connection between the homeless and Satanists, it's interesting that these shifts seemed to be occurring around the same time.