I wonder about this whole big deal of how unrealisticly paranoid people can get about Paganism. I live here in the real Bible Belt.
People get pretty extreme here about religion, although there are places where it's worse.
They even refused to install the statue of Ceres that was commissioned for the Kansas State Capitol building because she was a Pagan Goddess. Still, we have a thriving Pagan community, and not a small share of misguided fundamentalist teenagers rebelling into holywood satanism. We have had a lot of trouble with cases of religious persecution - but not the kind you might think. We have a Rennisance Festival here, and the rumor mill there is boringly predictable. Therefore you can't carry live steel.