[lepton]

Something must have happened toward the end of the 70s to make the Baptists go PC or something. They are "all" against celebrating Halloween or something. Now most don't have a problem with participating but definitely don't want to celebrate it at church. That part I can understand. It's those that don't celebrate it at all that I can't figure out especially knowing how it was done back when I was a kid.

Well, it could be a rise in the nuts that actually take Halloween as a religious holiday. Was New Age/Wicca (among other things) really around when you were a kid? While as it currently is, its modern form is mostly just a religion which appears made up to annoy parents, many adherents do celebrate Halloween as a religious event. Given that change in context, one should expect a change in attitude.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Was New Age/Wicca (among other things) really around when you were a kid?

Wicca is a modern form of the pagan nature religions of northern Europe. The beliefs called New Age originate in the Theosophy and Spiritualist movements of the Victorian period.