What we're being told sounds very, very improbable and reeks of Biden/MSM misinformation. I might be wrong. I'm holding out for more input from people that have participated over the years because I suspect I'm being lied to, which happens a lot with political actors.
It's an easy enough hurdle to clear, with an event that hosts hundreds of kids each year for 45+ years, there's potentially 10000+ people of all political and religious stripes and beliefs that can corroborate the claim. Get me a few people that say "Yeah, I was told such and such about religious imagery twenty years ago" and I'll concede the point.
I don't just swallow everything the MSM tells me. That's your thing.